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Final Fantasy XII Delayed

Posted by Zonk on from the bunny-girl-fix-will-have-to-wait dept.

Final Fantasy XII will be delayed in appearing on the PS2, and will miss the intially expected release date of Spring 2005. Gamespot has the story and the news that, on the upside, starting in April Square/Enix will be releasing a new game every month for several months. From the article: "Square Enix also plans to boost its worldwide sales. Currently, about 30 percent of Square Enix's game sales take place outside of Japan. Wada told Bloomberg that he hopes to increase that number to more than 50 percent."

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  1. Meh by Ayaress · · Score: 2, Funny

    So they want to raise their sales outside of the US. Let me know when they're ready to honor or refund my pre-order of Valkyrie Profile from four years ago.

  2. Fine With Me by blueZhift · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Heck, that's fine with me since I still haven't finished FF X and X-II anyway. Yeah, I play slowly, but it saves me money, $19.95 USD for each! So I can wait!

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  3. Game releases by Bloomy · · Score: 4, Interesting
    However, Wada said that starting April 1, Square Enix will release a new game every month.

    I wonder what that exactly means. Will Japan get a new Square Enix title every month, will each market (Japan, North America, Europe) get one, or will a new game be released in some location in the world each month, giving them the chance to count localizations of the same title more than once?

  4. I can beat you both :-) by Jerf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, you wanna play that game? Thanks to Dawn of Souls on the Gameboy, I'm still working my way through Final Fantasy. You see the lack of a Roman Numeral? That's because it's the first one.

    You can't beat that without leaving the series :-)

    (OK, it's a remake, but still...)

  5. A Game Every Month? by DLWormwood · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't know if that is really a good thing. I got burned on Unlimited Saga, which felt like they only spent a month to develop it. I've also seen other Squeenix titles "bargain bin" quickly, like Drakengard. (Though I admit to not playing that one...)

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  6. Riiiiight... by Guppy06 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "on the upside, starting in April Square/Enix will be releasing a new game every month for several months."

    And how many of those will be *ahem* real games instead of something they threw together over a weekend for the cell phone market?