Is this the only thing we have?

Because hes not denying hes working on FF15, and theres no way he would amit to working on an FF title in an interview. Sqaure Enix are very tight lipped until they offically announce their games. He might not have been allowed to say anything during that interview.

Honestly I don't think its just about Hiroyuki Ito. Hes made it clear he dosent involve himself with the story. I agree their needs to be more emphasis on non-linear environmental desgin.

Even that section of FF13 Gran Pulse was beyond boring because there was it was monotonus, repititive and uncessary to the story.

Ito can only do so much, it really needs to be Hiroshi Minagawa and the FF Tactics team who do the story because even if Ito did FF15, the story would be awful if Toriyama and Kitase were involved. Even Nomura's inovolment would damage the game because of the convoluted mess that Kingdom Hearts has turned into.

Honestly, if they're stupid enough to give Toriyama a main FF again, they deserve the mess it comes with.

In the same interview, Ito aso said that he would like to evolve the ATB system beyond what he did with FFXII but current gen harware (PS3/360) is not powerful enough to do what he wants to do. I guess that may be a hint that he will return to the FF series with PS4/720.

Also, Ito is a good writer. He co-wrote FFIX with Hironobu Sakaguchi. However, I do agree that it would be good to have Hiroshi Minagawa and the Tactics Ogre PSP team to hep him with the writing.

Well I don't want to give anyone flase hope, but if we look at FF12 that game went through development problems and to the best of my knowledge spent a lot longer in development than it should have.

That meant that FF13 which was already in development for the PS2 at the time was postponed to the PS3. That meant FF13 lost one year in development (which they admitted) and the difficulty in programming for the PS3 architecture meant the game took a very long time to develop. Then they had to port the game to the Xbox which was no easy task because the platforms featured very different architectures. Between the time it was announced (E3 2006) and its release date, it took about 4 years for them to release that title.

Since FF13 however Yochi Wada has been getting these FF games out every two years. FF13-2, now Lightning Returns and I expect FF13 Versus will be coming out in the near future. Granted I'm basing that on the fact it has spent 7 years in development. Anyway my point is I very much doubt Wada wants to release FF15 halfway through the console cycle in the same way FF13 was released.

Thus based on what we can see from Sqaure Enix, they have learned to get these games out much faster than before. We know that FF15 (well we think theres good evidence) will be announced this E3. Based on the accessibility of developing for the platforms this time I think the next main FF will be released within 3 years.

Then theres taking into account how long they've had to work with Luminous, personally I think theres a good chance the game has already been in development a while. I know Hashimoto said 'We are preparing for development...". Then that could mean game has already gone through the pre-production phase, and they are beginning development now. Lightning Returns hasn't been released yet and we don't know the release date. I think its unlikely Kitase and Toriyama will have time to work on Lightning Returns and have something to show for FF15 at E3.

I'm not sure what Wada has planned with Ito, whether its more mobile games or whatnot. From what I've heard Guardian Cross was financially very successful. Anyway, I think the staff (hopefully) for FF15 will be Hiroshi Minagawa and his Zodiac Brave team. I have faith they will bring the series back.

He's working on the latest FF.

Won't happen

The good developers at SquareEnix are Sony Fanboys and don't want their games as a Multiplat.
Wada wants the west or rather the FPS Community interested in the games of SE cause they are bigger and he only has Tory as a choice then.
Wada doesn't understand ZERO(the interest of FPS People) is less than what they have on PS3/4/Sony...He still thinks he gets 25 Million sold units when he is destroying the whole reputation Sony(and before Nintendo) did build up for Square(soft)

Everyone else is doomed to make trailers,tech demos and handheldgames.
As long as Nomura isn't getting lead of SquareEnix nothing won't change - Say bye to a High Quality Final Fantasy and everything else as long it isn't Sony Exclusive cause the good developers won't work on other platforms.

There hasn't been a high quality FF game since FFX. The golden age of FF6, 7, and 8 is back in the 90's. That's a long time ago now, many of the important development staff including Takahashi, Sakaguchi, Matsuno, Mitsuda, and Uematsu have moved on.