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Square Enix confirms FF13 on December 17th, 100 dollars
Posted on September 8, 2009 by Alex Donaldson
Square Enix has finally confirmed the release date for the Japanese version of Final Fantasy XIII, proving yesterday's leak true.
Yoichi Wada took to the stage minutes ago at the Final Fantasy XIII Premiere Party over in Japan and announced that the game would debut on December 17th 2009 for 8800 Yen, roughly 95 US dollars.
With tax, the price of the game will rise a little further to around 9250 Yen, or bang on 100 dollars at today's exchange rate.
More from the party as it breaks.
Yoichi Wada took to the stage minutes ago at the Final Fantasy XIII Premiere Party over in Japan and announced that the game would debut on December 17th 2009 for 8800 Yen, roughly 95 US dollars.
With tax, the price of the game will rise a little further to around 9250 Yen, or bang on 100 dollars at today's exchange rate.
More from the party as it breaks.
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Bluray players are much slower compared to DVD this is true, and the lens technology is considerably more expensive. It uses a different diameter in reading.
ReplyThe speed is marginally slower compared to DVDs as well, however DVD data has it's limitations, and BluRay's capacity is far exceeding even your standard dual layer disc. To where Kelvinic is right at this moment there is NO game that utilizes the dual layer capabilities of the BD media. The PS3's drive can understand and WILL read them - so that part you are incorrect on Kelvinc, as for the 'quad-layer' technology That's going to require a smaller diameter of laser which means a newer model of the PS3 - i'm afraid =/
The HD-DVD, and BluRay format war is over, it's done and ended; stop bringing it up. In a few years BluRay will be obsolete just like VHS is now, even though it won over BETA format in the early 80s.
In later news. 100USD is outrageous - that's if you want it straight from Japan im assuming, if you wait for it to be translated, dubbed, ripped apart, censored, and modified for western shores im sure you'll be able to pick it up for the standard 59.99 before tax.
Hi Department of missinformation,
Replyit's so scary of you to say that you are looking at me, feels like i'm sitting in a dark room or something. there's a lot of missnformation in this site here, i'm afraid you need some eye drops if like to do that often.
yes i was wrong, not 48x it was for cd, dvd DL is 12x, but still a lot faster than 2x. (as you didn't ask me to invent a 2x blu-ray drive, i'm assuming that it's true for ps3)
and in reply to Anonymous, i'm not sure he/she was replying me or not as HD DVD was mentioned. first of all i was not talking about HD DVD, and nobody was. and secondly you are right that there exists quad-layer BD or whatever technology which can let a BD to contain indefinite data, but you don't know that it will not be playable in ps3! because the BD player in ps3 just don't support.
let's look at this thing from another angle. nowadays 90% of games exist in both platforms. have you seen any game that ps3 need 1 BD and xbox 360 need multiple discs? i haven't. which means that we are wasting at least 17gig of space in the BD in all multiplatform games. please bare in mind that a BD will not give you better visual or better processing power than a dvd, they are dependent on the machine.
so what's the point?
Before you go around calling people stupid you may want to invent your 48x DVD drive.
ReplyAnd the MGS 4 install takes no more then 4 minutes...typically 3.
100 USD has been converted from the price in Yen. It isn't going to be 100 USD when it's released in the US you bellends, the news writer was just giving you a comparison because most people don't understand how much 9250 yen is in their currency.
ReplyAnd development is still ongoing for the Blu-ray technology. For instance, TDK has managed to create and demonstrate a quad-layer BD disc that can hold 100GBs of information and there's even talk that they have an experimental version that can hold 200GB (in six layer). So screw your HD DVD technology.
MOO, if you are not stupid enough you wouldn't say blu-ray can hold 42 more gig than dvd, in order to compare ps3 and 360.
Replyfirst of all, you think that a blu-ray dual layer is 50 gig and a dvd9 is 8.5 gig so you say 42 gig difference. but what you don't know is none of the game is ps3 is dual layer. they're all single layer which means it's only 25 gig. so i'll say 1 blu-ray = 3 dvd9
second and most importantly, do you know how fast can your blu-ray player in ps3 run at? i bet you have no idea, so i tell you, it's 2x. guess how fast the dvd play in 360 runs at? 48x.
from the players point of view, do you really mind changing the game disc every 20 hours of game play? to me, i don't. however i really don't like waiting for the extremely long loading time thanks to the 2x blu-ray player of the ps3.
i still remember i have to wait for 10 MINUTES for the MGS4 to install itself to my ps3 in EVERY CHAPTER! at that time i think everyone in the world would just prefer changing the disc, which will take 30 seconds max. i couldn't believe that in the game it actually joke about the fact that blu-ray don't have to change disc. really, what a joke itself......
asdf
ReplyIn Australia new games are 0 and crap like Modern Warfare is 0 so you should be happy with prices the way they are...
Replyedit: if this game is over 100 bucks (line 6)
Replyi dont care if its 100 bucks. im a square fan to the end.
Replyi know what im getting for christmas XP
and this game has been amped up to the extreme. there's alot of technology running through this game. why wouldn't it be worth 100 bucks?
and as far as i know, the 360 is gonna have problems with this game LMAO.
if this game is 0 then then it might be over 10 discs just to import the damn game.
just to refresh everyone's memory, a blu-ray can hold over 42 more gigs in memory than a standard game disc.
Bullshit! 0 for a fucking video game. Wada needs to get his Dick out the dirt ASAP.
Reply(0 Video game = poor sales)
Omg. Guys it's not gonna be 100usd wen it's released in the us....
Replyfuk wada and what he stands forrr
Replybring tht shyt to the states nigge ill shit on it and post in on youtube
Good thing I don't care about Final Fantasy.
Reply100 bucks? Is a Special Edition or some thing like that?
ReplyI'm going to assume that none of you know anything about japanese game pricing structure. It is not standardized as the American/Euro system, and higher-end games can and will clock in near 9000 yen. FFXII was ~8800, why anyone would expect FFXIII not to be at least that much is puzzling.
Reply0 dollar? you nuts? For that amount of money I would expect it to do the dishes!
ReplyI will wait till the price comes down, I want the game but I don't want to spend 0.00 on one game. Square-Enix has dropped the ball lately imo. I wonder how most consumers will respond to FFXIII's price tag.
ReplyLooks like we found the Japanese Bobby Kotick.
ReplyThat is really a lot of money for a god damn game
ReplyWTF?! 100USD!? Wada needs to get his thumb out of his ass... -_-
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