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A203D on 23 September 2010
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hikaruchan said:
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darthdevidem01 said:
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Matjes said:

I hope Versus will be released in 2011 even in Europe....

That would be nice...But I got the feeling that the game will be released in spring 2012-.-

Holiday 2011 seems reasonable to me, it should be a worldwide similtaneous release hopefully, like what they wanted with FF13. i think it really takes the piss how long they take with these development cycles, 4-5 years is too long to wait for anything to come out imo.

Its because too many FF spin offs are made now.

They stop staff working on spin offs and make 3 teams, one working on one main FF releasing every 1.5 years apart from one another. And maybe only do 1 or 2 spin offs.

Yeah i think when Sakaguchi was there it was a lot better, they would have a new FF every 2 or 3 years. now hes gone, imo theres way too many sequels and too many spin offs. and whats worst is that they're not necessarily good, ie Dirge of Cerberus, Revenant Wings, etc.

The Old Squaresoft was awesome they had alot of RPG and other tiles other then FF & KH and where very efficient at getting there titles released regularly, it is sad that now they are less efficient then before the merger with Enix.

look at the history Final Fantasy VI was released in Japan in 1994, Final Fantasy VII released in 1997, Final Fantasy VIII released 1999, Final Fantasy IX released 2000, Final Fantasy X released 2001 and Final Fantasy X-2 with I consider a direct sequel and not a Spin-Off released 2003. all of them 2-3 years apart and they even released other titles in between those FF games.

Square had I believe 2 teams for Final Fantasy games back then with some interaction between the teams as well just look at Final Fantasy VIII for example work started on it in 1997 and it was released in 1999 while at the same time Final Fantasy IX was developed alongside Final Fantasy VIII by a different team and released in 2000 and development of Final Fantasy X started in 1999. I believe that releasing every 2-3 years with 2 teams to develop the games is the most optimal time for a game series as big as Final Fantasy is. 

Sakaguchi-san unfortunately due to the failed the spirits within movie was forced to become more or less a figurehead at Square-Enix so he really had no choice but to leave to form Mistwalker I just wish he would not hat the PS3 and develop a game on it someday.    

Well i dunno what his plans are, but i dont think the JRPG fanbase is on the Wii, and judging from sales of Lost Odssey and that other game (dunno what its called) on the 360, theres not that many RPG fans there either. i think after the Last Story and possibily after Versus he might work with SE on the next FF. i know it dosent seem realistic, but i think theres a small possbility Wada might try to bring him into the fold for the next one.

i dont think Sakaguchi could do anything for the PS3 before because MS gave him the resources for his company, but now the dust has settled and its been a few years, i think he could develop for the PS3.

Square still have 2 FF production teams, theres been no news of the FF12 team in years. so it could just be that only Kitase's production team are the ones doing the main FF's at the moment. if thats the case then its possible, we will instead have Kitase and Toriyama doing FF15 and indeed darth could be right, they will annouce FF15 this Jan.