Hope floats: Final Fantasy XIII may come to Europe "sooner than a year after Japan" |
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There's hope after all for European gamers to get Final Fantasy XIII (PS3, Xbox 360) sooner. You can credit this optimism to Square Enix game producer, Yoshinori Kitase, as he said yesterday that it might actually come "sooner than a year later."The gauge point for this window would be the Japanese release of the much-awaited iteration of the FF franchise. Usually, it takes about a year and a half for a game to arrive in Europe after the initial launch in Japan. But this time, Kitase said:
Obviously we would like to release it over here as soon as possible. Traditionally the Final Fantasy numbered series, it takes about half a year between the release in Japan and the release in North America, and another half a year before it's released in Europe. But we would like to minimise this, this time.
In fact, they've already started recording English voices, as well as the localization, he further revealed. It's probably helping that they're doing some task simultaneously, whereas they would only take care of things one at a time before.
"We would like to make the gap as short as possible," he said. That's what everyone would want, too.
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I hate this! Why does it take sooo long for it to be released in Europe? It should really be released in the UK before USA as the UK and Japan have the same region code. I thought it'd be easier and quicker to release it in Japan, translate it to english, release it in UK, change region code for USA, release it in the USA and THEN translate it for the other languages in Europe for release. It's not fair that people in the UK are forced to wait because the game has to been translated into different languages that they aren't even going to use. PAH!
uhmm.. You do realise that UK has the region code as all the other countries in Europe?
And the fact that PS3 games are region free makes it even more, well odd?
I believe Japan uses, normally, 60HZ NTSC as America also does. The UK uses 50HZ PAL... IIRC.
No way, the US is the biggest FF market after Japan. Maybe for the same time, since they can translate Japanese to English to both these country, but UK has a weird terms not used in the US. Then the rest of Europe, how many different languages, texts, dialogues they have to do for all those countries? That is a lots. I guess they have to reanimate all the lip movements for a those languages, but not sure. RE5 has over an hour of cut scenes.
They don't re-dub US games for the UK or change any of the grammer. Usually, they simply release the US version on UK formats. As for the rest of Europe, that takes longer because of all the other languages.
Honestly, I don't think it's fair that the UK have to wait for the European localisations when we just get the re-coded US version anyway. It would be easier to simultaneously release the US and UK version before the rest of Europe.
the reason why its quite late for UK is because of QA. you know. US uses ESRB and UK uses a different thing right?. and i think UK's game rating board is more strict in terms of QA then ESRB maybe?
This doesn't say it's hitting Europe before US. Just addressing the issue of Europe getting games almost a year and a half late. Don't know why Europe is always treated like a third world country when it comes to games. Maybe it's the whole PAL-NTSC conversion? Either way, if they can start doing this for the PAL territories, it could also mean US shores seeing earlier releases. Just hope they can deliver as promised, cause' those gamers in Europe get cranky when those games come 1 year too late
mush have hit the wrong reply area. Just saying they might be able to release US and UK at the same time, but the US markets have a strong JRPG community for FF games. Square can't ignore their bread and butter 2 market.
did they add butt controls yet?