E3 2009: Whoops! Final Fantasy XIV Official Site Confirms PC

Just hours after SCEA President and CEO Jack Tretton announced that Final Fantasy XIV would be exclusive to PlayStation 3 in 2010, Square Enix's official site for the game has appeared to set the records straight, confirming the game's status as an MMO, and its release on both PS3 and PC next year.

How rude.

The newly launched site also features the new trailer as shown at the Sony presser, which I will post here when a decent embeddable version appears on the internets.

Other interesting details from the site confirm that many of the key personnel from Final Fantasy XI will be invlovled in the game's production, as will Final Fantasy soundtrack veteran (and independant composer) Nobuo Uematsu.

I guess Tretton must have meant to say "it won't be on Xbox 360 next year."

RUMOR SMASH: Final Fantasy XIII Not Until 2010 in North America

Prepare your sad face emoticon. Square Enix boss Youichi Wada told Reuters yesterday that the eternally-in-development Final Fantasy XIII won't be available in Western markets until sometime during fiscal year 2010, starting next April... at the earliest.

So, uh, yeah. I don't really know what else to say about this. Though this is the kind of crap I've come to expect regarding the Final Fantasy XIII titles, it's still kind of irritating.

I guess I'm just glad that the rumor got smashed quickly so we didn't really have any time to get friendly with the idea of a 2009 release, right?