Things change. Among them, final fantasy development cycles. The biggest sign here is that Durango/Orbis will be here by the end of 2013, and given how long in advance SE announces stuff, there simply isn't time.

FFIX was announced 6 months before it was released.

In a different world. When was the last time SE did that for a high profile game? The lag for Dragon Quest X, for instance, was almost 4 years.

I would hope so, but to be honest the only two coming out this generation will be 13-3 and FF versus 13 heck even Versus 13 might get delayed until next gen.

I do prefer this way of laying out your argument :)

Looking your information, I think your onto something here, although I'm still sure SE will just reannounce FFversus 13 as FF15 since people dislike anything FF13 related right now :/

They won't. Square-Enix likes building up hype for these games a long time in advance, and all they showed to us last E3 that is any indication of a new FF game is an engine that takes a lot more power than what the current systems can offer. I think that is plenty indication that their plans are towards the distant, next gen future.

... well, we might get a FFXIII-3. But that's because that engine has been perfected and they can easily churn out games in that fashion a lot faster.

FFXIV 1.0 was announced at E3 2009 and then released September the next year.

That only depends if FFXV isn't already in development. If FFXV is not already being made then they may change FF Versus XIII to FFXV.

The FFXIV fiasco pushed everything back by two years like they said so you need to take that into consideration.

By XV, you obviously mean Versus XIII that will be renamed at TGS.

What Boutros said. 2 year delays on all their HD projects, not even worth releasing them at this point.