Square Enix Confirms No English Blu-Ray Demo for Final Fantasy XIII

Humberto Saabedra

ImageFinal Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase has confirmed that there will be no English version of the Final Fantasy Blu-Ray demo disc that was bundled into the Japanese release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, owing to current simultaneous production work on the Xbox 360 version taking precendent and not wanting to simply produce a single demo version as was done in Japan.

However, Kitase did leave the possibility for a downloadable demo open, but concerns have been voiced on the viability of offering such an option since only those with high speed connections would have the demo available as well as the confirmed 5GB file size raising more concerns about bandwidth availability and caps.

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