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

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Considering FF is making games for the PS2, and FF:CC for the GC, throwing the other console into the mix would be spreading themselves too thin.

Add that to the fact that a small minority of people in Japan actually own XBoxes, and it is hardly them shooting themselves in the foot: in fact, it is a sound business decision.

One final note: the PS2 and GC are run by Japanese companies. The XBox is not. Square has nothing to gain by developing for a non-Japanese company, and everything to lose (they would most likely alienate Sony and Nintendo by doing so).