I went searching through some of the main news sites looking for news on delays and release dates and I could not find anything that said FFXIII was supposed to be coming out in 08. I found a very old article from like 07 on Kotaku that said the game still had no date. I found an article later that said there was a mistranslation that created a rumor about it coming out in 08, but it was a mistranslation and not accurate. Then in 08 Square confirmed that it would not be making it for 08 with no date still set. Then either late 08 or early 09 Wada, the President said that he wished for it to come out in 09. Then eventually they confirmed that it was going to becoming out in 09 in the Winter on the demo. It is still coming out in 09 in Japan. And that hasn't been changed yet. As for the US and other regions that is definitely coming out in 10, but the game's release is 09 still and that has been the only the release announced.

If there are articles saying otherwise I was unable to find them. If you can hunt them down I'll change to view, but I remain of the opinion that FFXIII has not been delay at all, since there was no release date announced until this year and its not even a real date yet. Its just Winter. There is naturally still plenty of time for them to delay and change that, but so far I think you're jumping the gun. The game has just had a long development cycle. And that is bound to make anyone annoyed.

On the positive side though once it is released in the Japan they said the turn around time for localization for us will be much less than the usual 6 to 9 months. Since they are actually working on localization right now.