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Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
Depends on your region as the U.S. traditionally gets the games anywhere between September and December for Holiday season. Japan gets them around March through May to coincide with Golden Week and PAL gets them whenever SE decides to stop screwing with them, which is usually late Spring, early Summer. They definitely try to release them around holidays known for present giving.
U.S Release Dates

Final Fantasy X - July 19th, 2001
Final Fantasy XII - March 16th 2006
Final Fantasy XIII - March 9th 2010

I'm hoping they've learnt from there mistakes and we'll get a quicker turnaround on FF VII but who knows :S
With the exception of the one for FFXIII; the dates for X and XII are wrong. Those are the Japanese release dates.

FFX - December 17th 2001.
FFXII - October 31st, 2006.

The only entries to get a Spring release in the US has been the first game, FFXI, and XIII. The majority of the other entries have released in the U.S. around September through November, with a few entries releasing in late August or December.

It only matters if SE is hoping for a strong Western release as the holiday season will be a good time for that but honestly, they can announce it to arrive whenever. It's not like FF has much competition in terms of sales within the genre.