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No Final Fantasy XIII until 2010?

  • Posted January 16th, 2009 at 04:46 EDT by
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According to Square Enix boss Yoichi "Imperial Hot" Wada, Final Fantasy XIII will not be released in western territories until Spring 2010.

Speaking in an interview with Rueters, Wada confirms that while Japan will be enjoying a 2009 release of Final Fantasy XIII, the game will not be arriving in the U.S. and Europe until at least Spring 2010. He also reiterated that the Japanese version of FFXIII will remain a PlayStation 3 exclusive.

Japan’s Famitsu magazine revealed earlier this week that the game would arrive in 2009, although following Wada’s comments this clearly only applies to Japanese territories as expected.

Stay tuned for more details as they progresses.

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  1. princevegeta1980

    • 11:51pm EST - January 15th, 2009

    Don't bother me, it can even come out later than this because unlike most people I dont have much time to play on my ps3 so I've still got plenty of great games to play in the meantime.

     

  2. A_Ninja

    • 12:03am EST - January 16th, 2009

    that is the Square-Enix that i know .... always releasing thier games late .... very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very ..... late 

    and ... damn u MS & SE ... its because of u we wont have FFXIII befor the end of 2009 i hate those S.O.Bs

  3. Maisan

    • 12:32am EST - January 16th, 2009

    release it in 2030...I don't care about the game anymore...geez

  4. Chiem

    • 12:40am EST - January 16th, 2009

    So versus will be released in 2011?

  5. Radha

    • 1:50am EST - January 16th, 2009

     so much for that "final fantasy 13 will come to 360" annauncement :P

    by the time it comes out it will be irrelevant

  6. Andronix

    • 1:54am EST - January 16th, 2009

    Yeah. Delayed until 2010 to allow time for a 360 version to be coded.

  7. RTs42

    • 2:26am EST - January 16th, 2009

    Yeah now we will have to wait antill 2010 to play FFX13 oh well atleast Tekken 6 wont get delayed antill 2010 hopefully

  8. Versus

    • 2:51am EST - January 16th, 2009

    dont know bout you guys, but ima learn me up some japanese and import the 2009 version!!

  9. pulga

    • 3:18am EST - January 16th, 2009

    A little bit more and they end up releasing this game when the ps4 comes out. I really hate when devs start the hype many but many years ahead than release.

  10. Kurupt-The-Don

    • 3:32am EST - January 16th, 2009

    dont give a f*** anymore..give it to MS..!!!

  11. Solrac

    • 4:16am EST - January 16th, 2009

    Ha i wasnt surprised by this move at all but hopefully we get Versus sooner

  12. markwesker

    • 5:05am EST - January 16th, 2009

    well doesnt bother me cause im not buying this game anymore.the delay from 2008 release is all for the 360 and theres plenty of amazing games now to not bother with ff13.in 2010 il be playing R3 anyway.

    looks like ps3 fans will be getting screwed again with ffversus13 since god knows when that will come out now. probly 2011-2012.

  13. UpolJoZelda5

    • 5:12am EST - January 16th, 2009

    I can wait. >-_-< I'm a patient man. "Good comes to those who wait"?

  14. sonny23

    • 6:45am EST - January 16th, 2009

    so....2010, after so many  delays i could of just learnt japanese and played the 2009 version since when I first heard about this game. They get it earlier just because they not making a 360 version? is that what this article is implying? so everyone gets it later, just because of some stupid simultaneous release!?

    ...Very upsetting, i know myself and many others have been looking forward to this for some time. I just don't know anymore...getting too ticked off ><"

  15. Oatmeal

    • 8:06am EST - January 16th, 2009

    damn a new playstation will be out be the time versus come out

  16. Dragoonlord

    • 9:00am EST - January 16th, 2009

    and versus??? damit...

  17. EFFORTLESS8

    • 9:25am EST - January 16th, 2009

    im not gonna buy it then

  18. willisc89

    • 9:40am EST - January 16th, 2009

     Guaranteed every person here who said they don't want it will still be buying it day 1. As will I!

  19. Neo_Aeon666

    • 1:18pm EST - January 16th, 2009

    @willisk89

    I won't lol by the time this crap comes out (all because of the stupid simultaneous release on 3gayness ( tick's me off so much i wna crush their b@llz with a nunchuk XD)) , it will be outdated graphically and totally won't be worth the wait and all the crap they are spitting on us (the lies and all). They just want to make sure to keep their Japanese pets in their pockets and they scr*w us NA and Europe users and gravely underestimate our will to kill.

  20. IONIXX

    • 11:34pm EST - January 16th, 2009

    ..i think i might know wats goin on, maybe square do feel bad tha they betrayed sony and the entire ps fanbase, so theyre giving the ps3 ver time to generate some buzz in japan, wich could in the end mean the game sold more on ps3 than it did on 360, cuz u guys know that when stuff like this happens, usually the WHOLE game gets delayed for the WHOLE world, just look at tekken 6, but i think that either way, karma is gonna slap SE up the the side of the head for betraying PS,....., u know i was so hyped for T6 i used to watch the trailer 4 it every day? when it was announced for 360 aswell, my hype for it just died there and then, iits the same for most people here to, most of u were very exited for XIII, but MS has crushed ur hype for the game, theyve ruined it for u, its not the same anymore, i started watching the versus trailer every day now, and even though my hype for it will stay 100%, all this could mean we wont see it until god knows when........but......... imagine if versus ended up getting finished and released befor US and EU saw XIII.........

  21. Potassium

    • 2:08am EST - January 17th, 2009

    Add that "Imperial Hot" guy as a bad character in the game please, so I can shoot him in the face with Lightning or Snow.

  22. 72aymond

    • 4:31pm EST - January 17th, 2009

    Well....that's a big spit in their fans faces.

  23. ciaza

    • 9:17pm EST - January 17th, 2009

    dude, so final fantasy was like: hey! lets hype up this game heaps and get everyone reall excited! then we tell them its not going be released for another year! that way everyone can forget about the hype and the game will sell worse then usual! AWESOME

  24. Dave-The-Rave

    • 9:58am EST - January 18th, 2009

    Would you idiots ever shup up !! If you don't like it, stay the heck out !!

  25. Neo_Aeon666

    • 12:27pm EST - January 18th, 2009

    @ Dave

    Lol well the best way to let SE know we all hate em to the bone is to talk about it no? If i could id flood their mailboxes with an infinite number of evil letters. They need to be punished for all their sins :P

     

    And the whole world needs to know SE are a bunch of lying D-bags :D

  26. TheWalkingDude

    • 6:11pm EST - February 7th, 2009

    The anger sharks are swimming in my head again.

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