Final Fantasy XIII dated for US/Europe News

That doesn't give me much time to complete number 12. Is 4 months long enough to get good at the game?

If it comes out earlier in the U.S. at least I can import it.

GOW, GT5 and FF13.... uh oh. And it seems jan and feb will be pretty busy too.

Wow, so speedy!

Apologies for the various updates. Video encoding for EGTV now.

Thats my 26th birthday present sorted for my missus then! :-D

Much sooner than I expected.

good news!!!! Looks like porting the game to x360 wasn't much of a challenge, Unless there's a catch, of course.

omfg leona and FF

just had a fangasm

It's rumoured it'll be the goriest Final fantasy yet.

They keep bleeding, they keep keep bleeding...

Just started disk two on FFVII, this should give me enough time!

Too many games in March :o)

leona fuckin' lewis

GamesProgrammer: Watch again then.

@Gamesprogrammer

Errr, the end of the video has a big zoom out to a full-screen caption saying 3. 9. 2010

So, every game has been moved to spring to avoid call of duty, and now they're all going up against final fantasy XIII?

Why do I suspect all these games that were delayed are going to get delayed again, to next xmas or something, just to avoid this. And some of those I wanted to play soon, too... :-(

@GreyBeard

It's out next September?!

@groovychainsaw: lol, alpha protocol will never be realeased if your theory is correct, then.

I call GT5 getting pushed to at least April. Also PS3 price drop to £199 for March.

ah the stupidity of using 2 forms of date (DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY). great job humanity.

Just had a listend to the LL song... hmm. Superficially, it sounds like a generic breakup song. At a stretch, and with an accompanying Final Fantasy storyline, I guess you could mine a deeper interpretation from it.

Oh well, no Engrish in the lyrics, at least =)

god i hate leona lewis, mute button will be on standby for whenever she warbles.

Day one ps3 purchase for me! Microsoft shall spend some amount of money on advertising this game wait and see!

/collapses

Spring 2010 is going to be insanely good. :)

Q1 really is getting stacked, I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few titles get pushed further back into the year.

This better be good never played FF12 but heard it's pretty awful.
This generation of RPG's on the consoles has been playable but been far form perfect compared to last gen or even the PSX era, only the DS has had the better all round RPG's so far.

Why choose leona lewis whats she gonna add to it!?

final fantasy XII is ace, tell em owl told ya'

Flicking through endless menus while having to listen to Leona Lewis? It's my workplace made into a game!

Do you think Leona Lewis will complete it before me?? I hope not :o(

I think I understand why she was punched a few weeks ago now...

Was planning on importing the US PS3 version. Guess there's no need now, really surprised to see we're getting it at the same time.

* yawn *

so its march or september? :P

Anyway i dont really care... never liked one final fantasy game yet

I would have loved to have been a fly on the ceiling at the meeting where they chose Leona Lewis's song. To know the thought process behind that. Probably would have fallen onto the ground, smiling at the pretty colours surrounding my claws.

The date at the end of the trailer is 09.03.2010.

If this is an American trailer (the "host" has an American accent, doesn't he?) then this will probably be the US date notation, meaning September 3, 2010.

Ok, I'm tired of the Lewis hate already, and I'm not even a fan.

@Bigglesworth
The fact that Coca-Cola was prominently visible in FFIX and Parasite Eve II irked me greatly, yet that doesn't mean I hate Coca-Cola. I simply don't like alien product placement in video games. They should have at least asked Lewis to produce a fully original, exclusive piece for the game.

This is a world away from product placement! Anyway, if the song fits the scene for which its intended (which no one knows any details of!) then everything's hunky dory.

What about Versus?


Thats the one im looking forward to..

Ooohh!!!

/dies from excitement

@Bigglesworth
As far as I can see, this is a product (a song) being placed inside another product (a game) which technically has nothing to do with the former as the one was produced independently from the other, without the video game in mind. Obviously, the producer of the song and the artist Leona Lewis are going to profit from this exposure inside a video game.

Also, it would be an enormous stroke of luck if this song, out of the box, is a perfect fit for this video game with assumable complexity. It's more likely that, unless the song will appear in the end credits only, the game has been adapted in function of the song. And that I don't like - I prefer custom songs, tailored to fit the game via symbiosis, and not the other way around. For example, the Snake theme tune in Metal Gear Solid 3 (halfway the game, as you're climbing up a sewer pipe) was simply brilliant and tailor-made for that sequence. Konami could have bought the intro tune to the latest Bond film and place it in there, yet they made something just right for the Snake.

With that said, Leona Lewis will not keep me from buying FFXIII, at least not while I still have working digits and a mute button :).

March my arse. My birthday's on 14th April, I reckon it could well be a perfectly timed 30th birthday present. Fuck me I'm 30 and still getting exited about an FF game. I'd never have thought that when I was playing FFVII when I was 17.

Maybe we'll eventually get some more details on the choice of theme. I know you have to take interviews and the like with a pinch of salt, but maybe they genuinely liked the song and thought it would be a good fit for the game. (Although they would obviously have been looking for a new song for the western release anyway)

It's a rather strange twist, but I'm alright with it.

@Emmit_Assassin
March my arse. My birthday's on 14th April, I reckon it could well be a perfectly timed 30th birthday present. Fuck me I'm 30 and still getting exited about an FF game. I'd never have thought that when I was playing FFVII when I was 17.

This made me smile :). I remember buying FFVII at the time and showing it at home, after which my father (not fond of the whole video game thingamajig) said, "I sure hope this will indeed be your "final" Fantasy". My response: "Don't worry, I'll quit as soon as the Resident Evil series ends".

Well, here I am, gradually regretting, but still holding onto, that statement for the time being :).

I am somewhat curious how this turns out but with FF XII being the first FF since VII that I didn't finish (and in the meantime I did finish X-2 and IV on GBA) coupled with all the crap SE put out for this gen, I'm not expecting much.

Who cares. Where the fuck is Dragon Quest IX is the question we all should be asking.

@VMerken
I will happily admit if I'm wrong here but from what I remember Coca-Cola was never IN the actual game, it was a collaboration between Square and Coca-Cola to do some commercials in Japan. I completed this game at least 4 times and don't remember seeing any product placement.

"Starting on March 6, 2000, Final Fantasy IX characters were used in a line of computer-generated Coca-Cola commercials. Figurines of several characters were also used as prizes in Coca-Cola's marketing campaign."

TGS: Final Fantasy IX
Characters Do Coke

If you know otherwise please feel free to prove me wrong.