Final Fantasy XIII News

Final Fantasy Versus XIII Director, Tetsuya Nomura decided to respond to angry fans on twitter about VERSUS platform status after the recent announcement of "Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 in Japan" just take a look below at what he has to say about it:

Quote: "Multiplatform is when you start development on a game with the assumption of optimizing for multiple platforms. Porting is something that's done after you've developed a game specifically for a particular platforms. The debate over porting is decided by the management based off the current market and the costs. All I can say right now as a developer is that Versus is being developed specifically for the PlayStation 3."

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Source:  The 3rd Birthday Twitter

FFXIII is being renamed "Final Fantasy XIII Ultimate Hits International" for its Japanese Xbox 360 debut. The game will arrive on December 16, priced at ¥4,980.

The "International" part of the name is explained by what exactly 360 owners will be getting on the disc. The 360 version will ship on three DVDs, the same as its overseas counterpart. The game will be playable exclusively with English voices. Subtitles will be freely selectable between Japanese, English and European languages. The theme song will be the overseas "My Hands" song from Leona Lewis.

Square Enix has announced just one content change for 360 owners. The game will include an "Easy Mode" which adjusts the balance of battle, making things easier for players who want to get through the whole story.

The other new features for the 360 version come in the form of a first print run bonus item, a booklet called "Final Fantasy XIII Corridor of Memory." This includes the following:

Visual Art Collection
A collection of all the high quality key visuals that were used domestically and abroad.

Final Fantasy XIII Unused Event Scenes
A look at event scenes that were cut from the final game. Square Enix has also included the script for these sequences.

Final Fantasy XIII Episode i
A newly created after story to the Final Fantasy XIII story, presented as a novel. The novel tells what happened to Lightning and all after the game.

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The official Japanese website has updated as well.

FFXIII Official Japanese Website

And thanks to Oji for the scans.


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With GamesCom a few weeks ago, the crew take the chance to discuss some of the information that was prised out of Yoshinori Kitase. Topics discussed are Versus XIII's release date, Final Fantasy XV's development time and a banned Final Fantasy XIII advert in the UK. Darryl is joined by Colin and KHU co-host Fozzie for this episode. Also be sure to check out the questions segment for some interesting responses.

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Gaming Union had an interview with Final Fantasy XIII Producer Yoshinori Kitase at GamesCom. While most of the interview revolved around The 3rd Birthday, they had some time to talk about Final Fantasy XIII, Agito XIII and Versus XIII. In the interview Kitase mentions that they can't commit themselves to a 2011 release date for either game, and he also explains why the development times seem to be increasing since the old days of the PS1.

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Hajime Tabata share more details regarding what will be shown at TGS, also he shared some development schedules, like 3rd Birthday team joining the Agito one to help finish Agito. Take a look at the translated tweets!

Quote: By the way, the Agito PV is very short but it looks really good. Please see it by all means possible! Get a glimpse of Agito's battlefield settings. @Tabata As for Agito event-scene, the real-time part is already considerably done. Moreover, the great attention and level of impressiveness to what we've already shown, the developers were like "The expression at which Agito aims is impossible on the PSP" To everyone's happiness it's coming on the PSP. @Tabata After 3rd is completed we'll shift things up a bit and 3rd team will join us to complete Agito. So time and wait are still necessary. There's an unpublished title in front of Agito that Tetsu talks about so much. Wait for information and announcement in a while! @Tabata As for both Agito and 3rd, Visual Works (VW) produces the High-End CG part. Each title footage and demonstrations are shown in monitors and everywhere. When I go to the VW Studio floor I just want to stay there and enjoy the moment, it's a treasurable space. @Tabata

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Source:  The 3rd Birthday Twitter

Tetsuya Nomura, director of Final Fantasy Versus XIII and character design of Agito XIII revealed Square-Enix plans for the games at Tokyo Game Show this year:

Quote: Well, we're in the midst of our domestic event and doing TGS preparations now. I was in the edit studio yesterday. All PVs have not yet been completed and are in edit stages as of now. Details will come next month even though there're alot of questions regarding TGS. @Nomura Basically, there will be specific revelations for Public View. The length of information disclosure will be different in each magazine and media. The following titles to open to the public are Re: Coded and 3rd. And little information about FABULA, on a short trailer Versus and Agito put together at this time. @Nomura The scale of the trailers are short though, there will be a space to show off FABULA and the trailers will be about 1 minute long. We will show footage of those 3 screenshots we release sometime ago at E3 time and move on to new realtime footage of Versus. @Nomura The footage alone is new to the public, doesn't have the command menus, which were removed. On the other hand, Agito footage is like a brand new debut of a more product-like version. Sorry for not being able to show little and nothing more, that's because the release date for both titles are still undecided @Nomura The priority of information disclosure is not decided by the announcement order but the release date one. The announcement timing is decided depending on the strategy of each title and the titles to be released are not always the ones who have been announced earlier. It's necessary to see how the team is progressing with development and the scheduling, that way it's inetivable not to have information disclosure and information exposure. @Nomura Thank you for everybody's attention and compreension. The PV editing for TGS is taking more time than we wanted it to. People won't be able to see them all in the public hall, that's more like a prevention since we're still examining when to open and give away information to the mainstream public on the internet. @Nomura

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Source:  The 3rd Birthday Twitter

Final Fantasy Agito XIII Director, Hajime Tabata tweeted about the game's ongoing development and focused on the game's graphics:

Quote: "I am suprised to have achieved a real-time quality of high level in development and when I play 3rd and Agito I realized it's far compared to Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, in which it's evolved from (the engine). With the PSP Hardware and the excellence of the development team we feel admiration for each other for the execelent work we're doing. @Tabata"

So it seems that Agito is the next best thing on the PSP after The 3rd Birthday. What do you think? Join us in the forum conversations!


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Source:  The 3rd Birthday Twitter

If you've been following The Third Birthday tweets from Square-Enix, you may have noticed that Nomura would be thinking about answering some questions about Versus.

Well, he's been getting his tweet on and so we've created a thread dedicated to everything he tweets about the game. How long will he do this for? Not sure. But thanks to the power of social networking websites, something tells me that those long dry periods of no news won't be so bad in the future since this is just one very good way of companies like Square-Enix to keep in touch with their fans and update them on news.

I mean... People tweeted that they wanted a higher resolution picture of Aya from The Third Birthday. Square-Enix listened to the fans and they got it! Perhaps this could happen with Versus too? :)

*Prays for a very large picture of Stella and that a size of 200,000px would be perfect! :p*

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Source:  The 3rd Birthday Twitter Account

For the first time in a while, it's been a dry spell for news. Even so, the crew still manage to talk about rumours for the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII in Japan and even discuss Tetsuya Nomura being forced to tweet. There are also so fun listener questions to go through in a show that saw the return of David and Lauren and also the introduction of Colin. Not to be missed, that's for sure.

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If you've been following The Third Birthday tweets from Square-Enix, you may have noticed that Nomura would be thinking about answering some questions about Versus.

Tetsuya Nomura revealed through a tweet today that both Versus and Agito are presently undergoing voice casting. He mentions that The 3rd Birthday's recording will end shortly and that next up is Agito.

Continuing on Versus, Nomura added, "There have been many questions regarding fields. It's not a completely open world. It's like the 2D FF games in HD. Although, in terms of looks, it's not a top-down view, it's like the screenshots that have been released. You'll move through the world from that view."

Nomura also tweets that Versus and Agito will not show up at Gamesom as well.

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