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Kitase: Final Fantasy Titles Won't Take As Long To Develop In Future

September 05, 2009 in News comments 17

Tired of waiting 3-4 or more years for each Final Fantasy game to be released? Well, wait no more. Square Enix's Yoshi Kitase and Motomu Toriyama recently told vg247.com that, now that they have the engine built for it the basics are covered, they are aiming to shorten development time for future Final Fantasy games.

Us at GamesCom: Yoichi Wada has said that he wants the development rate to go a bit faster. Is this possible and what is the development team doing to help speed things along for the future?

FFXIII’s Yoshi Kitase and Motomu Toriyama, speaking through a translator: For FFXIII there are a lot of firsts, and because it’s a new console that the teams are working on, it took a little time for the team to get used to everything. Now that they have the engine built for it the basics are covered, so the development time for future projects should be shortened.
Still, it may not be as simple as Wada thinks (laughing).
Miss Razz via vg247.com »
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  • 0
    Duality_18 Sep 6, 09
    Wont change a damn thing.
  • 0
    Kepp123 Sep 6, 09
    yeah theyll find another way to make it lag for 4 years.

    "weve packed a 400 hours into this FF story"
    • 3
      Rabla Sep 6, 09
      I fail to see the problem with a 400 Hour FF.
      • 0
        Kepp123 Sep 6, 09
        will you ever finish the game with all the other games coming out. Unless you wont play other games.
      • 0
        BANDITO ATTACK Sep 6, 09
        lol, you would.

        25characters
        • 0
          Kepp123 Sep 8, 09
          have you noticed that there is like a steady stream of games coming out at the time.
  • 2
    Shuyu Sep 6, 09
    If the fact that it's a new console has anything to do with it, then why did XII take so long?
    • 2
      Tenken Sep 6, 09
      They couldn't decide whether or not they should release such a horrible game.
      • 0
        pyramidreaper Sep 6, 09
        I'm not sure, they did manage to release three worst single player FF games, one after another before XII.
        • 0
          Shattered Sep 7, 09
          FFX wasn't bad? Or can I not count in roman numerals?
        • 1
          Tenken Sep 8, 09
          Going by his accounts, he means that VIII, IX, and X were the three worst FF games since he says the three worst single players experiences before XII.

          Now having not played IX, but having loved VIII and X, I can kindly say WTF to that. Unless he means X-2, in which case, good man.
        • 0
          Bale Fire Sep 8, 09
          He probably means the spinoffs, mainly X-2, Dirge of Cerberus and such, which were pretty bad.
        • 0
          pyramidreaper Sep 8, 09
          IX, X and X-2. three worst FF games. in that order btw.

          and Tenken, I can say whatever the hell I want after
          quote Tenken
          They couldn't decide whether or not they should release such a horrible game.
        • 0
          Tenken Sep 9, 09
          Like I said, I was taking into account you that you probably didn't mean spin-offs(such as X-2) and thus figured you were adding XIII to that list. *bleep* IX and X. While I liked X, I still had issues with it.

          XII sucked.
        • 0
          pyramidreaper Sep 9, 09
          quote
          XII sucked.
          thanks, your opinion matters.
  • 1
    Principality Sep 7, 09
    Maybe the next couple of games, but when the next generation consoles come out, they'll have to redevelop a new engine, and the process starts all over again.

    Dissapointment all around!
    • 0
      Bale Fire Sep 8, 09
      The sad thing is that they'll likely only get 2 or 3 games out this generation anyway. So they basically spent 4 years building an engine and then as you said, start all over again

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