Final Fantasy XIII officially a 2010 game, says gigantic E3 billboard

There's no hope for a late 2009 release for Square Enix's hugely anticipated PS3 and Xbox 360 RPG.

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Final Fantasy XIII officially a 2010 game, says gigantic E3 billboard

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Nothing like getting the "official" story from the horse's sister's cousin's uncle's do-ragged super-sized mug. In this case, the story in question isn't a total shocker: Final Fantasy XII, North American version, coming in 2010, per this pre-E3 L.A. billboard advertisement.

But it is kind of weird to get the news this way, no formal press statement, no real interaction on Square Enix's part with the press, just a teaser post on the company's blog. It's kinda like, "Come on, you knew this, yeah? You're psychic, right?" Just like we'll all know when the game's been delayed until 2011.

What we do seem to know, nothing paranormal involved, is that the game is coming in Japan later this year, and that it's long been suspected the North American version would take the backseat. Looks like that currently MIA January Reuters/Guardian story that had Square Enix pegging the game for sometime post-April 2010 was probably legit.

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THE VERDICT by Sid Shuman Sid Shuman's Avatar

Hardly a surprise here, but it sounds like the Japanese PS3 version may make late 2009. Import? :-)

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weinymew

cool. now if they come out with an action rpg version too, that would be awesome too.

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The12P

JPThunder01 wrote:

The character on the billboard reminds me too much of Owen Wilson...

He also kind of looks like Edge from the WWE.

monkbaine

JPThunder01 wrote:

The character on the billboard reminds me too much of Owen Wilson...

Chuuuch! lol

playamp3

weinymew wrote:

cool. now if they come out with an action rpg version too, that would be awesome too.

They are, Final Fantasy versus XIII, but that so far is only confirmed for PS3

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eday_2010

How many people are going to get tired of waiting and lose interest before this game actually comes out? Seems like I have been hearing about XIII for an eternity.

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