Square Enix developer Tetsuya Nomura has told Final Fantasy fans not to hold their breaths waiting for Final Fantasy XIII Versus.
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Publisher Square Enix has reported a huge drop in sales and earnings for the nine months leading to December 31st. Profits fell sharply by 76.6 percent. The good news is that Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days and Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 each managed over a million sales during those three quarters.
Square Enix and the PlayOnline service have switched off their multiplayer server farms in order to save what power they can in Japan following the quakes. Kojima Productions have also announced Metal Gear Online will be off in Japan as well. Square aren't charging for subscriptions to FFXI and FFXIV in April.
The earthquake and tsunami which had forced Square Enix to shut down the Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV servers to conserve power will be going back online this Friday at 8pm Tokyo time.
Final Fantasy XIV's buggy launch forced Square-Enix to drop subscription fees til the game was properly fixed. The game's servers were offline during the Japanese 8.9 earthquake, and only recently resumed play, still free-to-play. Square-Enix is reporting that the resumption of subscription fees aren't beginning anytime soon.
Proving there is an unending thirst for old Final Fantasy titles, Square-Enixhas announced that a new remake of Final Fantasy V will be hitting PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable.
As Square-Enix continues to work on fixing the mess that is Final Fantasy XIV, some play balancing ideas are starting to leak through to the public.
On the PlayStation Network right now for PS3 and PSP is Final Fantasy V, joining the PSone Classics ranks, which itself was an update of the SNES original. We can "discover the early days" of the Final Fantasy franchise. The "all-new CG cinematic sequences" are the PSone remakes from FFV from SNES.
14 years post launch isn't too long for fans to still be digging up gems. Final Fantasy VII which came out in 1997 has just had an unused scene discovered. The melody 'Comical' was found but wasn't known what purpose it had, but now we all know. The scene has a manager of Shinra interrupt fun times being had.
Square-Enix continues to try to salvage the disaster that has been Final Fantasy XIV, as producer Naoki Yoshida has laid out an extensive list of gameplay changes the development team has planned.
Publisher Square Enix has yet another MMO up their sleeve and all we know so far is that it will be announced before April 2012, the end of fiscal 2012. They hope to keep 2 to 3 large MMO titles running simultaneously, which should give a stable flow of revenue. One more MMO beside Final Fantasy XIV?
A Japanese magazine reports that Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII-2 is about '70 percent complete' and also noted a name change for one of the systems. The 'Optima Change' system in the Japanese version will now adopt its English version name of 'Paradigm Shift', which lets you alter character roles/jobs instantly.
Art director Isamu Kamikokuryo confirms that two other new characters will join the Final Fantasy XIII-2 line-up, which is lead by the fresh faced Noel. They'll be "main characters" but right now secrecy surrounds them. Some of the original cast from Final Fantasy XIII will be returning for the sequel.
The Final Fantasy VII DLC will finally be available for LittleBigPlanet 2, after years of delay. The skins were supposed to be released alongside the original LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid 4 skins back in 2008.
A follow-up by Japanese magazine Famitsu on Final Fantasy Versus XIII is expected to arrive next week according to leaks of this week's Famitsu issue. A new title announcement is teased as well. The mag delivers an update on Square's Final Fantasy Type-0, which is apparently 80 percent complete.
Final Fantasy Type-0, formerly Final Fantasy Agito XIII, may not see a North American release, let alone a retail release, reports Siliconera, as Square-Enix is still making up its mind what to do with the property in the Western region.
Final Fantasy XIV Online producer Naoki Yoshida posted in the official forums that Square-Enix is targetting July 21 as the release date for the upcoming 1.18 update.
As promised early last week by Japanese magazine Famitsu, an update from Square Enix via Tetsuya Nomura has arrived for Final Fantasy Versus XIII. There's a new lighting system and cut-scenes are 'controllable' he reveals. They've "unified" cut-scene and in-game character models, except the hair.
Producer Naoki Yoshida of MMO Final Fantasy XIV has reassured fans that the PlayStation 3 version is "of course" still on the way, despite the quiet. Development of FFXIV "is proceeding" and fans needn't worry because it will release. Square Enix will ship it "at all costs," states Yoshida-san. All costs?
Final Fantasy Type-0 director Hajime Tabata has announced in the game's blog that the game is closed to completion, and that all that remains in the game's development is tuning and debugging.