Final Fantasy XIII has been in development for over five years, has involved hundreds of staff and has cost the publisher a ton of money. So you can see why there'll never be another Final Fantasy game like it!

Speaking with Sony on the official European PlayStation blog, the game's producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama have said:

If you consider that during Final Fantasy XIII's development, at peak time the team consisted of over 300 people. It was a huge team, plus it took a several long years to get the game finished. So, if Mr Wada meant that we would never make another Final Fantasy title with the similar number of people, taking as long as FFXIII did, we would agree.

Obviously in the future we want to be much more efficient. Having worked on XIII, we feel that we have got much better at making good games for high definition consoles. In the future our teams will be smaller and more effectively run.

Thank god, wasting so much time and people on one game is not normal and not a good idea, no matter how good the game is.

For that matter i do hope that they start returning to a more traditional FF schematic.

There will never be another game like ________.

Unless your name is Blizzard

yeah but bliazzard make games that are far longer lasting and imo better than ff games. so i dont mind :D

Valve? lols =)

Stop posting exceptions to the rule! not every company can release only aswome games...

Blizzard and Valve make the best games hands-down.

*Ignore*

Well, there may be another game like FFXIII, the only difference is it won't take as long to make, and won't require as much people.

It's great that they think like this though, instead of "for the next game we will increase dev time to eight years, and 500k people will be involved. Half of our budget could eliminate starvation!"