The latest word from Famitsu's grimy pages is that Final Fantasy XIII, part of Square-Enix's Fabula Nova Crystallis, has been put on hold so the development team can work on Final Fantasy XIII itself.
The Fabula Nova compilation is apparently having some teething problems, and with FFXIII being Squeenix's number-one priority, resources are going from Versus into the main game. The team will still be producing artwork for Versus in the meantime.
The mobile phone installment of the compilation, Final Fantasy Agito XIII, is in early development stages and is said to have a considerably large background history written entirely by Hajime Tabata.
As for the project as a whole, new announcements at E3 seem unlikely, with Square's DKΣ3713 party on the way. PS3 fans will just have to keep enjoying Guns of the Patriots while we wait for more info.
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12:53 PM on 06.18.2008
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actually, it's most definately the same engine, and thus most likely the same pipeline (with probably minor differences). It's not like they're contracting a different company to come in. They're just mergine two dev teams working on different projects in the same IP. I don't think "getting the other team" up to speed is going to be an issue.
Shucks.
From what I've read they are using the same engine, but the games were supposedly totally different in terms of gameplay and scope. Overall, I think it's a good idea, I'm just pointing out that there could be some potential problems with the merging process, rather than just "Two times the number of people working on it means two times the speed!"
Just doing a little bit of a con side since I've seen nothing but pros in comments on other sites. :D
I can live with that.
How about instead of putting them on the dev team to work on XIII why don't they put them to work on Kingdom Hearts 3, seeing as they are the KH dev team.
Putting off Versus means longer wait for KH3, folks. That's not cool.
At least they finally have the right idea first: Make the FFXIII a successful brand name first and soon, and I cannot emphasize the "soon" part enough square, you are almost the only developer still planning an JRPG for it, everybody else is tired of waiting for the PS3 to catch up and frankly not even another fanboy wetdream like MSG4 can keep the PS3 alive for long if you don't produce a FFXIII soon.
wtf SE, seriously, why try to release 2 FF games almost at the same time? STOP THE MILKING! FOCUS on making ONE friggin game at a time, Make it a classic and stop making SOOOOO MANY FF GAMES AT THE SAME TIME!!! THIS IS WHY YOUR SHIT IS FAILING!
jesus...
What the hell!
*goes back to MGS4 while sulking
I would just like to point out that SE released a statement today stating that Versus XIII was not on hold or suspended.
I'm angry because here in Australia, we sometimes have to wait YEARS before it's released here. FFXII took over a year to get to the PAL regions. I've heard that the Playstation 3 will be region free, so maybe I have a chance at importing it from the US. But jeez, finish it already. The Final Fantasy series is starting to suffer from overload - first came the films (spirits within and Advent Children, which were okay at best), then came the spin-off games (Crisis Core, etc, which were pretty good), then came the pure leaching (an FF shooter starring VINCENT? What the hell?), and now here comes the endless fighting games, games featuring minor characters, "expansions" and to my horror, SEQUELS (I refuse to even play X2 - it's NOT Final Fantasy with only THREE characters and a non-linear story line and alternative endings).
Square, stick to the numbered games. Please. Final Fantasy is a great series, but if it goes on like this, I can't imagine how much longer it can last. By diverting their resources, they are going to start to churn out "less-than-stellar" games in the pursuit of fan service and money. Don't do this Square-Enix. DON'T DO IT!