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Oh I'm sorry Soriku, I thought you said that were working on FFXIV

My bad



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Soriku that really leaves no-one for KH3 till 2011



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Versus 13 done in 2010?

you really think so.....really?



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Soriku said:
Like I said in the other thread, I doubt they'd wait until late 2011 or whatever to finally decide. hero_time made a good point that the FF XII team is likely making FFXV now. I wonder if SE are disappointed, Nintrndo will try aggressively to get FFXV on the Wii like MH3/DQ X? I want them to do that with KH3 instead though.

I doubt FFXV will be a wii exclusive, at best I see it as a three way multiplat and the amount of work needed to downgrade graphic to the wii will probably make SE skip it.

I reason that since FFXIII is coming to the PS360 (and likely versus will be a multiplat PS360 eventually) The backlash and negativety from the fanbase will be huge if they choose to stick the next flagship title on the Wii.

And on top of that SE will lose valueble market as many many users would have already purchase one of the later 2 console for XIII / versus.




Soriku said:
I don't think they care too much if the next game has a chance of selling more while being cheaper. Plus there's no way they'd go Wii/PS3/360 for theit flagship game.

I still doubt it'll be a Wii game though.

Cheaper to develop for: Yes

But as for selling more? This can be disputed... there is no big global franchise from third party that has a flagship title on the wii. Even DQ X is only massively popular in Japan where the install base obviously favour the Wii. I don't think SE will gamble their flagship for a first dip into the blue ocean.

It makes much for sense for KH3 to come out on the Wii and that's something I think Nintendo will push for...

Reasoning:

* With the exception of IX, FF from VII onward tend to be attention seeking graphic whores, the Wii despite being a great machine would mean going against this trend and risk alienating existing fan.

* As previously mentioned, FF is SE's flagship title, on top of an existing fanbase which is 100% certain to buy it on the PS360 thanks to the release of XIII, I don't think SE will risk FF to test the water on the performance of big name franchise flagship title on the Wii.

* Thanks to the 'cartoony' nature of KH graphic (rather than the ultra realism look popular in FF) the graphic is less taxing and more easily achievable on the less performance oriented Wii.

* More family oriented game for a more family oriented system. Disney has globally recognisable icons that are considered 'safe' and more likely to appeal to the wider market demography which owns the Wii.

* Will still sell massively in Japan thanks to a good install base and DQX paving the way, but globally has a far better chance to sell superior number thanks to its universal appeal when compare to a PS360 iteration.




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hopefully they're just lowballing so that they can say ffxiii sold way beyond expectations. It sounds better in the media



Soriku said:
Did the FFXI team make FF XII? I'm assuming the FFXI team is working on XIV and the FF XII team is different.

They didn't, and I highly doubt the Ivalice team will be given another main Final Fantasy after the large drop in sales FFXII experienced.



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Soriku said:
outlawauron said:
Soriku said:
Did the FFXI team make FF XII? I'm assuming the FFXI team is working on XIV and the FF XII team is different.

They didn't, and I highly doubt the Ivalice team will be given another main Final Fantasy after the large drop in sales FFXII experienced.

Large drop? It still sold 5 mil+. I doubt the team is the problem for lower sales. The drop's almost similar to VII and VIII, but the FF VIII guys are still making new FFs...

Yeah, it still sold 5 million, but it sold just as well FFX-2. A game that didn't have nearly as much development time as FFXII and a much smaller budget.

And the FFVIII is near identical to the people making FFX.



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Soriku said:
X-2 is a sequel to one of the best selling FFs. I'm not surprised to see it sell as much as it did.

Do you know if the FF series isn't just shrinking? Or is it maybe the style of it that turned people off compared to the rest? Or both?

It seems whenever the game is set in a more older time period (FF6, 9, 12) it sells less than more sci-fi, modern time period titles (7, 8, 10, etc.)



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I don't care what "team" does it.

I just want them to bring back Matsuno.

In fact, you know what? Piss on having the Ivalice team make another FF, give me my Ogre Battle.