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9:30 AM on 11.13.2009, Topher Cantler

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Here it is, folks. Ready? Final Fantasy XIII will be released in North America AND Europe on March 9th, 2010.

This comes a short three months after the Japanese release date, which is somewhat surprising. Additionally, Square Enix has announced its new "Lucky Number 13" campaign, in which new info on the game will be trickled out on the 13th of every month until the game's launch, starting today.

So there you have it, March 9th. Has everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief? Is that soon enough for you? Let us know what you think.

[UPDATE: Check out the (ridiculous) new trailer for the game above, which also confirms the same date for Europe.

There's also apparently a Twitter hashtag dealio happening right here, where you can unlock an exclusive Xbox Live FFXIII item of some sort when enough tweets have been generated.]

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lewness

Thank you, Topher. Now all I have to do is not die before March 10 next year. Or lose my PS3.

Loogibot

That's two days before my birthday...

Tha Meat

Why not March 13th? Seems like a waisted marketing campaign opportunity.

Strandli

But what about EUROPE?!
If we're getting ditched again, I will have to kill someone, preferably a fanboy.

Topher Cantler

Tha meat makes an excellent point.

johpan

I know a lot of people are excited for the release, but for me, it'll just be Tuesday.

MrSadistic

Because.. uh March 13th is on a Saturday? But Nintendo releases their games on a Sunday, so that release date doesn't sound too far-fetched. Wacky Japaneseses.

ZombiePlatypus

Wow, that's a lot sooner than I had expected. Good news!

Nerdy Suit

Between the ages of 10 to 20, there was no announcement that could have topped one of a Final Fantasy game. Now, at 28, I honestly have no interest in the series at all.

dogestyl

I don't know if I can handle both God of War III AND Final Fantasy XIII in the same month. I'll be broke but at least I'll be happy

Gemsi

Sadly no idea if its the same time for europe it seems

socialnorms

I have to admit, I'm with Nerdy Suit. I used to love Final Fantasy, but this one looks like VIII: a lot of couture, not a lot of substance. I don't want to play as a whining kid. And what's with every character being homogenized? Square has the best CG people in the world, and the heroes - male and female alike - all look the same.

James Young

Is this for just the PS3 release or multi-console?

AkumaLovesYou

Did they give any indication of the UK and other English Speaking countries, release date?

Please don't say we have to wait for the other EU countries to get it translated before they decide to release it here.

Shadowiii

Countdown widget set! Here's hoping it lives up to the immense amount of hype.

Riegel88

I'll pick it up

Topher Cantler

No word on Europe yet. Sorry guys. We'll let you know as soon as we hear something.

koehler83

Not soon enough, but sooner than I expected. I had expected June.

TheChemist

Holy crap! It comes out on my birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!! This will be an acceptable gift to myself.

fadecy

It's out on 12th of March in europe. *But I guess Kotaku and DTOID don't have a UK readership so what's the fucking point in reporting that.

*sarcasm

fadecy

Look at the EU PS blog you lazy gits!

EternalDeathSlayer

I don't mean to break up the fun, but why the fuck is there an ad for Lillian Vernon on dtoid?

My mom buys shit from there. My mom is old.

Onlineatron

The announcement was for Europe as well...

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/11/13/final-fantasy-xiii-the-time-has-come/

emjaymeow

http://www.finalfantasyxiii.com/
New trailer and the guy at the end says: North American and European release date = 3.9.2010

GohanGVO

Q1 2010 = The REAL Q4 2009.

Dreamsower

@socialnorms Asians tbqh. That is half joking and half serious. Also I am with you and Nerdy Suit in that I am surprised by my lack of excitement, if this had been 5-10 years ago (my own peak FF love) I'd have creamed myself. This is still surprisingly sooner than I had expected, I'm happy people don't have to wait longer for it!

Gilgamesh1317

No love for Europe, and America gets it just four days before my birthday.

Fuck you Square Enix, seriously. That's just frigging aggravating.

Gilgamesh1317

And then it appears I did not read the frigging article properly.

"North America AND Europe on March 9th"

Suddenly my day has gone from godawful to orgasmically good!

AkumaLovesYou

Stop stalking me please Fadecy.

fadecy

@Akuma: You're the one who steals pictires of my cat =P

Also, thanks DTOID for putting Europe up there as well.

Los255

WAIT A MINUTE....

03/09/10

0+3+0+9+1+0 = 13

RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!

Topher Cantler

@fadecy and UK peeps: The post didn't initially have the European release date because we didn't know it until we had the trailer. The only info we had been sent at the time I first wrote the story was for the US date.

TheCleaningGuy

Cool! Can't wait.

P-Dude

YESSSSS!!

I can't wait until Chocofro

Thype

The 'host' acts like a douche bag, but the game looks pretty awesome.

The visuals in particular look stunning, the whiny characters I'm not so sure about yet. I'll buy it though, that's for sure.

David Radd

Argh, Thype beat me to the comment about the host.

The game looks neat, but I'm also going to give another minor complaint about the trailer: why did Yamamoto feel the need to speak in English? It was slightly jarring with the other SE people speaking Japanese and it was pretty darn obvious he was reading cues.

Anyway, carry on...

Ganjookie

Pre-ordering today :D

Lucca

Good God, that trailer. My bleeding eyes. And ears. Horrid Engrish.

But FUCK YEAH RELEASE DATE GO.

Wolfatron

@Thype
Agree about the host. The way he walked reminded me of The Best Looking Man in the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=940zccYFyOI

Electrium

That trailer was pretty worthless for the most part, except for two pieces of information that struck me as interesting.

1) The release date, obviously.
2) The story is based on the emotions of the characters. It might've just been corporate nothingspeak, but I think it's fairly likely that the story will be more similar to FF7/FFX as opposed to political-based like FF Tactics or FF12.

Mr mew

Now that would annoy the shit out of Aussies. Day/Month/Year. (Need to start thinking like Americans too now, huh)

Chack

What exactly does "Dynamic characters" mean?

laika one

damn... apparently that twitter thing is not available in my region :(

MuddBstrd

If you go to Youtube and look up that Leona Lewis song they said is going to be the theme for the NA/Euro version, the nerd rage is absolutely hilarious. Personally I think the songs are pretty equivalent, but with the amount of people pissed off the game won't have voice acting language options already, the rage is expected. Can we get a Fanboy Friday on this!?

RenagadePanda

Still need to figure out what system I'm buying it for. Otherwise I'll wind up getting it for both and never beat it.

I hate decisions.

HEL105

Yes! That's much sooner than I hoped! March is going to be epic!

mrberns

You've gotta be kidding me! I'll be Japan when this is released and will be there another two weeks before I get to come back home and play it. Not complaining especially, but it is a little ironic.

Handy

Why is there Leona Lewis in my Final Fantasy?

BulletTrain

So, that was the weirdest announcement video for a game, in history.

bangra

what about the asian version? japanese with english subtitles?

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