Square-Enix using Nintendo to pay for Final Fantasy 13 etc?

[Bored4life]

the_bloodwalker said:

Bored4life said:

FF is exactly what is bringing down SE at the moment.Due to their insecurities they have gone into a play safe mode when it comes to their titles.Look at the sheer number of FF ports, remakes and spinoffs being made in such a period of time.The problem is that most of SE fans aren't truly SE fans, but FF fans.

SE have released quite a number of other well made rpgs but due to SE's attitude of playing safe, they push the FF games into the focus of the audience instead of games such as TWEWY and the like.

Unless they can reinvent the series much like Nintendo did with NSMB,Galaxy and MKDS/Wii I can see FF starting to shrink slowly as the decade goes on.

SE should have a dedicated team on the side trying to create a new/existing(preferably new, since it would be fresh) franchise with the intent of it being greater than FF and attract newer players as well as the old FF fans.Once they have absorbed the old market they can then focus on making FF with smaller budgets and try to reinvent it now that less pressure is being put on the expectation of the game,or simply scrap the series altogether if FF doesn't transition too well into this 3rd generation of gaming that the DS/Wii has spawned.

I think the teams have been made already. Their first battlefront is the DS to explore possibilities on Wii.

Also, look at the Crystal Cronicles Franchise, The DS and WiiWare approach are the first signs that they want to make it a franchise on its own... They just need to take out the FF from it because they are very different. They gave a lot more support to the dev team

And with the port of Chrono Trigger out of the blue, many can speculate that they plan to revive it, for it had potential to be as good or even better than FF

 

 

Agreed.The name will decrease the value in the eyes of gamers since even though this game might be of AAA quality it will still only be seen "as another spinoff title for Wii while HD consoles get the main ones".