Square Enix Announces Final Fantasy XII Delay

Thanks to GameSpot for their report that the eagerly-awaited Final Fantasy XII won't ship until at least April 2004 in Japan, according to Square Enix, who "updated its profit estimates for the full fiscal year, lowering that figure by almost 20 percent" as part of this news. The article points out that "two of [Square Enix's] major RPGs will [now] not be showing up until the company's next fiscal year", since Dragon Quest VIII [aka Dragon Warrior VIII] is already confirmed as shipping later in 2004, although a PlayStation 2 remake of Dragon Quest V has just been announced for this fiscal year in Japan. In more fortuitous news, the company also announced that "its TV toy game, Shinken Dragon Quest... [has] been selling beyond expectations in Japan."

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Re:Ideas: It's called FF for XBOX

[Anonymous Coward]

Most people who want to play GTA wouldve already got it on ps2 so who cares that its finally making its way to the xbox. and if you don't know the gta pack is coming out on ps2 too for the ones that havent got it yet.

Neither surprising nor disappointing...

[Thedalek]

Provided Kingdom Hearts II, Chain of Memories, Front Mission III, Front Mission First and Final Fantasy X-2 are all still on schedule. Square only has so many employees, after all.

Sure, call me a fanboy, but I've never seen a Squaresoft game crash, lockup, or otherwise glitch-out. Poor camera angles, sure. Superflous gameplay elements, absolutely (although I'm one of the very few people who actually enjoyed making Gummi ships in Kingdom Hearts. Flying them, not so much, but making them was actually enjoyable), but never a full-fledged bugs. Very few other companies put quite as much craftsmanship into their games.

Of course, I can't speak for Final Fantasy XI, owing to my longstanding disapproval of MMORPGs.

Take longer. No problem. Use the time to make it a better game. There's plenty of other good games coming out to counterbalance it. It's not like it's the only game that matters.