FFXIII: Simultaneous 360 and PS3 Euro release in spring 2010, says Kitase

Badaboom. FFXIII’s PS3 and 360 versions will release simultaneously next spring in Europe, producer Yoshinori Kitase told VG247 at GamesCom today, calling the info the “new announcement”.

“We don’t have the actual month down yet, but in Japan it’s scheduled for a winter release, and in Europe and North American territoriers it’s spring 2010,” said the developer.

He added: “For Europe and North America, the PS3 and 360 versions are going to be released simultaneously.”

Kitase said that the team had made significant headway in cutting down waits for Europe and the US.

“For previous titles it took usually about a year to localise each version and bring it over to Europe, but for this title there should be a considerably shorter gap and [we'll] bring it to European territories as close to the North American release as possible,” he said.

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Obama: It\'s time to put away the Xbox

Surely President Obama is aware of the Wii and PS3 as well? In a recent speech, he characteristically stated that it's time to put away the Xbox literally. Obviously this has drawn questions as to why he didn't mention the other gaming platforms!

“We can’t tell our kids to do well in school and then fail to support them when they get home,” he said. “You can’t just contract out parenting. For our kids to excel, we have to accept our responsibility to help them learn. That means putting away the Xbox — putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour. It means attending those parent-teacher conferences and reading to our children and helping them with their homework.

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