Final Fantasy XIII confirmed for X360, Wii, DS, PSP, PS2, N-Gage and cell phones!

gencid

Um start releasing your international games -- internationally? You think? Maybe? They would sell, I would buy, you're company would get the money, Duh.

jamBot

@zanzibarlegend: Heh, actually Versus can't be the second coming of christ in the RPG world as it's, well, an action-adventure game. But worry not, it's purported to be a mixture of Dirge of Cerberus and Kingdom Hearts. I mean, if that doesn't inspire you, I don't know what does!

(Yes, there was some heavy sarcasm here, not that Kingdom Hearts is a bad game, but that combo can't end well...)

Nirolak

@zanzibarlegend: They've released a new FFXIII trailer at every major game show since they announced the game. The only thing is, they've been showing them behind closed doors in their camera-free Megatheater.

Still, two different FFXIII trailers and two FFvsXIII trailers have been released to the public.

Suzaku

Fuck mobile games, give us pure, numerical sequels and shove the rest up your arse.

wild_world_girl

@Grimmjow Jeagerjaques: i second this post.

(ps3 owner here)

SE needs to fucking speak on FF13,at least by E3. fuck cell phone games.i didnt pay 600 bucks for a ps3 to hear announcements of games that will not benefit the console at large. PS3 owners have been feening for some FF13. That and the Versus game better be the second coming of christ in the RPG world, or expect mayhem and bedlam.

even the infamous Killzone 2 has a release timeframe, and pics and videos to shoot, SE needs to pull up their pants and start acting like the men they were in their heyday.
i too say 2 Middle Fingers up yours, SE. {^_-}

zanzibarlegend

SE has been F***ing themselves lately. seriously why the hell Release Parasite Eve on bloody Cell Phones(even worse...) only in Japan. *oh we're losing the western market wah, wah, wah* well Yoichi Wada, Stop thinking out of your ass, and don't screw us fans. and you Remake FFIII, IV, DQ IV, DQ V, but not FFVII? that game made you popular here in the West. if not then FU-Q

Grimmjow Jeagerjaques

FWIW, they were still playing the Agito preview at their store last Saturday. (I finally got to see the FFVII regular and Vs. Tokyo Game Show previews - very exciting! My dad recognized one of the locations in the Vs. preview as being from some square in Italy, I forget where now. At least that matched the Italian titles on screen.)

jenvik

whew thought they were talking about the console version.....don't do that!

islandknight

@Estrelo: I'll admit it. I laughed hard at that.

SolCross

Honestly, I'm hoping it's Agito and not the KH-mobile game. Yeah yeah, I know that it's cool and somewhat warranted to hate on KH after KH2, but that game is about Mickey Mouse using his magical ret-con machine to fix all the fucked up plottwists, how can you not love something that outrageous? Plus I am THE worlds biggest Mickey Mouse as seen in KH-fanboy. Leave it to a short little mouse to save an otherwise completely boring jrpg douchebag angst-kid from being total waste of design time. Seriously, I wanted to punch Riku in the face all the time until Mickey swept in. Mickey Mouse should be a required counselor for ALL emo Squenix whiners, he could help them move beyond themselves and evolve into halfway decent characters...

... And I just realized I'm rambling. In any case, despite the fact that KH is arguably more overdone than FF13 right now, I want the canned game to be Agito. A world without a game where Mickey Mouse slowly goes insane from trying to decipher an inane plot, which is what KH:Coded will be about in my dreams, is a world that will be a lot more bleak than a world where a game that features a bunch of, admittedly stylish high school kids flounce around and do... whatever it is they're doing get's released. Seriously, does anyone know what Agito is all about? I sure don't.

Lalamp_Lalamb.

@Estrelo: The left one. He's using the businessman armor.

Ricemaniac

Which one is Yoichi Wada in the photo?

Estrelo

@Crosswayboy:

They have to figure out a fun way to swap out carts.

Mongoosekun

But phones can't connect to the Xbox 360! ;)

Americo

@KeithCourage:

That'd be awesome! I say awesome because Wada's comment on 'a console version' which could be read that 'We cancelled the phone PE so we could make a new PE proper'---hahaha! Yeah, I know they have said something similar before (about making a new console PE) but man I want more info!

Zookey

@Velops:

FFXII you mean? The game has a 91% overall review score on Gamerankings. If by hit and miss you mean that for every 20 positive reviews there was one less than favorable one, then yeah, they were hit and miss.

skullivan

If it's Agito, meh.
If it's Parasite Eve, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

TheCleaningGuy

I just want that FFXIII demo sometime this year (or better yet the game).

TC

it would not matter to me...cuz im not paying $300+ to play the game. Costing me some major phone upgrade money...im stuck with the crappy razor...not happy at all with it. Oh well will upgrade to another phone come december..new every two...huzzah

Jnkzm4

nooooo! this game looked so bad ass

TheNocturnalSun

This is a definite sign that the current method for making games at Square Enix is broken.

Who can forget what happened with FFXI? That project was plagued with issues causing a massive delay. The end result was a title that played like an MMO and looked like it was inspired by Star Wars: Episode 1. This led to hit or miss reviews with very few lukewarm reactions.

Velops

It does not bother me if it is done. I've never played one of those mobile phone games, and probably never will.

Bururian

Great. Now my phone is useless. *chucks phone in trash can*

RPGJunky

Well, can't say i was going to buy a mobile phone game anyway...

Mpalm.

Only thing about Agito is that it actually had no connection to the console FFXIII games. All three had completely seperate settings, characters, styles, storylines, everything.

I'd say a more logical guess would perhaps be Kingdom Hearts coded.

Suzaku

If SE were smart they would can Final Fantasy Agito XIII for the cell phones and make it for the PSP instead. Throw in some remote play and the game would be even better. Seeing as the PSP's are selling really well over in Japan right now you could make a bucket load off this game for the PSP.

BlackIceJoe

If SE is smart they would can Final Fantasy Agito XIII for the Phone but make it for the PSP instead. They could throw in some remote play too. Seeing as the PSP is selling really well now you could make a bucket load of cash off that game on the PSP.

BlackIceJoe

Almost forgot they were making that game haha

Mobile games are MUCH bigger in japan than in the US, then again Japanese phones are years ahead of ours it seems =/

Hitokiri151

yeah as long as FF13 and VS is released im good

lilaliendog

@KrsJin: I don't see why they'd bother, FFXI is still raking it in.

KirbySS

well,they have enough on their plate right now...all the re-releases happening

maybe this will help put a little more into bringing out FF13 faster,my poor PS3 is waiting for it

metallicorphan

It's obviously not a cellphone game. Even Square doesn't make cell games that connect to consoles.

Revenge_of_Nekojin

Any mainstream RPG developed by Square Enix will be fine for me...

Ricksterlau

although id love as much final fantasy as possible, if i had to choose one to do without it would be agito

Fluffy22

Surely they wouldn't shitcan development on Agito completely? If the whole selling point was 'home console' connectivity then they could achieve that with the PSP, surely?

atomicstrawberry

Real question is, where's the info on their next MMO?

KrsJin

Meh, it would probably be some Vodaphone (or similar) exclusive or something, which isnt even available in my country. So on a personal level, i really dont care.

Rexter

And nothing of value was lost.

KainReborn

I don't care about mobile games anyway, I hope Agito was cancelled

Hiroken

I just feel bad for the average Joes who bought a PS3 at launch because they believed FFXIII was within their reach.

Not that there's nothing good to play on the PS3, I've just met quite a few people who were taken in by the CG trailer and assumed that if S-E were showing stuff off it must be coming pretty soon. Obviously us gaming nuts knew better, but Sony liked to talk up FFXIII a lot considering we don't even know when it's coming out.

Kazzahdrane

I'm really starting to think that something is very wrong in the land of Squaresoft. FF13 has been announced around 2 years before, yet we have heard no information on it since then.

Then again, I do think that there is some personal bias on my part. The game is being directed by Mr Toriyama, who, I believe, has lost his remaining strands of sanity since he decided that Yuna would look great in a miniskirt.

mcderek3000

@kelvinc: While I agree that the remakes do help bring some additional income into the company, you have to wonder if it's enough to sustain them. We can't forget that even the remakes have a development cost. It would all depend on sales, and with the huge amount of money going into the very long time to develop their bigger franchises, I wonder if they are really making enough to appease those invested.

VileMethoD

Well they've been re-releasing old material on portables like mad, which would probably placate the shareholders for a while. It would certainly buy some time for their bigger, longer projects, but we are near the saturation point of people's patience for such things. How DQIX ends up as slow as those "bigger, longer project" is beyond my comprehension, though.

kelvinc

@Saint Anima: It is gonna be a crazy day, huh? I can't help but wonder though if there will be as much excitement for DQ9 as there was for DQ8. DQ8 was such a huge step forward for the franchise; and in my personal opinion DQ9 going to a hand-held feels like a very big step back. I don't live in Japan however so I guess I don't have a right to be incredulous of it's potential sales.

VileMethoD

I can't say that I'm very surprised. Perhaps this is part of the discussion we had the other night about Square wanting to "go beyond traditional Square".

These sort of things happen when you rarely release a game. Square's first next-gen console game, Infinite Undiscovery, isn't even due out until this September. Talk about getting to the party late. The consoles have been out for how long now?

Now with the DQIX delay, I have to say that I would not be very happy if I was a Square stockholder.

No games means no money, for Square and for Shareholders. I expect that sometime in the near future things are going to be forced to change around Square due to investor pressure. Hopefully that change will benefit gamers as well.

VileMethoD

Wonder if there's any chance that its the Kingdom Hearts mobile game; KH3 is still supposed to be based on the home console right? And with a PSP and a DS game on the horizon, it'd seem it might be saturating the market to add another mobile iteration of the series; plus, the more action-oriented gameplay is harder to get right on a mobile phone...

verrius

I can't for the life of me understand what's taking so long to develop DQIX. It's a DS game for Pete sake!

In terms of the canceled cell phone game, it makes absolutely ZERO difference to us Western gamers since our phones can't even support those games in the first place.

S-E is far too focused on Japan, not enough Western love! :(

Crosswayboy

Don't really care and in all honesty I'd prefer if they kind of cut back on the multiple releases for a single roman numeral.

Kitty

Lol, just bring FFv13 ;p, no loss here ;p

Idree

Yeah, like people have said - mobile gaming isn't as big in the West as it is in Japan, I'd rather they just have everyone concentrate on 13 proper and versus. Agito is no loss, if that's what he was talking about.

dnzperson

It's a phone game, who cares, if your seriously gaming on a phone, allow me to introduce to you this wonderfull portable thing called a DS...

D Mitsuki

@KeithCourage:
Nah, I doubt PE Mobile connects to anything... FF13 Agito seems the most likely choice, though.

BPMθ

I agree with the DQIX sales. That is going to be one crazy day in Japan.

Didn't think we'd see Agito over here in the states...so if it is canceled I wouldn't mind too much.

Saint Anima

I get the feeling it's Parasite Eve. I don't care if it's -just- a mobile game -only- in Japan. PE must live on! Tanomu!

KeithCourage