IGN Editor-in-Chief Hilary Goldstein writes:
"We were given a PS3 build of Final Fantasy XIII first, which became our primary build to play through for review. Unfortunately, PS3 systems around the world were rendered useless for more than a day. This affected our debugs as well and made it impossible for our reviewer, Ryan Clements, to play the game.
We feel it's important that Ryan finish an entire playthrough and have time to reflect on Final Fantasy XIII before writing a review and deciding on a score. You can expect impressions on the first 30 hours of the game to go live this Friday. The review will be up on Monday, March 8. "