On a much sadder note (or happier, depending on how you’re taking it), Square Enix dropped a massive nuclear on Sony camp at the 2008 E3 convention. It was a shocker, Final Fantasy XIII no longer a PS3 exclusive!

Oh yeah! The next installment is making its way onto the Xbox 360 as well, but only for the American and European market (OZ and NZ inclusive, hopefully). The game is going to have a simultaneous worldwide release (not Japan though), but Squeenix have not set a date yet. Oh well, more time to polish the game I guess.

Motomu Toriyama is directing the game. He directed Final Fantasy X-2, and while that game is not terribly awesome, I hope he is up to the task for XIII. I saw the new trailer, still a little bit too Star Wars-y just like XII. Come on people, whatever happens to the good ol’ classic fantasy formula? Mages, witches, flying ponies? People running around in robot suit is so last millennium, I could vomit. But from what I can see, Shiva and Ifrit are back!!!! They are like the meanest summons ever. The Espers in XII are like total pussies, I was so pissed when they left out the classic summons from XII due to the fact that Yasumi Matsuno had to step down from the director’s chair because of his health.

Back in the designing team is the awesomeness duo, Nobuo Uematsu and Yoshitaka Amano. Final Fantasy without these two is like Tuesday night with no free delivery pizza from Hell. Other than that, there’s nothing much as the game is still in development, and fanboys like me should know Final Fantasy takes a lot of time to develop. This is just conjecture, but I might be 27 (ark!!) by the time its out in the English speaking territory.

p/s: Hironobu Sakaguchi is still the boss though. Nobody makes Final Fantasy like he did.

Ok, now that I am back to my normal life, I can resume updating my blog on a daily basis like last time. The first update is of course, the iPhone 3G launch last week. At first I thought the launch would be madness, but it was boring as hell. Our store did not do a midnight launch because of the location. It was done at 8 in the morning, and as expected, there’s no crowd. There are only 5 people queuing outside our store, sadness beyond reasonable doubt. I think the people here are not as passionate as people from other parts of the world. To them the iPhone is just a fad, nothing to ga ga about. Our stock went from 40 to 0 rather quickly though, but mostly because of pre-orders.

Oh well, some photos from the launch. Nothing interesting. Like I said, boring as hell. And I’m still without an iPhone, just FYI.

I know, I know. I haven’t post anything constructive or demeaning in my blog lately. Thanks to the stupid iPhone launch and erratic weather, I just don’t have the energy. I mean, I like that device and everything, but Vodafone is making it so hard for us! Initially I thought Apple is behind all these fucking protocols. But apparently, some high up buttmunch at Vodafone head office thought it would funny to make us consultants look like prancing idiots. How do you sell something when you know nothing about it?

Anyway, they finally dropped the lame stand at our store today. We had to remove one huge Blackberry cabinet to make way for the miniscule stand. And get this, we are not allowed to display the “display” iPhone until tomorrow morning. Fucking shithead! Its not a mystery anymore, people know what it looks like! God, people are not stupid. To make matters worst, they had the most ridiculous pricing plan ever. I won’t even write it here because it is like a total murder suicide. That is my iPod Touch you are looking at in the picture.

40 units. That’s it. That is the magical number. So I had to wait for the next shipment for mine because an asshole bumped me off the list. Ok, maybe not an asshole. For a CEO of one of the biggest banks in New Zealand, he is a nice person. But still, damn! Now I have to continue using the stupid Viewty (which by the way, one of the crappest piece of shit ever) and its way too overpriced retarded cousin, the Prada (by the way, Miuccia, what the hell are you thinking agreeing to this???)

The launch is tomorrow morning and I can’t wait to see people lining up outside the store and getting the “Sorry, we’re all out of iPhones because Vodafone is being like a total bitch. I can put you on the waiting list, but by the time you get yours, Apple would’ve announced a new, much better iPhone, with a friggin’ laser gun attached to it. I suggest you call customer service and shout at the Egyptians.”

P/s: if you don’t get the last line about the Egyptians, let me explain it to you. Aside from the usual reasons for being a bitch, Vodafone is also a cheap bastard. They outsourced their customer service operations to Egypt. Some of them can’t even speak English!

5 more days, baby. 5 MORE DAYS! I'm so excited, I could vomit!