A little while back, Square Enix announced that it would be releasing Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360, instead of the PS3 only.

Now, it looks like the dual release will essentially be a port from one console to another. The game’s developer said at a recent Square Enix event that the Xbox 360 version won’t be developed until the PS3 version is complete.  The team doesn’t even have the Xbox 360 dev kit yet.

Square Enix also recently announced that it will release FFXIII in Japan in 2009, ruling out any hope of a release this year.  They also said a demo of the game will ship with the Blu-ray release of Advent Children next March.

Since development of the Xbox 360 version hasn’t started, though, the North American and European releases of Final Fantasy XIII will almost certainly be delayed.

Square Enix, the makers of the Final Fantasy series and other popular RPGs, have announced that their highly-acclaimed SNES title Chrono Trigger will be re-released on the Nintendo DS this holiday season.

Teaser sites released on the Japanese and North American websites, along with a press release from the company, confirmed the news today, reports RPG news blog Roleplay.

Chrono Trigger is one of the most popular RPGs of the Super NES era, selling over 2.5 million copies worldwide.  Interestingly enough, neither the SNES nor PlayStation versions of the game were released in Europe.  Although the news today only confirms North America and Japan, similar re-releases from the Final Fantasy series did include Europe, and it’s possible that another announcement is on the horizon, although probably with a later release date.