'Final Fantasy XIII' DLC Looks Like It Will Happen

"Final Fantasy XIII" director Motomu Toriyama hinted at the possibility of DLC for his newly finished game last year, and his "perhaps" now looks like it has turned into a "will arrive" -- though that arrival will happen in Japan before North America.

"We initially had doubts to add extra content to the Western version but then it would have taken the international version more months of delay," "FFXIII" producer Yoshinori Kitase reportedly told a Dutch magazine in a statement translated by NeoGAF. "We did prepare a DLC but it will arrive a little later in the West."

Kitase also revealed that a simultaneous international was initially considered for the core game, however, which may come a bit more of a surprise.

"At first we had plans to release the game simultaneously worldwide, so we had the intention to deliver identical version between the regions," he said. "When we noticed that we wouldn’t make it, we decided to release the game as fast as possible in the West after its release in Japan."

Instead, the U.S. will be forced to wait until its approved date to receive "FFXIII" on March 9, 2010. (Japan already has it.)

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