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Aielyn on 31 January 2013
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Galvanizer said:
Aielyn said:
I think you're slightly misinterpreting the page.

It's the page for 2013~ - which means 2013 and later. If you look at games like Tomb Raider, it says this:

発売日:2013年発売予定

This says that it's set for release in 2013 - specifically, 発売日 means "Release Date", and 2013年発売予定 means "Will be released in 2013". The next two on the list (Gyrozetter and FF Lightning Returns) also have this. Now look at FFV XIII and The Last Remnant:

発売日:未定

Here, 未定 means "Undecided", and can basically be interpreted as TBA or TBD.

The reason why it seems to keep being moved forward a year is that the current year is where all the TBA/TBD games are put.


Man, I wish I took some print screen of the website back on January 15, 2013. Back then, there wasn't even a "2013~" page yet and all the 2013 releases were still on the "2012~" page. What I'm basically saying is that a "2013~" page was created by a staff member only recently and they moved TLR for PS3 into this category instead of just removing the listing from the website. If SQEX are still refusing to remove TLR for PS3 from their site, then maybe there's a small chance it may one day be released on the platform.

You don't understand. The page isn't being manually made by some staff member. It's automated from their database. The Last Remnant remains in their database listed as "Undecided", and so when they instruct the site to update to 2013, TLR gets moved up to the new page.

That's how most websites do it. Kind of like how, for instance, VGChartz still has a page for Metro Last Light Wii U - the game has been confirmed to be cancelled (the Wii U version, that is), but nobody bothered to go and update the database to remove it. It still shows up when you search for "Wii U" games, not because someone specifically instructed the site to include Metro Last Light for Wii U, but because the site pulls information from the database, which hasn't been updated.

You probably don't remember, but Project H.A.M.M.E.R was still listed on Nintendo's Wii site, despite already having been confirmed as being cancelled, for about two years. It wasn't by design - they simply hadn't actually removed it from the database, so it still showed up.

If you were to contact Square Enix and ask them about it, they'd probably go "Oops, we haven't removed it from the database yet", and within a couple of days, it would disappear.