Yippee

This is great news indeed!

Yay! A year is still though awfully long!

I'll take it when it's done.  Sure I want it quickly, but poor localization can seriously taint great games.

Probably means they are going to push for a holiday release but I'm still not going to get my hopes up.

in other words, Europeans that speak English should import the American version so as not to have to wait a further 3 months or more.

Meh...As a Euro-fag i will be importing the US one anyway.

Well I live in Europe so it pisses me off me when it takes forever for games to be released in Europe, why is there such a fricking gap between the release of a game in Europe and America? English is huge everywhere in Europe so they dont have to localize it too much

Great news; it's a nice coincidence that they want to make money faster and we want to play FFXIII faster. Everybody wins! :D

So uh... that's a girl in the screenshot right? It's so damn hard to tell with Final Fantasy games sometimes...

Kind of meaningless without an actual date or even a specific month.

That's great but I don't see why they don't do the English voices and localization along side the development of the game.  They could release the game world wide on the same day the Japanese get it.

Hopefully I'm finished with all these Personas before this comes out.

This is a good thing...... Right?

This is awesome news!! I would love for us to get it March 2010.

Sounds good.  Although I'd still rather there was no gap between the US and EU versions. 

This is only good news if they still do a good job localizing it...

A rushed localization is not worth getting it early.

I'm not a fan of the 3D Final Fantasys. I'll take FF 1-VI over any of the 3D games any day.

sweet

Faster localization sounds nice as long as the quality isn't affected, but I suspect the speed at which they can port the code to Xbox 360 will have a greater effect on when it is released outside of Japan.

Cool, can't wait.

Good news for europe...Now I just wonder if Square Enix will be hopping on the Final Fantasy DLC Bandwagon?

Awesome. It's always hell waiting months and months for the FF games to make it over the pond to Europe. I understand that a lot of translations have to be done into all the European languages, but I always thought they could just release the English version at the same time as the US release, and release a separate version with the other languages 6 months down the line. Now, with the systems being online, they don't even have to do that, they can just patch it in when it's ready.

As long as they let you put the english text over the japanese voice, then im fine.

This is...good. It just sucks that it has taken this long.

Awesome!
...as long as this doesn't hurt the games quality.

... need i say anything?

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

Good. Square's been trying to localize and release games closer to the original JP release date. Which is why I was surprised that there wasn't much mention about the NA version. Here's to hoping it'll only be a few months at most after the JP release... and not 6+ months.

I'll Final YOUR Fantasy.

Seriously, are these like an RPG or something?  Never played them.

Yeah, it's something like that.

It's great to see that Square has adopted a modern plan regarding their localization. Of course your recording English voices and translating the games script. Your game is being release in Japan by the end of this year, I would be horrified if no localization at all had not been done on it yet. Next time you can get better management and even try and attempt a simultaneous release in both Japanese and English. It can be done, granted it has varying degrees of success, but it's not impossible. 

Well considering Mass effect took 1½ years to be released in Japan it's not much better for them.

So now it will only take 4months for North America and 8 months for Europe.  He did not actcully say how much sooner so I'm going to continue to hold my breath, but I'm sure it will be faster the Gran Turismo V

Tight...

This  is good news and seams like a no brainer to me anyway. What's the point of waiting to localize everything after the initial release as apposed to just doing it all at the same time? This way its out to more people faster and the more copies=more money for the company.

I hope other rpg companies follow suit with this.

"I'll Final YOUR Fantasy.Seriously, are these like an RPG or something?  Never played them."

Finally. Jesus. Doing it at the same time doesn't mena FASTER. ie, four 2GHz processers aren't FASTER then just one, they just do more at the same time.

what?

I dno i thot for ff10 the extra wait was worth it cause u got the "dark summons" which were the most kickass fights ever(only available in the european version)

Just let UK join the NTSC territory. It's France's fault they speak freaky deaky dutch (and maybe French).

sweet

@m1k3

There are few things more pretentious..  Japanese voice acting tends to be just as bad as the English, whenever people claim it's better, it's usually because they don't understand the language and/or are Japanophiles.  Assuming the voice work is on the same level as X and XII then the English stuff will be vastly better than the Japanese.

This is the first time im ever looking foward to a jap RPG< havent been much of a final fantasy person but this is really getting me interested

this is great, i'm tired of waitng months to get the games after the japan release dates

good