UFFSite Writes: Japanese Final Fantasy fansite FF Reunion appears to be suggesting that there'll be seven games total at tomorrow's 1st Production Department Premiere Event - three of them new, and one of those new titles a new game in the Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy XIII series of games.
In the posting on their site, FF Reunion announces that they'll be covering the event via updates on Twitter. The event takes place from 6pm Japanese time - around 9 hours from now. After that, they list the titles to appear at the show under two separate headings.
The first heading, "Fabula Nova Crystallis Related", lists Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII, already confirmed for the event by multiple sources and a third, mystery game marked with a question mark. Based on the events of the past week, this could well be the Final Fantasy XIII-2 which Square Enix just registered their first web address for last week.
Meanwhile the second heading for...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
Saad from eXputer: "After suffering from massive financial hits, Square Enix & Bandai Namco appear to be turning over a new leaf but I'm still unconvinced."
I was talking about games with some Japanese guys here in Japan, and it seems like around here Bandai Namco has a fame of making low-quality games, with the occasional gem.
About Square Enix, I believe they lack the capacity to improve. They should learn with Capcom (although even Capcom still makes some bad mistakes), but I don't think they ever will. They keep chasing whatever is new at the time (blockchain, AI...) to say "we innovate", without considering the public perception and if these things actually improve the games or not. Them releasing too many small games with no advertising also shows a lack of trust in its own products. Even with their biggest games, like turning FF into an action game with XVI and the very divisive plot changes regarding whispers and timelines in VII Remake, shows them trying to attract a new generation of gamers without understanding what made the series so big in the first place.
I don’t know why NOW they decide on this, but I guess later is better than never.
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
What a word vomit, rambling, turd of an article that simply states the obvious. Classic exputer.
FF13-2 for PS3/360, Versus goes Multiplatform, 1 more PSP game and 1 more 3DS game. Betting it now...
(SE likes hats made of money and Microsoft are fine suppliers of these hats - did you know?)
No FFXIII-2 please
versus isnt going multiplat and 13-2 is a ps3 exclusive
theres really no reason to release any ff game on the 360 since sales of FF games are higher on the ps3
@ below
better to make the game good on 1 platform than ruin it by spreading yourself too thin like with ff 13. Versus actually has potential because they are optimizing everything for the ps3 and pushing it to the limit. Any port to the 360 just wouldnt be as good.
A FF Collection.
Versus XIII it what I am looking for to seeing
FF XIII-2 will be interesting as well.
Final Fantasy 13-2......no....come on, try and stay possitive, it probably won't happen, why would they do a sequel to a game which has a spilt fan base over a new FF title or even a remake.
It just dosen't make sense.....It's all about money these days :/
I think the fabula nova crystallis was the worst idea ever, they should of just released FF13 and FF13 Versus as seperate games the length of time they've been apart.