Final Fantasy 25th anniversary Ultimate Box collection announced

Probably not gonna get to America or Europe, especially considering it has the PS2 version of FF11, which can't be played on European consoles and requires an almost $100 add-on to play on american ones.

they'll prolly release a cut-down version for american and Europe, prolly with the same (or higher) price-tag though.

$1,250.00

plus tax

Well an excuse to experience Final Fantasy in all it's odd glory and see why it's popular. I think my wallet broke some stitches as I read this, I bet it's pricy :O

I can understand that this collection might be aimed at the hardcore Final Fantasy fan, but what about the other fans who might not have the money or the systems to play all these games?   Square Enix could have easily put all these games on a single blu-ray or a couple of DVDs and sold a collection for the PS3 and 360.

They could have done something like the Kirby Dream Collection and sold it for about 50 or 60 bucks.  Have all the games on a few discs and make it easy for the average consumer to enjoy this collection.   Instead, most people will need at least 3 systems to play all the games that are included.  And let's not even get into the fact that this current collection effectively cuts out any chances of a 360 or Wii U port down the line.

Honestly, who is SE making happy with a collection like this?  They could have easily sold millions and earned back some goodwill from gamers.   A 60 dollar collection with the first thirteen Final Fantasy games and a music CD would have sold very well.  

What boggles the mind is how they managed to screw this up.  They already did a great collection with Dragon Quest a couple of years ago on the Wii.   Nintendo has done an excellent job  with a collection that celebrates Kirby's anniversary.

Why not follow that formula?   What business sense is there to cut their potential fanbase out of this collection, and make it nearly impossible to  play without owning all the systems.  

SE missed a massive opportunity here.   I'm not against a limited edition version of the collection like the one they are making, but why not make a standard version that is much cheaper and comes on a single disc? It is really that hard SE?

I have to say i'd be more interested if they'd bothered to update them a smidgeon and put them all on the PS3 with trophies for each game, though it's unlikely this will ever make it to anywhere besides Japan. they never give anyone else the fun extras.And anyway, some people may no longer have the ability to play original playstation games. and for this current generation, they probably can't anyway and only have a PS3. poor marketing right there. I suppose you could argue that it's a collector set but any collector able to buy this probably already has those games, on their original systems no less. Rather sloppy Square.

Still, I like the idea. if i had the money and they went ahead and gave the games some trophies at least, i'd totes buy it. but simple copies of those old games? I have most of them on emulators and the rest on the system itself.

1. Why the Hell isn't Final Fantasy: Tactics in the box? Sure it's not a numbered title but it's also better than almost every main entry.

2. Why are the titles on different platforms? This entire package is just lazy.

3. Where the Hell is our FF7 remake? Where is our sequel to FF: Tactics?

Square Enix, do you resent your fanbase to the point of wanting to troll and piss them off, or are you just sincerely this stupid?

Just remake Final Fantasy 7 and be done with it.  I've never seen a company more devoted to not giving what their majority fan base wants.  Instead they churn out garbage spin offs and AWFUL new final fantasy games.  Square, what the hell happened?

So are they assuming everyone can still play PS1 games? I can, but anyone who's scrapped their PS1 or 2 might have some issues.

The FF III included in this collection is a PSP port of an NDS game released in 2006 (minus touch and Wi-Fi support), which was itself a 3D remake of the never-released-in-NA Famicom original. Hope this clears things up for folks.

Playing the PSone FFs will just be showing us how good Square used to be. Everything after FFX was just garbage

great box but :o i already got all parts :D if not would be a day1 buy

Hmm, if it comes to the States I may buy it but I doubt I'll import since I already own the original version of all those games.

So for I assume 500$+ you can get a bunch of old games you could just buy off Ebay for 5$-10$, no thanks. Id rather just dust off my PSX than spend all that cash.

If only my ps3 could play UMDs......

Looks tempting but pretty sure its ridiculusly priced...

Pass...

And besides, I own the originals which were classic. Now if they remade VII as a part of this bundle then that would be an instant purchase.

wait, so you will literally need almost every single playstation  and portable console units to play these games?

i might be intrested in getting this if the collection is the right price. just to have them all in one place. even though anything after X was terrible imo

bring this to PS3 NA/EU Damn It................

Lol @ people complaining. There are still people who likes to play PS1 and PS2 games and I like how they choose what version to include. FF3 was somewhat a sore thumb but given that it was not ported to PS1/2/3 I guess this is better than nothing. Anyway too bad this is in Japanese unless it's dual-language. At least Squeenix's still thinking about their sony fans.

Just wondering, if they included FFXI, why didn't they included FFXIV?

Looks pretty but I have most of the originals so I'm good. 

Hmm... Considering the fact that (I'm one of the fortunate few here that still has the older systems, mind you) I already HAVE the majority of the games included...

FF 1 - NES Release / PSX Remake

FF 2 - PSX Remake

FF 3 - NDS Remake

FF 4, 5 & 6 - PSX Remakes

FF 7, 8, 9 - PSX

FF 10, 10-2 & 12 - PS2

FF 13 & 13-2 - XBoX 360

Sadly, I'll pass on this one.

If you put all that stuff on a couple of blu-ray discs and all of the games worked on my PS3 just fine, then I'd be down for it. But I'll pass. 

no thanks ,   i m pretty sure this series just needs to die ,  leave the originals alone the way they were ment to be played  ,  

To be truthful, i would rather have this in modern formats (DVD-Blu-ray) or something. Since Sony HATES backward compatibility, you would need a Playstation 1(7-9) or 2(10, 12). and a PSP for FF 1-3! why not port them all to download? that would be smarter too! 

Ok, I'm curious now. If FF's 1-13 were: being released on 360 and PS3, with achievements/trophies and with cleaned up visuals and sound, for $200. Would you buy it? Because I know I would! 

I will only buy this collection if it's $50 or lower. I vow to never buy another game over $50 ever again.

For the right price I would buy this, I didn't own a PS1 or PS2 when most of those games were popular. I've only owned FFXIII  for the 360 and FFIV on the PSP other than that I have never played them this would be good to see what the hype is about. For people who haven't played the series or for the die hard FF lovers this would be pretty cool. What would make it better though is to have an HD remake of all of them which many people want but know that's not going to happen.

And that basically is just taking a good swing at the cash cow... Reprint old games for people who haven't played, don't spam out something that isn't needed.

not worth it, unless never to be played, and kept in a glass case.