All the (Final) Fantasy One Could Want in One Day

Daetrin writes "The Magic Box is reporting that Square Enix will be releasing both Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Final Fantasy X-2 in America on the same day. Perhaps they figure any Americans who can afford both a PS2 and a GameCube should also be able to afford putting down the cash for both games at the same time? Usually competing against yourself isn't the best business plan." Square Insider also confirms this. I'm a huge Final Fantasy nut, and I have both a GameCube and a PS2, but I'm sure I don't have the time to play both games simultaneously, and I bet there's a lot of people who fall into this same category.

Comments

The date, in case you were wondering...

[devnull17]

...is November 3.

Re:Could be wich to fund in the futur

[devnull17]

Not likely. Development teams don't determine things like this. Marketing departments do, and most companies I know of have only one of those. Thank god for that. (:

Tactics for GBA!!!!

[heldlikesound]

Anyone else more excited about FF Tactics being released for the GBA?

Crystal Chronicles for me

[egomaniac]

I have both a PS2 and a GameCube, and for me there is no contest. Crystal Chronicles is realtime, multiplayer, and the art style is absolutely fantastic. The whole dynamic of virtually requiring constant verbal communication between players should be a refreshing change of pace from most multiplayer titles.

If you have a significant other who plays games, a GameCube, and two GBAs, you owe it to yourself to pick this game up when it comes out.

Re:Crystal Chronicles for me

[Bagels]

Though I agree about Crystal Chronicles being the best for me, seeing as I am a Nintendo fanboy, I can't see the same going for the majority of gamers out there. Not many people have a GameCube, let alone a GameCube, two GBAs, and the requisite GBA-to-Cube link cables. Even the most hard-core FF fan may have trouble justifying over $300 in hardware to play the game properly. Meanwhile, FFX-2 will likely sell far better, because it's a) for the PS2, which has a far larger installed userbase and b) it's a sequel to an already very popular game - on the one hand, it's more of the same, but on the other hand that is apparently what most FF fans want.

Nintendo Publishing Crystal Chronicles

[Babbster]

It may not be relevant to the story, but actually the release date of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles was determined by Nintendo of America as they are handling the publishing/distribution of that game - along with Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Sword of Mana for the GBA - in North America.

Argh!

[moc.tfosorcimgllib]

Must...buy...second...tv...become...ambidexterous. ..talk...like...shatner

head...exploding...joy...

boohoo

[cheezus]

I'm a huge Final Fantasy nut, and I have both a GameCube and a PS2, but I'm sure I don't have the time to play both games simultaneously, and I bet there's a lot of people who fall into this same category.
Buy one, play it. Then buy the other; it will probably drop in price after a while anyway.

sheesh.

Bad link

[phorm]

The first link to Square Insider should be non-hyphenated. The article link was correct, however.

How is this competition?

[Man In Black]

They're for two different systems, I fail to see any huge competition problem. Sure, there are a relatively small amount of people with both, but so what? They're two very different games for two different systems.

And as people have already pointed out, you don't have to buy both at once. Just because you like a game doesn't mean you have to buy it the nanosecond it becomes available, sheesh.