So, Yoichi Wada has told the world that the Western world won't see Final Fantasy XIII until 2010.

Thoughts about this?

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Twitter: @DarrylGU

Expected. Final Fantasy's *always* seem to get delayed.

I think Final Fantasy X was the rare case where it released before 2002, though.

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Shawn Collier
Software Engineer | Associate Editor

I wouldn't be surprised if they mean fiscal year 2009 for Japan as well, and they release it about February or March 2010 there. As for Europe and America, I certainly expected this, and I would be surprised if its out in the west by next April. Europe especially will have no chance...

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I'm not sure. I think that because of the whole 360 development time thing, they "could" get the localisation for Europe done at the same time.

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Twitter: @DarrylGU

Ha. It is possible, but this is Square Enix we're talking about, remember. xD

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Bit of a pain really, but I agree that it was kinda expected still I think we had hopes that it wouldn't be quite so far off.

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No FFXIII until 2010, uh? That's a fatal blow to us poor gamers.
I didn't tell my friend this, she was soo looking forward to FFXIII, I didn't have the courage to shatter her hopes of having it released this year.
As for me, I kinda expected it, so I'm a little disappointed, but oh well!
Only, I hope when this comes out it doesn't reveal itself to be a delusion like FFXII was. At least for me.

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I seem to remember back in the PS1 days you could tell how good an RPG was going to be by A) How many discs it spanned and B) how long it was delayed

if only that had proved to be the case for Star Ocean 3 XD

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This wasn't that big of a surprise for me when I heard the news, in fact I've said to myself that it'll be perfect timing for me if FFXIII is released in 2010 simply because I won't finish military service until then and I'd rather play it when I have time to dedicate instead of playing it bit by bit over weekends...which would suck.

I just hope that they use all that time wisely and polish up the game and story! However, just looking at the latest screens from Famitsu, the game seems to be pretty damn kick ass already.

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It always kicked ass. I'm not so sure about Sazh, but meh, I'll warm to him. By the time its released I'll love him. xD

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