Why does S-E Always Announce the NEXT FF before the current ones out?

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AkibaFan said:

@torillian

but they even show trailers of the "new FF's"

that negatively affected FF9 & FF12's sales

both being only just at 5 million

while FF8,FF10,FF7 are 8 million +

SURELY they saw that trend!

Well you can't exactly attribute their low sales with being announced too early.

Remember, FF9 was a big WTF for those who had only experience FF7 and 8, because it looked like they went from futuristic to medieval. They would not have known it was a throw back to the old school, so I'm guessing reaction wasn't great for that game.

FF12 was met with mixed opinion with the fans. I won't say it split down the middle, but I haven't seen an FF with this much difference in opinion in a while.

Also, both these games released late in the life cycle of two heavily pirated systems.