If you googled Heavenstrike Rivals, you'll find out it is a new tactical rpg on mobiles.
it wont happenWhen Toriyama himself says that he hasn't done much else but this trilogy for the past several years, which isn't hard to believe considering the size of the games vs. extremely tight development schedules (even with re-use of assets), and how he was going to take a break after Lightning Returns was released in NA & PAL regions earlier this year and how he would only then figure out what to do next, it's really not so far fetched to assume that his game is, at most, around 6-7 months into planning and early development.
Lollero, they didn't kill FF with the FFXIII trilogy, stop being so overly dramatic. FFXIV 2.0 is a much-liked MMO that has been extremely successful at a time when subscription based MMOs are dying (outside of EVE and WoW) and FFXV seems to shaping up extremely well (if you're not too butthurt about it being an action RPG).
Unless you want an overly long waits between games, there's absolutely no sense in doing so. Throwing thousands of people to push out a single game in a shorter time span does not necessarily lead to good/the best results (just look at Ubisoft how dumb that is) and there's absolutely no point in continuing their FFXIV like development method where they put everyone and their mothers to develop one and only game at the expense of everything else. Tabata even said that he doesn't want a huge 1000+ people team working on FFXV and would rather keep the team relatively small (only 200 to 300 staff) to produce the best results. XIV ARR & Lightning trilogy's completion likely freed up enough workforce to start going ahead full speed with another 2-3 console game's development (and maybe start the pre-development of 1-2 more games with a small team with only some key members).
If they didn't kill it, they beat it to within an inch of its life. Seeing one of my favourite franchises in any entertainment medium experience such a massive fall permanently dampened my belief in SE as a company.
Yet... it hasn't been a long time since Ito has had a game? Think you need to re-look your Square devs there, bud.
Meh, while Toriyama is a bad storyteller and they ended up rushing out XIII-2 & LR, there were plenty of things to like in each and every one of the Lightning trilogy games (especially in the combat side of things) that prove that they haven't completely lost it. FFXV just needs to avoid time travel, Jesus Lightning and other silly stuff from the Lightning trilogy and offer more room for exploration. They seem to be well on their way to offer what could be one of the biggest worlds in gaming, so exploration shouldn't feel too limited, and they are trying to keep the story relatively simple (it's about warring nations fighting over the last crystal in the world, not demi-gods wanting to sacrifice humanity or the protector of a little girl having to see her death time and time again which drives him mad with grief or Jesus-ing everyone to heaven).
It's your prediction skills that suck. What has Square Enix done lately that sucks? Theatrhythm: Curtain Call was awesome. Bravely Default is pretty good apart from the repetition. KH1.5 & 2.5 and FFX | X-2 HD are some of the best HD Remasters in existence. Drakengard III is a game I don't think anyone thought would ever be made (even if it's not the bestestest game ever). They came up with a one of the best ways to bring Type-0 outside Japan. FFXV is finally out of the darkness. They finished screwing around with handheld KHs and KHIII is finally becoming a reality on home consoles. Vita is getting some love with Chaos Rings & FF Agito. Bravely Second is coming. FF Explorers seems like a decent FF themed monster hunter. Dragon Quest Heroes seems like a cool collaboration. DQXI is in development. Some kind of (likely non-mobile) game commemorating SaGa franchise's 25th anniversary is coming. Their support of XIV ARR has been really good and seems to continue being so. They even seem to be putting a lot more effort into many of their mobile games.
Isn't only the setting western in those games?
The least they could do is reuse Agni's model :CAgnis Philosophy as a Game. Stop dreaming
