FFXIII to hit Europe within a year of Japanese release
- Posted May 5th, 2009 at 10:09 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 42 Comments
Square Enix has said it hopes to have Final Fantasy XIII on shelves throughout European territories within one year of the game's Japanese release.
Speaking to Videogamer, producer Yoshinori Kitase reflected on the length of time between U.S. and European localisation of past iterations in the series, before adding that the firm is looking to speed up the process for FFXIII.
“Obviously we would like to release it over here as soon as possible,” he said. “Traditionally the Final Fantasy numbered series, it takes about half a year between the release in Japan and the release in North America, and another half a year before it’s released in Europe. But we would like to minimise this, this time.”
“For example we have already started recording English voices, and also the text localisation has been in progress, too. Normally we complete the Japanese version first, then move on to the US and EU versions, but this time there are some tasks that are happening simultaneously. So this time we’re hoping to release sooner than a year later than the Japanese release.”
So, if all goes well, PAL gamers can expect to get their hands on the game by Christmas 2010 at the very latest. We’re counting down the days.
[Editor's Note: The original source is Videogamer.com, not VG247.com. This has been remedied within the article.]
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DarkVincent07 |
DarkVincent07- 10:11am BST - May 5th, 2009
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wow... End of next year at the latest.
Ive stopped caring too much myself, it was announced WAY too soon -
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Bitbydeath |
Bitbydeath- 10:18am BST - May 5th, 2009
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Awesome-o, would be better if they just gave the english speaking countries the same version as the US so they can be released at the same time and released it to all the others after.
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Sonyfanboy-uk |
Bloodfang-UK- 10:27am BST - May 5th, 2009
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since all ps3 games are region free looks like ill be importing the US version as i aint waiting that long
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C-Carcharias |
C-Carcharias- 10:49am BST - May 5th, 2009
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pretty much over this game. I might get interested again in 12 months.
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matilda_bbd
- 10:53am BST - May 5th, 2009
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man.. they could've released the demo a month or two before the official release for a hype boost.. all they do is spoiling all the hype.. i mean seriously.. who cares about this anymore?
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Aizen-Sama
- 10:58am BST - May 5th, 2009
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@Comment 5
Because this takes a crap load longer to localise, much much bigger game and script, much more text to translate and every single NPC in the game is voiced, FF games have a ton of NPCs
They have also most likely started to port the 360 version now to parts of the game that are complete.
I will import the US version anyway :D'
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CardinalSimons
- 11:29am BST - May 5th, 2009
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Promises, promises.
I hope Atelier Rorona comes sooner
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Aizen-Sama
- 12:00pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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Europe usually gets things later because of all the other countries, if only games could release in US and the UK at the same time an then release to the other surrounding countries in europe later.
Instead of delaying it for the UK.
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nickrobbins |
nickrobbins- 12:07pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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i'm thinking more and more that this will be as disappointing as ffxii on ps2 :
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Dave-The-Rave |
Dave-The-Rave- 1:05pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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Well I'm just gonna be importing the American copy like I did with Crisis Core
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SpyroViper
- 1:33pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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Well that settles that, another year. Bored, I won't be bothered with this game in a years time..
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UpolJoZelda5
- 1:56pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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You know, I did play the NA version of FFXII on ps2
way before it was released here in the uk on Feb 2007.
Looks like i might have to do the same routine again with FFXIII lol
end of 2010? I predict it will be shipped much more earlier then that, maybe in summer 2010? :/
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Skyesapaart |
Skyesapaart- 1:59pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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Couldnt care less tbh, for XIII or verses. Im not waiting years for release of a game thats atmosphere just gonna mirror 12. Game is a joke, square are a joke, anyone still think its gonna be something speacial is living in denial or is a graphic wh ore. Plenty other games out that deserve your 60 quid. Square go back making trash for 360 plz, ur time is up.
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Solrac |
Solrac7688- 2:43pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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I do agree that square is taking too long to make this game and I for one will be getting both FF13 and Versus, and for those of you talking smack about square can STFU cause honestly without them FF7 would not exist, They are the best at what they do and that is making RPG's, so take it easy
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Skyesapaart |
Skyesapaart- 3:24pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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stfu? lol. One game made over 12yrs ago by squaresoft ant enough redeem square-enix for last 5-8ys of shi t games, delays and quite frankly abandoning there fanbase, if you think that please let me know what your smoking.
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UpolJoZelda5
- 6:08pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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@30
If they did release FFXIII worldwide-altogether-propaganda-it-be-phenominal! So much fun!
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Aizen-Sama
- 7:03pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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It's funny reading these comments, WKC is releasing in NA a YEAR after it released in Japan and yet no one complains about that
Hmmm i wonder why, oh wait it's exclusive.'
Retarded fanboy's.
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Bigdoggy |
Gypscrew- 10:17pm BST - May 5th, 2009
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SE, I'm sorry, you guys really bite, I'm done. I wont purchase this game, I am just to heavey in the FPS multiplayer aspect of this game. Sony, please come out with an MMORPG. FF is definitely not the best, I have played better RPG's. I highly doubt the armor will change if you even get armor. good quality video's, cheap self characters. I really don't care anymore about this game, it's dead to me.
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lonnie9036
- 1:26am BST - May 6th, 2009
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That's just retarded, I'm really dissatisfied with Square/Enix. It would be better if the company spit up, Enix at least did things in a timely fashion.
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The Mask |
JSack20- 2:58am BST - May 6th, 2009
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ha this is one of the reasons im learning japanese (the main reason being my interest in anime and Japan itself) which remids me i've got till around Christmas to be be at least semi-fluent so i can understand the plot (i can still complete it even if i don't understand the story but it would be less interesting) I found that from importing Crisis Core i can see what's going on but i don't know why.
@37 what game are you talking about? This is About Final Fantasy XIII not some FPS with armour and multiplayer. Also i don't think Sony will get your Message, maybe you're confusing this with MAG?
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supamariobrotha |
supamariobrotha- 5:02am BST - May 6th, 2009
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honestly unless you live in japan how could you be excited about this damn game who cares about this game anymore i think this game will have bad sales when it hits the u.s. because people will either stop caring or forget about it because it takes this S**T SO F**KING LONG TO RELEASE!!!!!!!!
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MatrixSixaxis
- 5:55pm BST - May 6th, 2009
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I wasn't expecting anything different, that was the period I was expecting them to deliver it outside of Japan. So long as quality isn't compromised.
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