Whilst Square Enix said they won't be bringing the blu-ray demo of FFXIII to the west, they meant the 'blu-ray' part rather than the demo. They're checking the possibility of bringing it as a downloadable, which will surely make a large chunk of the PS3-owning population very happy indeed.

Yoshinori Kitase, producer of the game, told VideoGamer:

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.

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.

Great, great, great news. Cross your fingers, folks. Read more »