"We'll see. But they've done it multiple times now. And we've seen in multiple interviews that the people who work on the Final Fantasy series don't really seem to care about critisism or reviews, or even sales. Just about 'their vision'. And that can be a bad sign, as even if they think their vision is the 'right' one and just keep pressing on...when sales are going down."
"u cnt blame them. They did cater to fans once. whn old skool fans wnted ld school FF they gave them FF9 & it sold the worst out of all PS FF's (FF13 will outsell it soon).
Sales aren't going dwn, ff13 will do more than ff9 & 12. When a FF does below 5 Million its time to wrry."
On the first comment, i'm pretty sure that Yochi Wada will never let Kitase & Toriyama have full control of their 'vision' for the next installment, and i dont think he'll let someone else have that much control over a project for FF15, so i have no idea what road that will take. but look at Yatsumi Matsuno, who wanted to make Basch the main character of FF12. sqaure didnt let him have his vision, which i think would've been way better than Vaan & Penelo, so its anybodys guess.
i also think that releasing FF9 on the PSN will give them indication of where they can take the series next. if it does better than FF8 or not will give them a good idea of what the fans want next. and i think that the odds were stacked pretty high against FF9 when it came out, so thats why it wasnt as successful. i mean, the super-deformed look didnt help after the photo-realism brought by FF8 and it did come out as PS2 was taking off when PS1 was going out.
i'm not trying to say catering to the fans is the best idea, but its the lesser of two evils, when catering to the developers means a strict vision that may, may not work. yeah sales are looking good for FF13, but i think if they've sold less than FF8/FF10 (about 7.5-8 mil), wada will look at that and i'm pretty sure wada wants to exceed that because sales have gone down since those installments.
