Remember that lovely demo of Final Fantasy XIII that Japan received bundled with Advent Children Complete last month? Unfortunately Square Enix says that will not be leaving Japan. Producer Yoshinori Kitase had this to say about it:

“The type of demo version we released in Japan, we currently have no plan of doing that abroad, partly because we are going to carry on with the project alongside the Xbox version, so we really can’t just make it available only for the PS3.”

However not all is lost, as he goes on to say:

“But we hear that the demo version normally means something that you can download in the West, so that is a possibility we would like to check.”

Although the game does not have an official release date yet, it is expected to hit Japan at the end of this year. If that is the case, based on the sped up localization process, we could have a demo around that same time. Here is hoping.

[via Videogamer]