Final Fantasy XIII will be released on December 17th, 2009 in Japan. US fans have to wait until April 2010 to play it. By that time, Japan will be done with the game, and probably playing FFXIII Versus. All the details will be available to us about the game before we even get to play it.

This is going to suck. I really want to play this game. How is it that people fansub an anime episode in 20 minutes, yet a translation of the game will take ~4 months? I'm seriously contemplating buying Rosetta Stone - Japanese. It's going to take every part of me not to research the game while it's out in Japan. I don't want to spoil any surprises they might have in store for me.