Highly anticipated Final Fantasy XV game delayed until November

Ten years in the making and the popular Japanese RPG has been postponed to make it something that would ‘send other games running in panic’

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Published: 9:01pm, 25 Aug 2016Updated: 5:33pm, 26 Aug 2016

One of the biggest video game releases of 2016, Final Fantasy XV, has just been pushed back several months.

The latest entry in the long-running, enormously popular Final Fantasy role-playing game series was supposed hit the shelves in September.

But the game’s developer, Japanese company Square Enix, just announced a new release date: November 29. Sorry, Final Fantasy fans.

Games get delayed all the time, of course. The hold up is especially notable with Final Fantasy XV because it’s been in development (in one form or another) for nearly a decade.

The game’s director Hajime Tabata posted a personal address to YouTube about the delay, in which he apologised to fans and explained the new release date as a means of making the game as good as possible.

“We have put our whole lives into developing this game, with the intent of bringing the highest quality game experience to every single player who buys it,” Tabata says in the video. “And I personally started developing Final Fantasy XV from a desire to let everyone play a Final Fantasy game that was so outstanding and amazing, that it would send other games running in panic.”