Square Enix: Final Fantasy Versus XIII not on hold

God 13! how much of this 99% CGI CRAP they gonna pump out?!?!

Oh I know why....

Because this is Nomura who stated FFXIII Versus is essentially going to be a very dark adventure in the gameplay style of Kingdom Hearts.

Did somebody say Kingdom Hearts?

Speaking of dark Kingdom Hearts, why the fuck have Square decided to screw with the style of Final Fantasy so much? I'm more interested in any game by Mystwalker than the Final Fantasy games because of Final Fantasy XII.

Tetsuya-san obviously didn't get the memo about the coversheet required for all FFXIII reports.

They could easily do it. The engine is already done, and the ps3 is aiming for a 10 year life cycle, its very doable. Expect ff 14 1 or 2 years after versus

"and the ps3 is aiming for a 10 year life cycle"

Oh lol.

The whole "10 year lifespan" bullshit is just propaganda, used to justify the system's initial price. I don't understand why people still continue to believe in this kind of mess, especially when the PS3 is so full of bottlenecks that it wouldn't be able to compete with the next generation of consoles(10 year plan meant 10 years of PS3 before the PS4 is rolled out).

The PS2 is still alive and kicking. I don't think it out of the question at all that the system could have a life span of 10 years. Everyone still buying PS2s now may well be buying PS3 years from now. But, OTOH, I don't think we'd see a big name game like FF show up during the last few years. By that time Square will have moved on to the next gen.

The way the market now works it seems is that the second you decide to make a game, you announce it. The moment you have a logo, you publish it. You then pretty much mention the game as much as possible through its development cycle right up to its release date - which will never be the date you originally thought you'd hit. Apparently this drives "buzz" for your game and more people will pick it up when it is finally available.

I don't know. I remember when you found out about new games by walking into the store. That doesn't happen any more. Maybe someone with some psychology and/or marketing degree can explain this to us.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some data to support the fact that this new model of harping on about a game that isn't ready for months has a positive release on sales.

Same here Brodie-san I would like somebody to explain this to, because it seems like it just goes to infuriate more gamers when they hear the title they were looking forward to get pushed back and see nothing else come out about it. I don't know enough about marketing to get this strategy either.

You announced games X,Y, and Z 1-2 years ago. Y, and Z never got a date but I still purchased my console on them because hell you had video and what seemed to be game play. Ever since then the only people that get to see Y,Z is media, and pretentious industry personal while you are actually selling Y, and Z to me and showing me nada. Then I get to the point were I am like F', Y, aNd Z also you can go to hell and you blame slow or lagging sales on some other new trend. This makes no sense to me.

It may not have a release date, but it does have milestones. Set amount of work needed to be done by a set date, etc.

@Brodie-san

We will make video games analogous to the check engine light in your car.

We will make checking your engine analogous to reading about the game.

If the check engine light appears once, you will check the engine to see what the problem is. Once that is done, you will most likely never check your engine again because the light hasn't appeared again and there is no reason for you to check the engine.

If the check engine light is on permanently, you assume there is something wrong with the light and eventually stop caring about whatever the light wants you to check out.

If the light appears at regular intervals, you will probably check your engine once in a while but not on a routine basis.

The light appears at random intervals. This situation is probably closest to what most game developers do. If the light appears at random intervals, you will be more likely to check your engine every time the light appears because you cannot attribute the activation of the light to anything specific.

To summarize: The release of information at random times almost guarantees that a game developer/publisher will generate interest in a game. News is not interesting if the similar stories are broadcast over and over and over again. Random information ensures that every time news is released, people will know, and care about said news.

If a company only released one statement about a game, and then said nothing, only people who were paying attention to the initial release will know of the game's existence. Its hard to keep enthusiasm for a game going over the span of two or three years if nothing new is said about it. Random news releases generates a large "knowledge base" about a game.

If a company released every minute detail about a game in development, people would probably start to ignore the information. Much like someone tune out a yapping dog if it made noise for hours and hours without end.

Hope this clears things up: Car, engine, light, random, yappity dog, videogame.

That was very good, Titanium Orchid [+]

Brodie-san, your complaints are probably one of the reasons Nintendo has adopted their new strategy of "announce when we have a playable build that exists," which creates windows of discouraging uncertainty (like right now when we have no idea what they're going to talk about next, and leads some to assume that there's nothing on the horizon)

What Titanium Orchid describes can sometimes frustrate users, but ultimately helps keep enthusiasm up for long-term projects

Many people around here do believe it or not. As is generally yhe case when someone says who cares on a game post.