Final Fantasy XIII producer looking into downloadable demo for the West

by Andrew Yoon { May 6th 2009 at 1:45PM }

Square Enix producer Yoshinore Kitase has told VideoGamer.com that Square Enix has "no plan" to release a disc-based demo for Final Fantasy XIII in the States. The demo, bundled with certain copies of the Blu-ray release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, thrust PS3 to the top of the Japanese sales charts, and became the best-selling anime Blu-ray in Japan. While including a demo with the upcoming US release of the movie seems like a no-brainer, Kitase explained that a PS3-exclusive demo would be unfair to the Western audience that's also expecting an Xbox 360 demo. "We are going to carry on with the project alongside the Xbox version, so we really can't just make it available only for the PS3," he explained.

Kitase then noted that the company "would like to check" on the possibility of a downloadable demo. We're certain the logistics behind delivering a 5GB demo to the PSN/XBL masses will be quite difficult to figure out.

Already posted and discussed extensively:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=71338&page=4

So thanks to M$, we might not have to buy that shitty movie to play the FFXIII demo? Rad.

 Ah, hidden away in the Sony forum, eh?

I don't frequent such dark places, hence missing it.

Quoted for TRUTH.  By the way, where's the "$ony" hatred for trying to milk profit out of a piece of shit film by packaging it with the demo?  If "M$" did the same thing it'd be a shit storm.

I find it funny how they talk about "being fair"

Hey man.. the new version is great... 30 extra minutes... like 5 minutes of new action scenes and 25 minutes of more Nomura emo scenes.... I mean.. the emo factor is increased by 10! that's great!

I don't blame you XD

You're late.

I wonder if they'll charge for the demo. Probably not, but you never know what SE is up to.