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Final Fantasy VIII 'coming soon' to PSN

Sony newsletter indicates Square's classic JRPG headed to PS3's online storefront in the near future.

Most of the buzz surrounding Final Fantasy these days pertains to XIII, which PlayStation 3 owners in Japan will be able to bite into tomorrow. And while Western audiences won't see Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 and PS3 until March 9, it appears as if Sony and Square Enix will have a downloadable edition of Final Fantasy VIII on tap for the PlayStation Network sometime soon.

Sony notified the public of such in a recent e-mail blast detailing a batch of new content coming to or out now for the PlayStation 3. Specifically, Final Fantasy VIII is listed alongside Buzz Quiz World and District 9 in the "Coming Soon" section of Sony's newsletter.

Squall is a hit among cosplayers across the globe.

Squall is a hit among cosplayers across the globe.

Originally released for the PlayStation in 1999, Final Fantasy VIII found itself in the unsavory position of following Square's highly acclaimed Final Fantasy VII, which surfaced on the PS Store in June. Still, the game managed to achieve substantial acclaim, thanks to a storyline that follows Squall Leonheart and other military academy graduates as they join the elite combat unit Seed.

For more information, check out GameSpot's review of Final Fantasy VIII.

138 Comments

  • josef8

    Posted Oct 22, 2010 10:24 am GMT

    my favorite and only Final Fantasy i bothered to finish.. best intro and ending i have seen

  • shabulia

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 8:31 pm GMT

    Final Fantasy VIII is still my favorite FF game so far. VII was great but VIII is still better. Squall was the best hero to come out of Square and I'm glad to ahve him again on the PSP! Next up: Final Fantasy IX!

  • jubeio

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 1:52 am GMT

    see now i loved FFVIII my brother thought it was horrible, short and too easy
    the easy bit i agree with, and they did fail on the graphics, it was too early to get graphics into more real life animation, but i thought it was an amazing game, good story, great characters, guy with a gun (Y)
    the only prblem i really had with it was the magic, magic was quite random at how much damage and stuff it did, and wasnt ocmpletely helpful, although the junctioning stuff was a good idea, i duno i just felt like the feel of FF was slightly lost from magic

  • DJCartmell

    Posted Dec 21, 2009 1:33 am GMT

    Even though I know it wont happen I do wish they would do a proper re-make of it with updated graphics, extra monsters, characters, locations etc. That said I can't wait for this one of my all time favourite games!

  • ryan_rnr

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 11:13 pm GMT

    my favorite FF game. i bought this the first day it was available on PSN.i used to rip my own ISOs from my physical discs and had to switch different versions of POPSTATION just to go around game-crashing bugs. now i can sink my time on drawing spells uninterrupted!

  • roryk666

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 9:59 pm GMT

    one of the best rpgs of all time

  • Warlord_Irochi

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 8:34 pm GMT

    @SalarianChemist:

    "I'm very surprised we haven't seen Dreamcast games on Xbox Live"

    Eeem... "Ikaruga", hmm... "Triggerheart Exelica"

  • Warlord_Irochi

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 8:32 pm GMT

    Cool, though I never liked FFVIII

    I'll stick to VII and Tactics.

  • hardace1708

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 7:16 pm GMT

    that salarian chemist dude is always here when it concerns exclusivity and rpg games.

  • lidstrom07

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 4:19 pm GMT

    solidusScott, FF9 is a great RPG that references many previous FF's in sometimes-strong, sometimes-subtle ways. It's my co-favorite in the series with FF7.

  • coldsauce09

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 1:26 am GMT

    JUST AS I THOUGHT!!!! salarian chemist did made comment!!

    I LOLED outside!

  • Thunderstarter

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 4:55 pm GMT

    Rejoice! Our prayers have been answered! It's only logical that FFIX will follow FFVIII. THANK YOU SQUARE!

  • kavadias1981

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 3:02 pm GMT

    Thats funny. "Coming Soon"? It came out this morning hehe.

  • solidusScott

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 2:54 pm GMT

    Definitely getting this one. I haven't played FF VIII in years. Can't wait for them to put up FF IX cause its the only Final Fantasy I haven't played.

  • SalarianChemist

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 2:25 pm GMT

    PSN and Xbox Live Arcade are both great places for games like Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8.

    Personally, I'm very surprised we haven't seen Dreamcast games on Xbox Live, since many Dreamcast games used Windows operating systems for development.

  • Windblade91

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 2:18 pm GMT

    i didnt enjoy VIII, in general SE has failed in delivering a game that could surpass VII, i love XIII but i have my expectation set on Versus being the one to redefine FF like VII did, that or w/e idea Nomura has in that mind of his that he wont tell anybody about for VII's next sequel

  • Petch1984

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 2:05 pm GMT

    PSone FFs on PSP not PS3 FTW IMO. LOL and so on...

  • Cloud310

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 11:58 am GMT

    Loving FFVII on my PSP Go, can't wait for the rest.

  • Kleeyook

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 11:40 am GMT

    Plz bring it to PAL PS Store too!

  • Caer_Death

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 11:18 am GMT

    I would rather stick a pitchfork through my eyes than play that game on the PS3. Unless, of course, it was remastered in HD. Then I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

  • mav_destroyer

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 11:00 am GMT

    i was waiting for this!

  • Lightchaos-20693173927190915074555969291770

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 10:32 am GMT

    This game just came out on the Playstation Store, yet this article says "coming soon" LOL.

  • MSG-Deathscythe

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 6:17 am GMT

    also, to those who are still talking trash about this game - just stfu!. it's either you are too dumb to understand the junction system or you didn't play this game at all.

  • MSG-Deathscythe

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 6:10 am GMT

    @petch1984: fighting omega weapon was one of the things which made this game very memorable for me. i lost my Laguna Loir card in the card game (which could be converted to hero potions) and it took me a very long time to beat this enemy. Even with Auto-haste, Auto-Aura, etc. I still had to use the Lionheart quite a lot. I think it's one of the best limit breaks ever created in a FF game. So to those who did not fight Omega Weapon on your first run of the game, (it's not the same as Ultima Weapon), make sure you take this sidequest right before you go to the final battle with Ultimecia.

  • CipherZilla

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 1:19 am GMT

    NICE! That's AWESOME and a half!!

  • gamepunk86

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 11:58 pm GMT

    that's cool i still have this game. but they should add some more games and finally add some ps2 compatibility please! i have no idea if it is doable w/ updates but i'm just making some hopeful wishes. awesome game by the way i really just remember the super hard boss battle at the end.

  • Ardain

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 11:45 pm GMT

    Yeah!!! I'm Playing it on my PSP right now. it is already on PSN. It's Freaking AWESOME!!

  • LordelX

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 9:36 pm GMT

    BtmnHatesRbn said:"I want dragons, chocobos, Santa Clause, moggles, silliness, castles that sink in the sand, sarcastic megalomaniacs, planets with two moons..."

    Amen to that. But Santa Clause made his apprearance in Secret of Mana, not Final Fantasy....right?

  • coldsauce09

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 9:07 pm GMT

    if salarian chemist made a comment that this is coming to xbox360 as well... i will go outside and LOL

  • Solid-Snake1990

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 8:15 pm GMT

    You can get ff8 right now

  • greekmafioso1

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 7:43 pm GMT

    just remake 7 , like thier doing everything possible before going to that last option in making it with ps3 graphics. they want to get full pays worth out of everyway possible till they finalize they will make ff7 the same but with ps3 HD Thats what is going on if you have not noticed garrenty, you might not believe it but just watch in the near future.

  • Quinzark

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 7:15 pm GMT

    OMG thats so cool. My copy is scratched (lent it to a mate -_- ) so i'd love to have a downloadable option. unfortunately i have no ps3 sooo thats that out of question ... for now

  • BtmnHatesRbn

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 6:58 pm GMT

    Final Fantasy I through VII, including off-shoots like Mystic Quest, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Breath of Fire (well, that's not really an off-shoot), and the original Game Boy games (Adventure and Legend series) all included a few things that made Final Fantasy fun: medievalism.

    Final Fantasy VIII appears to take place in the universe of Highlander II. (If you get that reference, then you know I didn't give in a compliment.)

    Final Fantasy IX returned to the what made the series fun. Then the boring, crappy, speaking-out-of-sync dark movie comes out, the eye-candy only X and X-2, and the terrible EverQuest wanna-bees since.

    I want dragons, chocobos, Santa Clause, moggles, silliness, castles that sink in the sand, sarcastic megalomaniacs, planets with two moons...

  • im-a-roustabout

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 6:49 pm GMT

    @ayanematrix

    I don't think they are doing this for people who already own a "mint condition copy". It's for the people who want it on their PS3's and PSP's and it's definitly for people who have not played it.

  • InN3rChi011

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 6:41 pm GMT

    lol i dont need this i still have this ps1 game outside near my ps2.

  • Crisiscore23

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 6:09 pm GMT

    Zidaneski...i feel you pain, though i did have my chance of getting through the final cutscene, i am more the happy to get the chance of doing it again. YAY FFVIII.

  • Zidaneski

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 5:08 pm GMT

    Awesome, FFVIII always freezes on me half-way through the ending cutscene. Now I will finally have closure on the game,...for the 8th time.

  • Zloth2

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 4:31 pm GMT

    Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl. Girl finds boy. Girl loses boy and dog. Boy finds dog.... and so on and so on, ad nausium. Then there's the "oh gee, we all knew each other when we were in school and just forgot" moment. Weak.

  • HerbalVideogame

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 4:31 pm GMT

    Final Fantasy VIII rules, you guys will file blasphemy, but I dig it so much more than VII. The setting, the characters, the music, I love it.

  • solidine

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 4:07 pm GMT

    I still have the actual games, though this was the worst of the PS1 FF's.

  • makiveli100

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 3:49 pm GMT

    I hope 9 follows this one. I still have 7 and 8 in disk form but no 9.....

  • TheLemonGelati

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 3:41 pm GMT

    Niice, I was just thinking about FF8 the other day. Tried the good old PS1 disc but no dice.. Some of my favorite FF moments are in 8. Looking forward to the release.

  • qpitty

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 3:15 pm GMT

    This is good news. I played 7 on the psn and liked it. And I started getting into 4. I'm ready for 8.

  • xxx_rinad

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 3:13 pm GMT

    wooww Final Fantasy 8 is coming back i soo love that game
    even do i have this game on pc i dont play it that much but on ps3 it might be more fun

  • TheKvazzy

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 2:13 pm GMT

    nice i enjoyed this number

  • Pajamasammi

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 1:54 pm GMT

    @ oneligas Too bad square said they're never remaking 7 as a next gen. And yes, 6 was amazing, and I think dissidia was the closest to best remake.

  • Legatoblue87

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 1:39 pm GMT

    Great, time to collect all the "people" cards in the card game and become the triple triad master...yeah

  • demonkingx5

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 1:24 pm GMT

    um gamespot are so late its been on psn 4 some weeks now atleast in the japan psn

  • lamprey263

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 1:21 pm GMT

    good news about FFVIII, about friggin' time, it should have been on PSN a long time ago; and where's FFIX while we're at it?

  • oneligas posted Dec 17, 2009 12:44 pm GMT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    oneligas

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 12:44 pm GMT (hide)

    The only FF's that are worth a darn are 4-5-6-7 and the only FF i will ever buy is a next gen remake of any of these.

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