09.10.06
PS3 delayed, just for Europe
FF V Advance and FF VI Advance will be released 12th October and 30th November respectively. Both costs approx. £25.20 and will be coming out for the GBA.
Meanwhile, Sony has announced that there’ll be no worldwide launch of their new console PS3. One of their spokesmen (so many articles on this out there, so I haven’t made a note of which one) have said that the Europe launch is being left until as late as March next year, because there are so many technicalities. Sure, Europe isn’t exactly a ‘priority’ when it comes to launching games or consoles… ever, because compared to the Americas and Japan, there really isn’t that many gamers. Nonetheless, at E3 this year, there was so much hype surrounding the fact that a worldwide launch was in the pipeline for both Sony and Nintendo that for the former to now say (they might as well have said so, anyway) ‘well, you guys aren’t important enough’… can be taken as a form of betrayal. In any case, it’s a big let down for people over here who had banked on getting it before Christmas, never mind how much it’s supposed to cost!
Talking of PS3, so many games for it are being discussed on Japanese sites. One is Lair which is categorised under Flight/Action Adventure – fly and fight on a nice big dragon. One for Pern series fans perhaps? Afrika, meanwhile has no genre attributed to it, but from what was seen of it at E3 this year, people say it looks realistic enough. Another Action Adventure, Unknown Realms, is set in a tiny European village, and explores what happens ‘after death’, apparently. A third of the same genre, Heavenly Sword wowed crowds at E3 this year, and is touted as one of the best fighting games seen in recent years. So… this recent turn of events – that the PS3 launch for Europe is delayed – must be a bit of a blow for gamers who’d heard so much about the above games since E3.