How many songs FFVII OST have? Imagine it all recorded by an orchestra and with 7.1 quality. How much space it will consume?

Pure hours has little to do with graphical asset duplication. 

The difference is that FF13 is likely very homoginized, while FF7 had numerous different settings. 

Additionally FF7 likely had a lot more minor characters as the game did have quite a few.

Dragon Age : Origins and Mass Effect, for example, are much simpler games than Final Fantasy VII. Dou you remember all important NPCs in FFVII? Now put voice on all of them and a character model with Final Fantasy XIII quality. I'm starting to think Squenix is right about that. It is sad but it is true : JRPGs on present generation can't (yet) be done like they were in the past. Japanese developers (as Square-Enix) mastered previous generations. Now they are declining. I believe on a recover .

Definitely. Let us not forget about the overworld either.

Wanting to do that on the same scale it was in 1997 with FFXIII-like graphics and detail would be quite the task, I'd imagine.

I think it' s true if they want to use the same graphic as FFXIII, but if they use a worse graphic it will be more likely.

Who wants that graphics? I' ll be very very happy to have FFVII in Vesperia, or Eternal sonata, or Star ocean' s graphic. That will make possible developing FFVII remake in less than 3 years.

I smell lots of PR smack talk here, I think they just want to silence us all over this whole FF7 remake thing, 10 years is too long for a development cycle.
They already have an engine, they already have the knowledge required to code for PS3, the storyline and characters have already been created for it.
Seriously I think it would only take them 3 years to do, they don't need to change anything other than the graphics, the story and mechanics can be kept, that would make me happy.

stupid company, the game is a seller for sure, i know a good remake will be hard when we put the fact that the game is 13 years old and we are now living in the HD generation, but this is what gaming companies do, they make games, don't they ??

Well, if they are going to do it, they should do it properly

I agree!! In fact, I don't want them to do it yet. I'm hoping they do it until they run out of ideas and need something in the mindset of a major block buster as a PS4 title. Thats right, I said it. PS4! Do it right bitches, or don't touch it at all.

1) If you NEED FFXIII graphic I don' t know what to think...

2) ... "properly" means "with FFXIII graphic". People will not be happy about a FFVII with HD graphic at level of games like Tales of Vesperia? Then SQEX is right about the impossibility of creating such a game.