jimmypython
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They will tease a stand alone presentation/event for Versus13 at their 25th event. I'm calling it.
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Yoichi Wada: Final Fantasy Versus XIII not cancelled
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Appollowexx
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Man, Square Enix are a train wreck of a studio these days. Embarrasing at times. They need to learn to finish a game before commiting to a new project. Learn from Naughty Dog - 2 studios, 2 mainline games concentrate all rescources on getting one finished before the other. I'll bet they've taken staff off Versus to knock out another XIII title to boot.
Rebel Leader
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Can we ban Kotaku yet?
Hell no, we should be thanking them. =D
"We are working hard at the game right now, preece be patient"
Doesn't seem like it. They're supplementing the XIII staff with assistance from Tri-Ace, which means the Versus team is probably mostly untouched.
They're also not just developing 3 FF games and 1 DQ game, there's other games in the pipeline. Committing all your resources to finish one game is not a good plan.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
The thing is, that there is no real marketing push about the title in terms of coverage or anything, which is a good sign that its still being worked on. For something this high profile when its close to being ready for the public you actually start to see some media appear but will have the release date still being set as a general timeframe if an exact one is not given yet.
With versus we have not really seen this yet, which is what also makes me think that there is not going to be a release date announcement. I could very well be wrong, but with this little info about the game itself. Dont think they will be letting the cat out of the bag just yet, though if anything might give a general time frame perhaps. Such as Spring 2013 for example.
Thats just how I see it though.
Appollowexx
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That's good to know if true.
I have to disagree about your second statement though. I think 2 games at once with 2 teams is a tried and tested development process that has worked very well for the majority of high profile Western developers. Concentrate on one title while doing the ground work on the second, release the first and then go into full production the the second, while beginning pre production on your next title. That allows a company to avoid development hell on one game because they announce it to early while juggling to many other projects.
At this point I think they very well might do FFXIII-3 as a final instalment to the FFXIII series and Versus is going to get renamed.
It doesn't benefit from having FFXIII in its title and if its as high profile as it appears to be then there is no reason not to rename it to a new mainline FF (FFXV).
Cornbread78
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That's a pretty accountable and stand-up thing to post.... I'll applaud that.
As far as the game, who knows, we're dealing with SE here. I did hear him says HD towns, which is pretty amaing, but has this transitioned into a PS4 title, or has the developement timeframe slowed down because it is now a multiplatform title
(PS3/360/Wii-U) and they need to loop all the systems together, similiar to the rumors that we heard about FFXIII, when they essential "dumbed it down" to make it a viable multiplatform title, that wouldn't be on 6 XBOx disks? Think of the megaton in waiting, this could be the first mainline FF game on a Nintendo system in quite some time, and could include reboots of FFXIII and FFXIII-2.
Damn, trying to get Wada to mention the word versus is like getting Newell to say the number 3. This is great news. I don't care what the game ends up being called as long as I get to play the footage I've been following for 6 years.
Now if only the western Type-0 could get a little attention...
Now if only the western Type-0 could get a little attention...
Meccanical
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Well no shit its not cancelled.
Now you know what would be nice?
If they showed that presentation that they allegedly had to the people.
Letting people see your game is a good thing for everybody.
Now you know what would be nice?
If they showed that presentation that they allegedly had to the people.
Letting people see your game is a good thing for everybody.
The difference between Naughty Dog and Square Enix is that Naughty Dog is a development studio, whereas SE is a large publisher. They're not just a developer, so they need to have their eggs in more than one or two baskets. The model SE should be following should resemble Ubisoft more than ND.
Moreover, originally Squaresoft was able to release multiple rpgs of different IP within short spans of time. While this is probably more difficult to do in the HD era, I think it's better to diversify your releases and not focus so heavily on so few IP. It's a gamble for their business, but it's definitely better for the consumer, since we get to play more and different games.
Stumpokapow
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I don't think this post offers anything in the way of understanding how you got this wrong. Your rumour had a serious credibility problem by its very design--it purported to be able to accurately evaluate team morale at the development team (so it would have to be a development source from Japan), media strategy for reporting the news (implying the source was someone in PR or business development), and then you either speculated or reported about stock pricing (you didn't actually clarify if this was your source's speculation, your source's reporting, or your speculation).
You know who your source is. We don't know who your source was. Without even considering the actual rumour itself--that you reported the cancellation of a major game--did your source really seem like, based on their position in the company, they'd have access to the information you reported?
I highly doubt it. Saying "the situation is murky" isn't a mea culpa, it's an excuse. :/
Oh I agree, definitely seems like they're still working on it and it seems unlikely we'll hear much at TGS. I was just wondering if people knew in comparison to where SE was on XIII and XIII-2 at a similar time frame whether a Dec. release(for Japan obviously) for Versus was possible.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Not exactly related or not one interesting bit of info was that the SQEX stocks did have a low dip on the 18th of this month. Rumor on the 20th.
Only came across that info to see if the rumor had effected their stocks at all. From the 18th it went back up and on the 20th, which is when Kotaku posted their "rumor" is when things started slipping downhill again.
http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/9684:JP
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*No real point behind this post asides just to share that.
Only came across that info to see if the rumor had effected their stocks at all. From the 18th it went back up and on the 20th, which is when Kotaku posted their "rumor" is when things started slipping downhill again.
http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/9684:JP
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*No real point behind this post asides just to share that.
sublimit
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Well said.
OldJadedGamer
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I think that is fair that if a anonymous person is a source of the rumor and the rumor turns out wrong then that person should be outed.
Are these types of comments really needed? It wasn't even a proclamation that it was cancelled but a rumor article that was written speculating on whether it was cancelle.d
.la1n
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Done and done.
But they had super legit mysterious anonymous inside sources!
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Thats what I call "shifting the blame".
Boss Man
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I don't think it's a problem that a rumor was posted, labeled as a rumor, and turned out to be false.
The problem is that as soon as we saw the source, half of the thread said "Well, it's Kotaku so w/e." and some also noted the problems that the story presented up front. A rumor is a rumor, but if your site is posting rumors that everyone always expects to be false because of your track record, then that is a problem and people will continue to attack the site's credibility.
The problem is that as soon as we saw the source, half of the thread said "Well, it's Kotaku so w/e." and some also noted the problems that the story presented up front. A rumor is a rumor, but if your site is posting rumors that everyone always expects to be false because of your track record, then that is a problem and people will continue to attack the site's credibility.
Well they did banned Go-Nintendo
TheJollyCorner
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On one hand: I'm glad (and not at all surprised) that Versus isn't 'cancelled'.
On the other hand: If it was cancelled and the project was completely scrapped, it might have been the end for Wada.
Meh...
On the other hand: If it was cancelled and the project was completely scrapped, it might have been the end for Wada.
Meh...
You shouldn't have thought it was canceled.
But as I was saying before, that rumor sounded like a distortion of something else that's been rumbling. I think that next time Versus is shown to the public, it's gonna be different.
Go_Ly_Dow
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well there's already at least two confirmed city's (one tokyo inspired and the other a italian/venice inspired city) and they've mentioned several different towns throughout the worldmap. so there's a good chance he might not have been talking about the tokyo one. (which we've already seen before in its early stages)
It will most likely get a rename or something to that degree in nature. Nothing too drastic I assume.
The Last One
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What are the chances of this and FF XV appear at the 25th event?
sublimit
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That would be hard to do if that person...doesn't exist.
Didn't think it was cancelled. I love how a nonchalant tweet cleared all this up.
I recently re-watched the last trailer they put out on Versus, and man, dem graphics look dated. I'm sure all this delay is to gussy it up a bit, make it look shinier than before.
Anyway, glad it's alive, and glad I'll be able to play it.
I recently re-watched the last trailer they put out on Versus, and man, dem graphics look dated. I'm sure all this delay is to gussy it up a bit, make it look shinier than before.
Anyway, glad it's alive, and glad I'll be able to play it.
Very, very, very little. Infinitesimal. I expect Versus to be at TGS, and not the anniversary event -- probably because any Versus news would eclipse a third XIII game announcement or FFXIV 2.0 information. As far as Final Fantasy XV goes, I consider it to be floating in the ether.
Canis lupus
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50% for versus, 1% for FF15.
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Sigh... oh how I want to go back to Japan. ='(
Super upset I wont be able to go to TGS this year. =/
I'm glad you think Versus will be the main focus at TGS. It only makes sense... XIII-3 will come but after Versus. At least, that's my line of thinking, too.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
(Note: this is a real life image, not an in-game image.)
A pic from Shinjuku near the Hilton Hotel. Well building next to it anyways.
SMT
this show is not Breaking Bad why is it not Breaking Bad? it should be Breaking Bad dammit Breaking Bad
Hiltons own a hotel in Japan - Woah
MikeXXIeaf
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Even though I despise how the gaming community feeds off baseless rumors, this was SE's own doing.
Then again maybe they're just not ready to do press on the game, which is fair.
Then again maybe they're just not ready to do press on the game, which is fair.
Schobeleth
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This is fine and dandy but WHERE IS IT ?! We're all dying over here man, they have to realize this by now. Wait... I guess they aren't, because they keep rehashing regular XIII. Either way, this is relieving. I just hope they show SOMETHING at TGS.
?! We're all dying over here man, they have to realize this by now. Wait... I guess they aren't, because they keep rehashing regular XIII. Either way, this is relieving. I just hope they show SOMETHING at TGS.- Status