Yeah i actully agree, that dosent prove they're planning a remake, even though its unlikely it could happen eventually. it just proves that sqaure's (Normura i guess) ego hit an all time high because of the success of Advent Children.

then again, Kitase has said that the compliation of FF7 will conclude on FF7's 20th aniversary, and some other guy said 'the best is yet to come', so i think that when they've mastered the crystal tools engine, they will do it, and maybe 8 & 9 as well. who knows, they may not, i'm not bothered really, they should focus on newer titles.

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.

I know it doesn't prove anything. I was commenting on his attitude.

Sales are going down.  Its a lopsided and gradual decline, but sales are going down.

Its also a case of different goals.  Wada and the 'CEOs' (or financial and advertising side) excpected FFXIII to do as good or better than FFVII, simply because it was on a new platform and was 'bigger and better' than FFVII.  Plus because they were pumping more money into it than any FF game ever seen.  Where the developers of the game such as Kitase and Nomura were just trying to make a game and didn't have any real goal in mind.

That's the problem.  They don't have a focus.  The same thing happened with FFX as well.  People consider that game a success because it sold well, but it still didn't reach the sales of FFVII.  And the goal set by the company was to surpass the sales of FFVII, as they put a lot more money and advertising into FFX.

I already corrected u on this in another thread. U keep saying this all the time but ur wrong. When they wer talking to their investors they sed FF13 is expcted to ship 6 Million. Later on they told a magazine they "hope" it can sell like ff7, duh, they did tht to hype it. Their tru expctations are those they laid out in financial meeting. And that was 6 Million.

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6230719.html

Wht is the point in correcting u in the othr thread if u jst ignore it?

So FF13 will do bettr than expcted in sales. Wit FF10 however they sed they expcted 10 million in the financial investors meeting, so tht did underperform.

First of all, the link you just provided me was to another magazine interview.  Not an investors briefing.  Second of all, stating to the press or stating to investors you want a game to sell a certain amount wasn't my main point here.  My main point was each title, they keep pumping more and more money into the advertising and funding of each game.  As if they EXPECT it to sell more.  They can say to either their investors, magazines or Jack Thompson for all it matters that they expect it to sell a certain amount, but their effort shows that they want it to perform better.

If someone sells 100 apples by putting forth $10 in advertising, and then turns around and sells only 80 apples with $50 woth of advertising, they can't say it was all 'as planned'.

They were cancelled when Square-Enix realized that it could never possibly please the fanbase. Any change they could make would induce massive baw, but changing nothing would also induce massive baw. The only winning move was not to play, so they didn't.

Edit: nvm don't want to argue about this. Deleted what I said

maybe because the PS1 versions are backward compatible with the PS2?

 Except that FFX cost less to develop than FFIX :D