@Soriku: Okay, oyou convinced me, let's wait till Jump Festa, but if nothing is shown by then, what would you think about SE? I will give up already and really wouldn't care about them anymore.

I still care that's why I want them to announce, but I hope the upcoming announcements are not wine catalogues, virtual schools or travelling guides, cause I will get banned from this site if that happened. (I know many would hope fot that to happen, since they want me out of here :P)

Soul Eater is being released a month before TGS is held. They are no going use floorspace and time on a low profile game that's been out for a month already. I have no idea why this concept baffles so many people, but I guess facts and logic don't really mean much when people start whining.

Also, I found the original graph with the 3 empty nodes:

http://www.finalfantasyxiii.us/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/fabula_nova_crystallis1.jpg

The 6 nodes does not mean there will be 6 FFXIII games - the number isn't even decided. It means there could be at least 6 FNC related products. It's polymorphic like the FF7 compilation, so it can take the form of novels, film, manga, or even an OVA.

Japanese talking people, help me there, my japanese is old and rusty.
There's written the goal for profit (if I'm not mistaken, or is it revenue?) below the images of the FFVII products and below the nova crystallis products. Oku means 1,000,000 right? I can't remember. So they got 500M yen from FFVII and expect 1B yen from Nova Crystallis, is that right?

As for SE, I think that will be their loss if they lose the Wii crowd. They're losing me already, I've lost any interest in FFXIII and all its derivatives. All of this is a mess that doesn't make sense to me. I can't help but feel lots of japanese devs are screwing themselves badly over this gen. I expect the landscape of who is good/bad and who does which kind of games, to be completely changed by the end of this gen.

SE puts lots of games on DS, but none are good support (remakes). Only the Enix part does some things decently. I feel SE is going down fast, and I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling that.

Just like Mistwalker. For me, the sales of BD+ are just confirmation of what I knew since a long time: they've made themselves irrelevant. Even Level 5 has to be careful.

I'm not in fear of my favorite genre becoming irrelevant, because even a SRPG like FE, which is supposed to be niche in the JRPG genre, sold more than most traditional JRPG on other consoles this gen. This just shows that sth is very very wrong.

That's how much they plan to spend on the projects, not make. FNC is getting twice the money pumped into.

Mistwalker has always been irrelevant, and it became frightingly apparent at ASH's debut. They came out of the gates supporting a console with their largest games that Japan has rejected, and as soon as they stepped into the mainstream territory, where anything can sell - the DS - the Japanese populous ignored their game because they didn't know who they were. Blue Dragon Plus experienced a similar lukewarm reception: it's related to the 360 game that only about 20 people in Japan actually own, and it's a RTS. That's like a double negative. I have no idea what they were thinking with that.

Level 5 won't become irrelevant because of Professor Layton. It's like their most successful original IP, it'll be what they're known for after they stop getting contracted for DQ games.

Square Enix isn't in irrelevance yet because they still have a lot of powerful franchises up their sleeves that they can deal out at any time (Mana, SaGa, Chrono). Their problem is that they hit a stumbling block because they made a lot of poor decisions at the beginning of this generation that they're just now getting around to correcting. I don't know who's godawful idea it was to put several high profile games on the cellphone but at least they're now being ported to the PSP. And multiplat FF13 is at least one step in the right direction, even if both versions are on the wrong consoles. 

Who cares? I don't.


KH III for PS3...

About the 6 FF XIII games:

But this is really, really old, around the same time SE announced FF XIII. Back then everyone still thought the PS3 would lead the genration and the Wii would do Gamecube numbers at best.

To speculate: When you look at the size of the circles I think SE planned another FF XIII game for the PS3, another mobile game and one DS/PSP game.

TGS is over and still no new announcements for the Wii.

Whatchu talking about Willis?

Have you forgotten the blockbuster that is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time?

@noname: That's a DS game that can be played on the Wii -.-

That's a big difference.