SquareEnix Confirm Final Fantasy XII, Sales Figures

Thanks to the Gaming-Age messageboard conglomerate for pointing out a new investor relations press conference (Japanese text only) held today in Japan by SquareEnix. They announced that Final Fantasy XII is intended to ship within the fiscal year in Japan - still no screenshots or details, though. Kingdom Hearts 2 is still having its license negotiated, so won't be out soon. But 9 titles should ship in the US from SquareEnix this fiscal year, including Final Fantasy X-2, which has already sold almost 2 million copies in Japan, and a mystery, solitary Playstation 1 title (another Final Fantasy remake?) The company also gave sales figures for their online title, Final Fantasy XI, which has sold 340,000 copies, and currently has 250,000 subscribers, even ahead of its Western release.

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[Anonymous Coward]

"Final Fantasy XI (FFXI) is the first ever Online RPG of its FF series. The network world is called Vana'diel, which the player itself will be the "character" of the game, to solve the myths and to beat the monster with unity of your party members, you are able to play the game freely with your own style."

That sounds fucking awesome, solving myths and beat the monster with unity of party members. Maybe we'll get to pilot a 'Zig' too.

"By mastering various "Jobs" you will be able to have the "Job Ability" of that specific job."

Hello Everquest? Are you paying attention?

"What's special about Online RPG is the feature of "Communication" with other players."

I am sold. I thought myth solving and unity was enough, but here we also get something called "Communication". How mysterious and intriguing.

Note to self: Get someone who speaks Japanese if I ever plan on marketing anything in Japan.

Re:Why the oldies?

[Daetrin]

The D-pad hurts your thumb if you use it too long.

You wuss!

Back in my day we had to bang big rocks together in order to tell the characters what to do, and we liked it! And in the snow even!