According to a recent Square Enix financial discussion, they plan to release 11 Million units of software in the second half of this fiscal year, amoung those is Final Fantasy XII.
This puts the release range anywhere from October 1st , 2003 to March 31st, 2004.
Source :
Square Insider------------
I'm personally looking forward to this, not that I know much about at the moment. though.
Still it's Final Fantasy and that's something I look forward to.