FFXIII will be delivered globally in "fresh state," says Square
- Posted August 11th, 2008 at 06:00 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 31 Comments
Square Enix’s Shinji Hashimoto has outlined the publisher’s goal to deliver the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII in a “fresh” state globally, highlighting the team’s efforts of reducing the time between the Japanese and western release of the hotly anticipated RPG.
Speaking with UK publication Play, Hashimoto commented, “Obviously, we announced the title for both the PS3 and 360, so in that sense we’re very excited to be able to appeal to a new user base ans to fans that are users of both PS3 and 360.”
“Another thing I’m excited about it that it’s traditionally taken about a year for localisation to take place, so the Japanese version can reach audiences around the world. But with this titles we’re focused on decreasing that time gap.”
“That means, right now, we’re not only involved in creating and developing, but also working hard to deliver the title in a fresh state to everyone in the world,” he added.
Final Fantasy XIII is currently scheduled for release in 2009, with a playable demo of the PS3 version available in the Japanese release of Final Fantasy: Advent Children Complete in March.
Comments
-
-
dannymadatgravity
- 6:28am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 2
lol just waiting for the TV adverts where it says Xbox and ps3 is in the corner in really small font
-
rexdeath |
rexdeath- 6:32am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 3
OK I'm not entirely sure what he means by 'fresh state' unless he means that they are continually improving the graphics because it's taking them 529 years to make the stupid game. What did he mean by FF:VII Advent Children COMPLETE??? Was the version I watched half finished or did they just call it that because it's going on blu-ray and it sounds 'cool'.
-
-
-
Large_Tonberry |
Jon_Bright- 7:11am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 6
To be honest, I'm looking forward to Versus XIII more.
-
-
PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 7:46am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 8
Sure,now that it's coming to the 360,they're bound to deliver on time.Just like they did with the FFs on ps2.....NOT!
-
-
BlueRevolvuR |
BlueRevolvuR- 8:52am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 10
its almost august 16. lets see what that FFVII ad was about.
-
Trojans24601 |
trojans24601- 8:53am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 11
Wait wait wait! The demo is only in Japan?! F**k that SE
-
Girugamesh |
Shidousha- 8:56am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 12
/sigh
Don't worry about trying to appeal to the PS3 fans on this one, we've already got our smack across the face.
Instead, focus on FF Vs. XIII, the only thing that may save any PS3 fans from still liking Square Enix at all.
Damn promise breakers....
-
FantasyStar |
Tirin- 8:57am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 13
Words are cheap. Especially from a company like Square-Enix.
-
El Penetrator
- 8:59am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 14
A fresh state? What do they think this is, a fuŃking fruit market? $quare €nix just keep losing more and more respect with each stupid statement they make.
-
Traveler1990 |
NightHawk17- 9:18am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 15
Now they wanna give out news like no tommorow(we couldnt get any info before the muliplat announcement) square is sad especially wada, i believe he's the one to blame;him and his fortune teller that he uses for business decisions(i'm still buying 13) though i believe...no scratch that I KNOW versus will be better GO NOMURA-SAN
-
thebossofbigboss |
daworks- 9:28am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 16
why is evrybody beefing with squareenix the same thing there doing to sony is the same thing they did to nintendo sqareenix needs money if we had more die hard ps3 fans they wouldn't have to go multiplatform
-
McGriddles |
McGriddles- 9:52am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 17
@ 16
In addition to FF13 going multiplatform square has given the 360 2 exclusives, i belive 1 is timed and will come out a year later. And SE's whole bull**** statement about how they want to be able to reach more users makes them hypocrites.
-
prodygee |
DennisProdygee- 10:12am BST - August 11th, 2008
- 18
That'll be the other way around, danny. But they have console-specific tv-ads so it differs every time. Good to hear that they're working on quicker localisation, I hated that during my wait on X and after. I don't think the voice acting would be any worse, because seriously.. do you need over 356 days to record some voices?
Don't firkin' blame SE for the multi-platform crap, MS had a truck of money ready to steal a part of SE for use on their side. SE was in a tight situation - meaning their budget. Ugh "they" must NEVER EVER get any other SE game on "that" thing. It's ugly.
-
-
jamisonsalamande
- 12:36pm BST - August 11th, 2008
- 20
What the h3ll is "fresh" even supposed to mean? He's just saying this to try and act like everything's going to be good and we should excited about this
-
-
RagingStorm |
RagingStormX- 2:59pm BST - August 11th, 2008
- 22
@ McGriddles
You couldn't be more wrong......its Tri-Ace (the developer) and not $E (the publisher), thats responsible for Infinite Undiscovery and Star Ocean 4 (timed exclusive...for now) being exclusive to the 360. So far, both FF13 and Last Remnant (which are developed and published by $E) are multiplat titles....and even though I my not like it, they are being true to thier words. (bastards >.<)
-
McGriddles |
McGriddles- 3:03pm BST - August 11th, 2008
- 23
^^^ ah, ok then. thanks for clearing that up. my appologies.
-
-
-
svtschmidt
- 7:24pm BST - August 11th, 2008
- 26
fresh 4 360, stale 4 ps3 is what it means....we are getting banished to the kid's table.
-
-
BlueDragoon0 |
Lionheart0- 12:53am BST - August 12th, 2008
- 28
I don't really get what he means by this...
-
-
-
Advertisement