Final Fantasy News

According to The Magic Box Square has confirmed that they anticipate a 3.1 billion yen loss for the current financial year, adjusted from the original estimate of 6 billion yen due to better than anticipated sales of PS2 software. Square accounts for the deficit with expenses related to the Final Fantasy movie, PlayOnline development cost, and small sales of Final Fantasy 9 caused by a lack of marketing and promotion in response to Square’s decision to restrict walkthrough and strategy solution books for the game, which largely decreased the exposure, popularity and sales of the game. In reaction to this circumstance, Square has announced that they will officially support walk-throughs and guide books for Final Fantasy X.

The Magic Box also reports that Square has announced that they anticipate releasing Final Fantasy XI by the end of March 2002. The online game will support up to 100,000 simultaneous players and will be maximized for 56k low bandwidth internet connections.

The Squaresoft promotional movie at E3 revealed that the official pronunciation of the name “Tidus,” the protagonist of Final Fantasy X, is the Japanese style “Tea-dus.”