FF XIII now 13% complete

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Kytiara said:

Quickdraw McGraw said:

Even if it is 13%, that in no way means it won't debut until 2009 as most of you suggest. It still has well over a year to hit in 2008.

The first stages of development usually are the hardest and take the longest, I wouldn't be surprised if we got an extensive in-game trailer by TGS (Although if we don't get a trailer at least, I'll be a tad impatient).

 EDIT: I also expect a simultaneous worldwide launch (Or maybe at least a US/Japan launch), especially with such high profile games like MGS4 doing the same. 

Actually Quickdraw, I hate to say this but in general the last 10% of any software project takes much longer than you might expect.  Its sometimes called the "Last Mile Problem", though that was specifically coined for telecommunications, but for software it is a similar idea.

The reason the last 10% take so long is because you have to iron out all those bugs that everyone missed.  No matter how talented your development group and no matter how many procedures you try and implement to reduce bugs, all software has them.  In general, the longer a bug has been in the system, the longer it takes to debug and fix that problem, so if you have a software project that spans years, and there are bugs from the first months of development, you can imagine the pains it takes to fix them.

This is probably a bit of a geeky joke, but oh well...."Developers often say that the first 90% of the project takes the first 90% of the development time...and the last 10% takes the other 90%!"

That's true. I've seen games get delayed for MONTHs over bugs just weeks before its release date.FFXIII isn't out of the woods yet.