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Final Fantasy XIII gets EU and US launch dates

The Lost Gamer writes "Square Enix had promised to make a big announcement today regarding Final Fantasy XIII, and towards the end of the newly released trailer have unveiled exactly what fans within both Europe and America have been waiting for - it's release date."

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wotta - 27 days 1 hour ago

1 - Thats me he's replying too

Im famous and I also posted it on my own site in Alt stories above. :)

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clmcavoy2000 - 27 days 1 hour ago

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does anyone know if anyone can play it or just online gamers

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Aquarius - 27 days 1 hour ago

1.2 - @Ravage27 2.5

true this game should be resembling FFVII Advent Children in the graphics department.

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Oldsnake007 - 27 days ago

1.3 - Overload

GT5, GOW3, FF13, BFBC2. Holy Sh*t, March 2010 is gonna be awesome.

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Saaking - 27 days ago

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GOWIII, Alan Wake, and FFXIII in ONE month. Wow.

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UltimateIdiot911 - 27 days ago

1.5 - cimcav

It's a single player game.

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Ashriel - 26 days 23 hours ago

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@Saaking

Wasn't Alan Wake for May?

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FACTUAL evidence - 26 days 20 hours ago

1.7 - UMMM

please tell me that wasn't september 3rd 2010...it says march on the page, but we read, month,date, year.......so ummmm yeah.

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ABizzel1 - 26 days 20 hours ago

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Saaking if I remember correctly, Alan Wake comes out May 2010, but I still agree too much stuff in March.

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velcry - 26 days 19 hours ago

1.9 - The Inevitable Question:

Which platform you guys getting it for? After ALL the smack talk from both sides over the last few months, when it comes down to it, I wonder which platform it's going to sell better on.

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BaseballFan15 - 26 days 18 hours ago

1.10 - @velcry

It will probably sell better on PS3. I predict FF to be #2 on PS3 and #4 on 360 for March sales.

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randomwiz - 26 days 16 hours ago

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March 2010 will go down as one of the best gaming months is years.

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Lucreto - 27 days 1 hour ago

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I was hoping for an earlier date than that. What is up with the big announcement on the Blog?

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sikbeta - 27 days 1 hour ago

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Well, at least is something or It could be even worse XP

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vhero - 27 days 1 hour ago

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would have been out mid 2009 if it wasn't for 360 launch.

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MAiKU - 27 days 1 hour ago

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Well considering it's final fantasy, i'm just grateful it's not like a half a year to a whole year later. 3 months after the jp release isn't so bad. It's still coming out in December for japan right?

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Aquarius - 27 days 1 hour ago

2.4 - "an earlier date"

thats really quick considering its only 3 months after the Japanese Launch.

EDIT: @ MAiKU, took the words right outta my mouth.

GOWIII
GT5 should be in January/Feburary
FFXIII

Too many AAA titles at once LOL.
We don't want an October in our hands every month in 2010.

Heavy Rain
AGENT
The Last Guardian
These will probably me in Q4.

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Ravage27 - 27 days 1 hour ago

2.5 - i could have been playing this already...

had a certain console not exist....

Looks like i have to skip this. Was planning to get it, but with GOW3 and GT5 releasing on the same month, i probably won't have enough $$$/time for FF13.

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Lucreto - 27 days 1 hour ago

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Games off the top of my head from Janurary.

MAG, Bioshock 2, WKC, Star Ocean, GT, Heavy Rain, God of War 3, God of War collection (EU),Mass Efect 2.

They expect us to get FF after all those games and there are still all the games out before Christmas.

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TapiocaMilkTea - 27 days ago

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Why are people showing no excitement over this?!
It's March 2010, less than 3 months after a Japanese release! No NA/EU Final Fantasies ever released so close the Japanese release. EU fans should go crazy over this since they usually get it a year later.
I am extremely happy if they stick to this date, I was expecting around September 2010 and June 2010 if we're lucky.

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Noctis Aftermath - 27 days ago

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No excitement? well that is cause they made a countdown to something that showed a release date to what most people were expecting anyway.

I'm glad it isn't any later, but these countdowns are pissing me off, they reveal either something crap or some bit of information that has been floating around for months.

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ShinnokDrako - 27 days 1 hour ago

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So this was the BIIIGGGG announcement?
March 2010?
Mh... i preferred something else but over all i hoped in a January release. Wow, SE became crappy even about announcements...
About the languages of the PS3 version (Jap), is there the english too or it's only japanesE? Otherwise i could import =P

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vhero - 27 days ago

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Jap only mate :(

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Noctis Aftermath - 27 days ago

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I can't click on the "special announcement" on the ff13 site, but anyway the release date wasn't suprising, i was expecting march well before this announcement, but with the countdown i was thinking it may have been in jan or feb.

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Redempteur - 26 days 22 hours ago

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The true question is ... I WANT my japanese voice on the PS3 version ...

And i have not indication for either WKC or FF13...

i'm still sad ..

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jack_burt0n - 27 days 1 hour ago

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Q1 is now officially insane, its bigger than Q4 09. Sony need to get WKC out the door now just release it before xmas get some holiday sales.

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Noctis Aftermath - 27 days ago

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WKC doesn't look like it is anything special, if it tries to compete with FF it will get crushed and sony can only blame themselves.

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TapiocaMilkTea - 27 days ago

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I don't know what they're doing with WKC. They take way too long for an American release, I guess they deserve to have their thunder stolen by other big releases.

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jack_burt0n - 27 days ago

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as far as other jrpg's this gen WKC is a big title and the new online features look good but yes they are essentially killing it by putting it within 3 months of the FF.

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PLAYSTATIONGENRATION - 26 days 23 hours ago

4.4 - Crazy

WKC looks like a Rpg why as final fantasy looks like a action game

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Bodyboarder_VGamer - 26 days 20 hours ago

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WKC was released in December 28, 2008 on Japan.

Can you believe that? A year later and we're still waiting... LoL

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MattyF - 27 days 1 hour ago

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Nice. Not a long wait.

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TheBand1t - 27 days 1 hour ago

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What the crap is with all the big name titles coming out in the first half of 2010?

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vhero - 27 days ago

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they tried to get em out in time for christmas but obviously failed.

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Luna Valhalla - 26 days 17 hours ago

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A lot of them were delayed on purpose to avoid MW2 I think

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Lindenn - 27 days 1 hour ago

7 - English FFXIII Theme

I honestly hope they dont remove the original singer and song from the game to replace her with a english song.

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jack_burt0n - 27 days 1 hour ago

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leona lewis lol

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Azurite - 27 days ago

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If you can't change everything to the original language it's a no-buy for me.

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riksweeney - 27 days ago

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If they put that crappy warbling singer in the UK version I will not buy it.

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Lindenn - 27 days ago

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I'll still play but i'll have died a lil inside from the loss of the awesome Kimi ga irukara song ; ;

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TapiocaMilkTea - 27 days ago

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The Japanese theme song isn't much, but an English theme song can still do a lot worse from past experience.

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Noctis Aftermath - 27 days ago

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Edit: http://uffsite.net/news/278... is the song, it isn't bad so i retract my previous statement.

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Lindenn - 26 days 23 hours ago

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The song isnt bad, but I'd still prefer the Original song. If both are included into the game then BONUS! I still hope for Dual audio.

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Gothdom - 26 days 23 hours ago

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The original song feels much more like FF... This new song makes me feel like when I finished Castlevania SotN.

I don't like it one bit... What's next, Celine Dion?

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Noctis Aftermath - 26 days 22 hours ago

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I can only hope for dual audio, but with square enixs hand in microsofts pocket i doubt we will see it even though it is fairly easy for them to implement in the ps3 version, i agree that the song doesn't feel like a ff song but it could have been worse, and seeing how some of the eng voice actors are really bad this isn't on top of my list of things to critisize.

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fffan9391 - 26 days 20 hours ago

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The Japanese theme is so great I don't understand why they would replace it. It would be okay if they rewrote it in English, but come on.

What's up with all the Japanese developers trying to cater to the west? It didn't matter in the past and they still got plenty of fans, why should it matter now?

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Ceekay - 26 days 18 hours ago

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I think Leona Lewis in FF is awesome. More games should do things like this.

If people want the japanese theme, why not import?

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matta - 27 days 1 hour ago

8 - derp

09-03-2010 is the EU/US release date for FFXIII.

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Omega Zues - 27 days 1 hour ago

9 - Yeah no kidding.

March is going to be hell. GoW3, GT5 and now this. WTH, March is going to be a month to remember!!!

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Ravage27 - 27 days 1 hour ago

9.1 - Sony should advertise their games like crazy from Feb to March

GT5,GOW3,WKC,HeavyRain,MAG,Bio shock2,StarOcean4,FF13 and ModNationRacer

Something for everybody.

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Aquarius - 27 days 1 hour ago

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BOTS first AAA title in years.

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Ninji - 26 days 23 hours ago

1.1 - lol, wut?

I guess you don't know what "AAA" means. Unless you're being off-topic as this article is about FF13.

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YLOD Service Tech - 27 days 1 hour ago

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This game will be superior on the 360. Mark my words.

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Queers of War - 27 days ago

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You gotta pray harder than that for something to be that absurd to come true.

1 BluRay disc, no installs, PS3 lead console, nuff said.

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MichaelJackson - 26 days 8 hours ago

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It's funny that you still have 5 bubbles and your full of stupidity.

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DelusionalMsBot - 27 days 1 hour ago

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I have pre-ordered my 6 DVD set for my 360

HAHAHAHAHAHA

poor droids

I get the BEST version

Droids get the gimped version on 1 bluray disk LOL!!!

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Aquarius - 27 days 1 hour ago

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you name suites your perfectly.

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CernaML - 27 days ago

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"-you- name suites -your- perfectly."

Bwahahahaha.

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Aquarius - 27 days ago

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lol didn't realize why you were laughing, as I had to quickly go out.

I was going to change it but its nice being a human being which makes mistakes ;)

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Dirk Benedict - 27 days ago

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I'll be playing it before March. I'll have a beta code for Final Fantasy XIV too. What now bots?

Where is your beta code? And before you say we're beta testing for you, look at the flopbox track record and the fact that Final Fantasy XIV is on the PC too.

Choose your spin wisely and don't forget

flop in.

http://favoniangamers.files...

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the_peoples_champ - 27 days ago

4.1 - Wow @ the image

I thought the MGS 4 version was worse xD

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spinbot_lv1 - 27 days ago

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how many dvds for the xbox360 version? 5-6? how many times you must swap dvds for quests? 100-200?

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godslayer429 - 27 days ago

6 - sales sales sales

who wants to bet this SELLS MORE copys on ps3

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dkgshiz - 26 days 23 hours ago

6.1 - of course it will

FF 12 is a ps3 exclusive in japan. Thats were FF sells the most anyways. Who cares though.

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spinbot_lv1 - 26 days 23 hours ago

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1,5 million day one in jap of course ps3 version.anyway jap don't like garbage microsoft products.with FFXIII skyrocket ps3 sales.then by the end of this fiscal year march 2010 ps3 worldwide > xbox360

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MichaelJackson - 26 days 8 hours ago

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Japan = RPG Crazy.

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Ninji - 26 days 23 hours ago

7 - lol coming out in March? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

This mediocre game will be overshadowed by God of War 3. Looks like S-E has just been full of dumbass decisions.

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bigcheda - 26 days 16 hours ago

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confirmed march = gaming bliss

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