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Nomura: no FFXIII for 2007

Posted Jan 27, 2007 at 9:53AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3 Tags: Kingdom Hearts, playstation 3 updates, PS2, Square Enix, Tetsuya Nomura, White Engine

Not meaning to rain on everyone's parade, but perhaps hoping to play Final Fantasy XIII by next Christmas may have been a bit too much to ask for, and Tetsuya Nomura himself says so.

In a recent interview with Famitsu, Nomura and his Square Enix crew have said flat out that FF XIII won't be coming out by 2007. We're just guessing at this point, but it may be that they still have to finish some other pending projects first before rolling up their sleeves for this new FF installment which everyone has been drooling over.

Part of their to-do list include Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix for the PS2, It's A Wonderful World and FFXII: Revenant Wings for the DS, FFVII: Crisis Core for the PSP, and the director's cut version of the movie, "Final Fantasy Advent Children."

Sigh. It's going to be a long wait, but as we once said in the case of Shigeru Miyamoto and Super Mario Galaxy, if they want more time to work on the game, then we're happy to wait. Besides, there's at least the demo. Maybe.

In the meantime, we'll amuse ourselves with dreams of Square Enix harnessing the full power of the Lifestream Cell processor, and thoughts of a White Engine and Unreal Engine 3 hybrid in the hands of the masters.

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i honestly didnt believe it would come out this year anyways. look how long ff12 took. and they are working on new hardware on top of that. this is yet another common sense article that qj just had to post i guess.

all in all, i dont care how long i wait cause with square, its almost always worth it.

# HAHAHAH — Guest 2007-01-27 13:00

THis wait is very bad indeed. With all the negative comments about the ps3 i wouldn't be suprised that sony folds and this game goes to xbox 360 instead!

# Shatter — Guest 2007-01-27 13:07

Only some masters are working w/ Mistwalker, not all. Notice how Square-Enix kept most of the ones who worked on FFVII, their best selling game of all time.

# ; ; — Guest 2007-01-27 13:10

It's kind of common sense, like jou said, but...

it's also true that the masters aren't there anymore... we're just relying on the game name. and as we're relying on the name, people are relying on the creators...which isn't working either, so I'd just suggest to watch out for good games and not get your hopes up for OMFG FFXIII or OMFG HALOIII...oh wait that's the same creators ;;, so keep your hopes up for that one. as for Ps3... Heavenly sword is what I'm looking forward too^^

# Why Not Call For Tose? — CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS 2007-01-27 14:55

Anyone?

# shut your face jou — ContrAss 2007-01-27 15:00

i had enough of your smarmy, jello brain PS3 praising! QJ is not biased in the least, infact they're as well preserved and hard edge as say 1up or Kotaku. And I'm totally bullsh.i.t.ing right now!

And I can't wait for FFXIII on 360 either. It's gonna be so cool because i can get these achievements to make myself play through the damn game; who needs to play games for lesiure now a days, I'm SO HARDCORE! hahaha

# all this hooha about the 'masters' of ff leaving etc — comedy 2007-01-27 22:47

in my opinion you don't need one great man to make a great game, ff12 was in different hands to ffx and ff9 etc, but they're all spankingly good.

naturally ff13 won't be out for another 3 years or something obscene, but you know when it comes out all that anger and frustration we feel while waiting will just melt away the moment we hear that signature theme tune... it happened for me with ff12, i waited soooo long for that game!

i don't know if they'll be mega eager to port ff13 to x360, you may not have noticed but that system isn't doing very well in japan, and squeenix are japan based - and their core audience is japan which means nintendo and sony... i think the numbers at their end may not add up to bother with a port, but here's hoping (i see nothing wrong with others have the same game as me)

# Does it feel good to be stupid? — Guest 2007-01-28 00:07

Does it?

Just please... dont spread your dumb to everyone

# Some People Here are Idiots :) — Guest 2007-01-28 02:20

Masterz...Eh...As if 360 Fans Know the Sqaure Staff.

The Only Master that left is Hinorubu Sakuguchi,Every one Else is Onboard,And teh Company is Bigger than Ever.

Play FFXII and Feel the Excellence.....Or Valkyrie Profile,Or Dragon Quest.

Hino,s Blue Dragon is a Very Traditional RPG with Nothing New to Offer,Same Old Turn-Based...Heck the Game Was Even Rushed into Japanses Stores with Some Foolish Voices..

To the "Morons" who say that the Masters Have Left......

Did you Watch FFVII:Advent Children..???....Do you Know that the Animation and Graphical Excellence is On-Par With HollyWood...??..Do you Know that the Battle-Scenes Beat Anything you Have Seen In your Miserable Lives..??

Sqaure-Enix is In Its Strongest Days,And Is the Standard for Rpg Gaming....Make no Mistake About it

Oh....And FFXIII/FFXIII versus are PS3 Exclusives...Yes,You can cry in the Corner Now ;)

# SALES IN JAPAN MEAN ZILCH — Guest 2007-01-28 02:50

When anybody points out the sale of the 360 in Japan they miss one BIG point, Gears of War is now about number 7 in their chart so this can mean only one of Two things. -

1. MS have now sold enough 360s in Japan and they can now only get stronger otherwise how else could Gears be in their top 10 just like Blue dragon was 2 weeks ago?.

or

2. If they havent sold enough 360s there then surly it is a waste of their time anyway as it just goes to show that if they are breaking into their top 10 with few machines then software sales must be poor there anyway so why bother with Japan full stop?.

# Blue Dragon ! you are making it up — Guest 2007-01-28 03:03

Well your PERSONAL review of BLUE DRAGON is interesting because you know why ?. YOU cannot possibly know what you are talking about UNLESS you speak Japanese,you say it has FOOLISH VOICES so ok if you dont speak Japanese what makes you know that as a FACT?

Do you live in Japan ! if NO then how could you possibly Know how the game plays etc because its not officially out anywhere else?.

And here is the SCORE it got from Japans top games mag FAMITSU -

9, 9, 9 + 10 from the editors, which gives it a mighty 37/40 total score.

I think that tells you what the game is really like.

# Idiot.... — Guest 2007-01-28 03:08

Read IGN Preview of the Japanese Version.

An Annoying Annoucnement Voice Starts In the Most Foolish Situations..

# Japan — Guest 2007-01-28 03:14

I dont care for Final Fantasy either way BUT

You may not of noticed that Gears is in Japans top 10 so the 360 isnt doing well in Japan Eh ?.

How many games do you see in their top 10 for the PS3 which you think has sold so many in Japan I count the usual NONE,just like a few weeks ago when Blue Dragon was in the top 10 again I counted NONE on the PS3.

# >You are the idiot and your info as usual taken from where you want it to be worse possible — Guest 2007-01-28 03:22

Ahh now we see a different thing altogether,now you HAVE NOT in actual fact played this game have you but instead you choose to do the usual and ignore respected Magazines like FAMITSU Japans top mag who gave it a huge score and a great review but instead have gone for some irrelevant thing you have found on the net who also proberly dont understand a word of Japanese either.

# why do you do it though ? — Guest 2007-01-28 03:30

Oh hang on I have now read your reply and noticed that you NOW say you actually based your Blue Dragon FACTS on a PREVIEW LOL. why didnt you say BASED on a PREVIEW in your post?.

# ... — Guest 2007-01-28 05:51

Well I'm glad I' not japanese, do you plan on playing the japanese version of the next FF?

# yuck — Guest 2007-01-28 06:18

dear Anti_Propaganda ,

after reading your interesting replies, I'm left with one single question.

why do you do this. What is your point ? make it clear to everyone who reads this that you are just a fanboy ?

Please do tell me, and stop that childisch ' YOU NEVER PLAYED THE GAME SO YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE AN OPINION ON IT' crap, thats so 2006.

yours truely,

mr.someone

# Final fantasy — Vietone 2007-01-28 06:32

OK so the people who made Final fantasy also made Blue Dragon.

But FFXII is just several times better then Blue Dragon and theres no comparison or argument to which ons better.

So what does this mean? It means that changing the people who work on the game is sometimes a good thing. Inviting new ideas and fresh perspectives.

To me, FFXII is the best FF RPG of all time. The storyline was great, the gameplay was just near perfect. You don't get any better then FFXII in satisfaction when you play it, thats me and just about everyone I know whos played the game, and the millions of people over the internet.

So far nothing on the Xbox360 in terms of RPGs is better then FFXII, and its a PS2 game. Blue Dragon didn't receive as much development time as FF games usually get, thats why the game wasn't that great.

# Oops... — Guest 2007-01-28 06:39

dear Anti_Propaganda ,

I just re-read your posts and I now understand what you're saying.

Sorry, for acting like a pretentious fool.

yours truely,

mr.nobody

# My love of men — Guest 2007-01-28 09:12

Sorry guys... it must have been all the hot men around me. I love man love. You know when hot guys get around me I just go crazy and start freakin out. This one guy was grinding up on me, I started goin nuts and had to run into the bathroom at one point. Anyways.... remember, if you havn't touched men today, you need to!

# SALES IN JAPAN — Guest 2007-01-28 11:49

Video game sales are nothing when it comes to console sales. Game sales will always be less than total consoles sales due to opinions and different personalities. 360 is doing bad in japan, that doesn't mean that GoW will do bad. A perfect example is Nintendo with the Game Cube.

Game Cube had Super Smash Bros, one of the greatest fighting games ever. The GC still did the worst of the 3 systems, but that doesn't mean that Super Smash Bros sucked.

# how lame — Guest 2007-01-28 15:28

look at the 360fanboys, just because they got 1 mistwalker, they r so happy... weee... run along now and play that game for the next 3 years until xbox720 comes out

# East-RPGs on the Xbox 360 — Guest 2007-01-28 22:35

There are lots of Mistwalker games coming (blue dragon, lost odyssey, cry on)... No doubt, the Xbox ist till 2009 (when FF maybe comes to the US/Europe) the better console for East-RPGs

# dumbasses — Guest 2007-01-29 01:20

Quit using other peoples' names. It's just retarded as nobody would believe that's him.

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