According to ign.com:

"For years now, Japanese gamers have been awaiting the arrival of the next installment of the Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy XII. Well, today they got what they were waiting for..."

The next part is a section about the first few hours of gameplay, with a few storyline spoilers, so for that reason, I'll put the rest in spoiler tags.

(SPOILER)April Fool's, dummy.