'Final Fantasy XV' To Get Simultaneous Worldwide Release: Expected to Delight Fans in 2016

In an interview with Gamespot last week, Hajime Tabatha, the director of Final Fantasy revealed that for the first time in the final fantasy series "Final fantasy XV" will have a simultaneous release worldwide. This has come as good news for Final fantasy fans across the world, which had to wait for the release in their home country for the release.

The recent version of the series "Lighting returns," took close to three months for release outside of Japan, and Square Enix is yet to release the PC version of the game. With all the earlier versions, the game had its first release in Japan, and then exported to other country of the world.

An article published in Forbes, considers this as a big gamble, as releasing the game worldwide simultaneously, though has its advantages, especially fans can enjoy the game across the world same time, but it presents many challenges to it developers and owners Square Enix.

One of the main challenges was that of localizing the game, and content along with getting certifications from the authorities in the respective countries and also from first parties such as Sony and Microsoft, etc. As local authorities in different countries have different policies, procedures, etc taking varying time to issue these certificates, a worldwide release thus, requires proper planning and perfect execution.

Infrastructure at the studio has been another challenge, reveals Hajime, as there were not enough infrastructures for worldwide release. A lot of groundwork needed to make sure the worldwide release becomes a reality with this version, added Hajime.

Finally, marketing globally is another challenge. As letting people know that the game will have a simultaneous release is again a challenge. With all the planning and the required adjustments done, Hajime and Square Enix are confident that Final Fantasy XV will have a successful global release to the delight of worldwide fans.

With 80% of the construction over, Tabitha says that the game will come out next year, that is in the year 2016 for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4.