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The Japanese take their Final Fantasy XV quite seriously

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TOKYO – The Japanese take their fantasies quite seriously. Video game giant Square Enix launched its Final Fantasy XV role-playing game with a lot of fanfare on the company’s home turf in Tokyo today. The launch event happens in parallel with a global launch of the game on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One game consoles.

Final Fantasy is something like a Hollywood blockbuster in Japan. The series has sold more than 115 million copies worldwide, and this is the first major new version since Final Fantasy XIV in 2010. Yosuke Matsuda, chief executive of Square Enix, hosted the event and said it was a new flagship title that took a huge amount of effort and investment across a decade of development.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.