Mike_L on 29 November 2016
Final Fantasy XV - A ten year long journey
Today, Final Fantasy XV released. A game that was first revealed in May 2006, when Square Enix showed it under the name Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Between then and now, the week of the game’s launch, the world has changed in some pretty dramatic ways. To really hammer in just how long we’ve waited for the 15th Final Fantasy and how much can happen in 10 years, follow along for some of the highlights of the past decade.
- Square Enix have released 45 new Final Fantasy games and phone games
- Bioware have released Mass Effect 1-3, Star Wars: The Old Republic and Dragon Age 1-3
- The entire Uncharted franchise has released
- The entire Assassin’s Creed franchise has released
- The entire Gears of War franchise has released
- The entire Souls franchise has released
- Nintendo has gone from their 6th gen home console (GameCube) to their 9th gen (Switch)
- THQ have gone bankrupt, been acquired by Nordic Games and revived as THQ Nordic
- Apple introduced the iPhone, its first smartphone, in 2007
- TV shows like Breaking Bad and Mad Men have aired their entire runs
- Streaming TV, movies and music has become the norm
- Platforms like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Video have all launched since the game’s reveal
- US citizens have voted in three separate presidential elections
- Barack Obama has completed his entire presidency
- The financial crisis has hit the World
- Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia have been separated to form three distinct countries
- South Sudan has been separated from Sudan to form two distinct countries
