Square held a press confrence at Tokyo on May 15^th to unveil the upcoming Final Fantasy VIII. The production team is similar to the previous one, with Executive Producer Hironobu Sakaguchi, Director Yoshinori Kitase, Character Designer Tetsuya Nomura and Composer Nobuo Uematsu. Although the team did not reveal much about the game, it did hint that the theme is love and Final Fantasy VIII addresses everything the team had wanted to do with Final Fantasy VII. Also, characters were raw polygons in Final Fantasy VII. But now textures have been added and polygon count has been increased.

A playable demo of the Final Fantasy VIII will be included with the action RPG Brave Fencer Musashiden coming July 17^th in Japan.