I think its really bad what they're doing.
I can understand the delay completely, but not the complete lack of a western demo.
The FFXII demo packed in with DW8 was a pretty huge waste of time. Short, and you got no feel for the story or battle system. Besides, FF has never needed demos to sell. It wouldn't be a priority to me, and frankly a lot of the entitlement people on the internet seem to feel regarding demos, betas, etc, etc is pretty silly.
Release date is set at April 16th, in Japan. Available at Play-Asia for pre-order for $69.90 USD (First Print Normal Edition). Shipping isn't too bad, unless you want tracking, in which case it jumps from about ~$5 USD to ~$20 USD. Amazon.jp has the placeholder but no pre-order available yet (only notification). Haven't checked any other shops yet.
The PS3 bundle includes a "Cloud Black" 160GB PS3 with a logo (silk-screened?) on the front. I don't recognize the logo (reportedly the "Cloud Wolf" logo).
A rough Google translations of the Famitsu article.
Thanks! Ordered.
Thanks! Ordered.
The handling of this game has been really arrogant and obnoxious IMO.
CG trailer after CG trailer, closed public theaters, screenshots from cinematics and a total absence of publically available gameplay footage....this game was announced in June of 2006, dammit.
Still, a short demo.Considering that they (reportedly) haven't even begun localization, its really no surprise. I would anticipate a similar promotion or demo being released early next year for the western releases. Perhaps with the PS3 version of The Last Remnant. Maybe even with the EU/US release of ACC (depending on how long they delay that).
So which one did you order? The First Print Normal Edition or the bundle?
Where did you order it from?
Still, a short demo.
If its too much trouble, fair enough, but the west doesn't get much luck with FF.
No what I was saying is that it would be great if we could get at least a short demo (1 or 2 scenarios, don't mind) in Europe/US considering we'll have to wait until 2010 for the full game, but I guess some would consider it too much to askDoesn't seem like much of a departure from the past. FFX and FFXII both had roughly equivalent demos, with two scenarios. If I remember correctly, a CG short was released for FFX-2 that bridged the story between the two games. Maybe there was a demo for that as well, I can't remember.
No what I was saying is that it would be great if we could get at least a short demo (1 or 2 scenarios, don't mind) in Europe/US considering we'll have to wait until 2010 for the full game, but I guess some would consider it too much to ask
Would the actual bluray movie work on PAL PS3s? im guessing not. doesnt really matter as i dont speak japanese, does it have english subs?