Square Enix Announces Final Fantasy XII Delay

Posted by simoniker on Saturday November 1, 2003 @09:57PM from the later-means-better? dept.

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 by AtaruMoroboshi · 2003-11-02 00:20 · Score: 2, Interesting

Yeah, and, uh, how is Square going to make any money off of FF XII on xbox, when the Xbox is a total and utter failure in the Japanese market?

I suppose that FF XII being exclusive on the Xbox would cause an incredible number of Japanese to buy an Xbox solely to play it...

FF games tend to be in japan for a good 6 months at least before coming to America, simply because they take a lot of effort to translate. The amount of money spent on development of FF XII is probably huge as well. So I don't see FF on Xbox making any financial sense unless Microsoft gives Square an incredible amount of money.

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