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Final Fantasy XII Pushes Envelopes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gotta-love-those-bunny-girls dept.

The anticipation surrounding Final Fantasy XII has resulted in Square/Enix's largest U.S. rollout for a title. Gamespot reports that 1.5 Million units were shipped to the country to meet demand. From the article: "Even if every last one of those copies has been sold, Square Enix still has a ways to go before the game duplicates the success it experienced overseas earlier this year. Final Fantasy XII has already racked up more than 2.4 million sales in Japan since its release there in March of this year." The game is pushing graphical as well as business envelopes; Kikizo has a feature talking with some of the game developers about the game's use of PS2 architecture. Essentially, the team says, FFXII is the best a game will ever look on the PlayStation 2.

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  1. Load Times by Drakin020 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    With this game pushing the PS2 to its limits. I am really curious as to how crazy the load times might be.

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  2. Re:of course it is the best now... by jpardey · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All that the next gen has to offer is stupid motion sensing controllers. Who really cares? Oh, wait, your sig...

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  3. Pushing the envelope? by chowdy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The only thing about FFXII that pushed the envelope was the main character's metal bra. What happened to character design since FF8?