Final Fantasy XIII dated for Japan

  • Posted September 7th, 2009 at 19:06 EDT by Mike Harradence
  • 25 Comments

Square Enix has pencilled in Final Fantasy XIII for release in Japanese territories on December 17, 2009.

Apparently, the release date was scheduled to be unveiled at an event in Tokyo tomorrow. It’s worth noting that Xbox 360 owners won’t be getting the game in Japan, with Square’s release date announcement pertaining to the PlayStation 3 version of the hotly anticipated RPG.

Final Fantasy XIII is due out in North America and Europe in Spring 2010.

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  1. Majin187 | Majin187

    • 7:07pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    how about versus dammit

  2. jakster123x | jakster123x

    • 7:08pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    well that must be a bummer for the Tokyo event lol, totally took their thunder now, good old leaks eh?

  3. micromagic | micromagic

    • 7:11pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    Dec 17th, sounds like good timing. Should boost PS3 sales now that the release date is tied down.

  4. KH_Fan01

    • 7:13pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    I BUY THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

  5. Dreck

    • 7:13pm BST - September 7th, 2009

     Xmas PS3 sales -> 1000000000000000000% up O.O

  6. byoushinn | Byoushinn

    • 7:14pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    @Jakster - they were planning on revealing the release date on wednesday as 'premiere party' - it was never scheduled as a TGS reveal

    At TGS they'll probably have a massive cinematic trailer full of new content 

  7. X-Men_Wolverine

    • 7:24pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    Can Europeans just import it and play it good on a SD tv?

  8. geostar | geostar8

    • 7:50pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    Finally!  Next spring for the rest of the gaming world?  I hope.

  9. killakevmiket | kmtburton

    • 7:51pm BST - September 7th, 2009

     to bad not coming to US this year but i probably wouldnt have got it anyway since ill be spending all my time playing Demons Souls, Borderlands, Alpha Protocol and Dragon Age Origins 

  10. Aizen-Sama

    • 8:00pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    @7

    You can import it and it should work fine but they did confirm that the game will be releasing in Europe the same time as America (Spring 2010)

    The demo looked considerably worse in SD and looked a lot sharper colour contrast and clarity wise in HD. 

    Check out the comparisons here-

    http://www.psu.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4527307&postcount=2906


     

  11. Kazuya10

    • 8:46pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    holy **** that was unexpected.

    PS3 hardware numbers are going to be unprecedented in Japan when it releases and I expect the game will sell over 1 million the week of release in the region alone.

    I cannot wait =)

  12. kreepmode | kreepmode

    • 8:58pm BST - September 7th, 2009

     With this and GT5 releasing in the same month...holy crap!

  13. qmoney88

    • 9:06pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    sickness hopefully theyll have a solid release date for na soon too, although i doubt they will til next year.  I wish i could speak and read japanese...

  14. x9TALED_GUNDAMx

    • 9:52pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    im not a fanboy buy FF should be PS3 exclusive

  15. BloodReign | newolman

    • 10:06pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    I wish I was Japanese, they always get games first :S

  16. Pledius

    • 10:32pm BST - September 7th, 2009

     I hope Sony announces surprise NA and Europe release date as Dec. 20, 2009

    GOD I would soooooo love that

  17. higgos22

    • 10:35pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    ps3 exsclusive in Japan its gonna surely move some units

  18. restored_lost | Restored_lost

    • 11:21pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    woot  i know when to come to these boards for spoilers now!

  19. newjaruz | Capo_05

    • 11:39pm BST - September 7th, 2009

     which means GT5 will release in later November on the 17th or 24th

     

     

  20. Versus

    • 11:46pm BST - September 7th, 2009

    now if only they would announce that the JP version would have english subtitles we'b be going somewhere heh.

  21. MavSkipper | MavSkipper

    • 2:38am BST - September 8th, 2009

     That's my b-day :)

    Too bad I can't read japanese.

  22. vietguy1127

    • 9:26am BST - September 8th, 2009

    december huh and they said that they were decreasing the gap between japanese and american release. spring is from april until somtime in june correct? the usual gap is 6 months right so if the game let's say releases in june that'll be six months. that is not a decrease then.

  23. TheTenth666 | TheTenth

    • 9:51am BST - September 8th, 2009

    dec 09 in Japan, and spring 10 USA and Europe? less than 6 months for regionalisation? seriously doubt that

  24. NDGO | ndgo

    • 11:35am BST - September 8th, 2009

    now at tgs i predict they will anounce that it will be released on 360 in japan and versus is also getting a port. but nothing on a 360 versus.

  25. Phyx06 | Phyx06

    • 11:40am BST - September 8th, 2009

    Thursday...great. pff.

    I'm going to buy that on saturday.(if not sold out =P)

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