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There Will Never Be Another Final Fantasy Game Like FFXIII

February 08, 2010 in News comments 8

Final Fantasy XIII might have taken five years to develop, but don't expect future titles to have such lengthy development times. Square Enix's Yoshinori Kitase and Motomu Toriyama assured fans that "in the future our teams will be smaller and more effectively run."

Speaking with Sony on the official European PlayStation blog, the game's producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama have said:

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If you consider that during Final Fantasy XIII's development, at peak time the team consisted of over 300 people. It was a huge team, plus it took a several long years to get the game finished. So, if Mr Wada meant that we would never make another Final Fantasy title with the similar number of people, taking as long as FFXIII did, we would agree.

Obviously in the future we want to be much more efficient. Having worked on XIII, we feel that we have got much better at making good games for high definition consoles. In the future our teams will be smaller and more effectively run.
Miss Razz via kotaku.com »
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    Shadow of Death Feb 9, 10
    Well, it was the first FF game for the PS3, and it was originally supposed to be a PS2 game (which apparently cost it over a year of Dev time, making the move to the PS3)....

    Course, the first FF for the PS4 will probably take a while to finish, but 5 years? I doubt it, so I can believe they'll never spend quite this much time developing a FF game in the future.
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      Daweii Feb 9, 10
      I am sure the development time on the next Playstation is down to Sony. If they choose to use a more advanaced version of what is already in the PS3, then that will help Square Enix. If they don't Square will have to rewrite their graphics engine from scratch again.
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    ThreeTwoFiveSix Feb 9, 10
    Does that mean no FFXIII-2? D:
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    Bale Fire Feb 9, 10
    I've heard the reason for such long development times for Japanese franchises is at least partly due to their organisation. Over there the process is a lot more rigid, with less flexibility for workers and managers alike, which apparently slows down development a lot. Of course this is just stuff I read in an article somewhere. But if they're talking about changing up the organisation...
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      Miss Razz Feb 9, 10
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      Over there the process is a lot more rigid, with less flexibility for workers and managers alike
      Pretty much like every Japanese company then.
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    Twin_Master Feb 9, 10
    Well, this just means I can finally get through 1 FF game!
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    BANDITO ATTACK Feb 10, 10
    well, they spent 5 years on it, but at least it was worth it. everyone thinks that it is super awesome, and it's getting perfect reviews across the board. good thing they didn't waste their time and money on a total failure.
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    phowell23 Feb 10, 10
    Yea i believe em...... theyll cut it down from 5 years to 4.

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