Square Enix has revealed that we won't be seeing Final Fantasy XIII this year.

While fielding questions at a financial briefing, the company's president, Yoichi Wada, said of the game, "It will still take a bit more time. At the very least, [a release] this fiscal year is definitely out of the question.”

So, at the earliest, it'll be April 2008 before we see the sequel make its PS3-only appearance.

The PS3's looking increasingly starved of platform exclusives. As SPOnG told you last week, it's looking increasingly likely that Metal Gear Solid 4 won't arrive until 2008, either. Throw in the loss of GTA IV as a PS3 exclusive and Sony's looking pushed for a big hitter to contend with Halo 3 this year.