Metallox said:
That was some sublime management right there, kind of sad that Square Enix lost that rhythm, otherwise we would've gotten Final Fantasy XXVII in 2027, like Deus Ex Human Revolution predicted.
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It had less to do with bad management and more with spinoff games taking the place of those mainline entries. OTOH, FFXV was unique in that it seemed to be such a bottomless resource sink that it cannibalized one of three titles for this gen. Every gen has had three FF titles with similar production values. Every one except this one, which had embarrassing manpower issues and gave us one half game, a huge game that was way beyond Square's capabilities and a third of a game that was good at the expense of needing to be virtual kebab.
But lol at those who think XV was a blight of some sort even though it outsold XIII, who genuinely started the DLC craze after FFXIII-2. XV was supposed to be the kind of GaaS-led FF that was going to get the Bethesda treatment until the team gave up and Tabata abandoned ship to produce a game for the now cancelled Olympics.
Ka-pi96 said:
I doubt they can get back to 3 mainline titles a gen, but 2 should definitely be possible. Especially if they use different teams for each of them, and don't have any screw-ups that require shifting all of their resources to something else *cough* FF14 *cough* |
I really do hope they switch to Hindu numbers rather than Roman at some point if they go that far. It's going to be awfully weird if we ever get to a Final Fantasy L. I actually had to look up what 50 was in Roman numbers, so I doubt I'm the only one that wouldn't immediately recognise FFL as FF50 
Arabic numerals.
Also, a question I've had is why they don't give the Evermore treatment to FF...
