First, the Shinjuku-based publisher re-confirmed that
Final Fantasy XIII is planned for worldwide release in sometime
in 2009. It also announced that
next March in Japan, a playable demo disc* for the PlayStation 3 FFXIII will be bundled with the Blu-ray edition of the computer-animated film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.
The demo disc will also include new high-quality
trailers of Final Fantasy Versus XIII, which remains a PlayStation 3 exclusive,
and Final Fantasy Agito XIII, a mobile game which is also now coming to the PlayStation Portable.
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In the video, director Motomu Toriyama didn't beat around the bush when Nomura asked him questions about the 360 FFXIII. Starting off, he reconfirmed that,
"We haven't changed the direction of the development. We're making the PS3 version first, and then porting to the 360 later." That means that since the game will be released simultaneously on both platforms in North America and Europe, the PS3 release will be held back in those territories until the 360 version is complete.
Furthermore, Toriyama also revealed that, as of July 29,
his team hasn't yet received the tools needed to begin work on the Xbox 360 version of FFXIII. "I'm telling them to not think about the Xbox 360 right now," he said. "We can think about it after the development kits arrive." The designer also reassured PS3 owners that the
game's quality would not suffer due to the 360 port.
"We aren't going to change any specifications [of FFXIII] because of the multi-platform announcement," he declared. "Right now, we're fully concentrating on the PS3 version."Judging by the video,
development on FFXIII seems to be in full swing, and the
remaining character designs are on schedule to be finalized in October.
The voice cast has already been chosen, and it
will be partially announced at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show, also in October.*Luckily, the wait looks like it will be worth it, as
Toriyama promised the demo will be quite large. Though he didn't divulge many details, he mentioned that
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Pa eto. Nadam se da se istinski fokusiraju na PS3 verziju. A i baš sam jučer krenio igrat FFX
