Square recently held their yearly fiscal meeting, which yielded some very distressing news for RPG fans awaiting the newest Final Fantasy with baited breath: The game may not be released until 2009. The trouble seems to revolve around the White Engine, the in-house engine that is being developed for all PS3 titles from Square. Since development of the engine is moving slower than your grandmother, the projections to finish the title have been pushed way, way back.
Good grief, Charlie Brown. Is it just me that sees the irony of Square pumping out FF side projects right and left, yet losing their steam on the next major installment in the series? They've gone from being one of the most reliable providers of solid titles to as vaguely dependable as your flaky friend with the bulemia problem. While this is likely a very real issue, it just stings for those of us who feel Square has been jerking fans all over the place as of late (a-hem.)
If you happen to be able to read Japanese, you can read the Financial Report for yourself here.
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2:50 PM on 11.19.2007
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However, best shoooop evar does exist in this here post
Trust me, us Squeenix fans are used to playing the waiting game.
I hope so ;)
"Its hard" is no longer a valid excuse, developers. Uncharted and Ratchet and Clank were available not just on-time, but early and they look, run, and play great. Square Enix is a behemoth in comparison to Naughty Dog or Insomniac.
@Variable and Kilgore: The way the industry is running now, talking about games years before they're going to be released, I think we would have heard about it by now. Keeping it secret would serve no purpose and, preemptively, if Sony was going to pay them to keep quiet, why wouldn't they just pay them not to make it for 360?
Oh well, there's always White Knight Story and MGS4 to make me feel I didn't buy my PS3 for nothing...