How many years these have been in developement?
sigh...not this again.
Yes, a lot of time has passed between then and now. But during that time, they've been working on a ton of projects, not the least of which is getting Final Fantasy XV out the door sometime this century. That game, Lightning Returns,
and X|X-2 HD are all being handled by one division within the company. A bad decision, definitely, but that's the way it is.
Of those three games alone (and there are likely others I don't know about as well), X|X-2 HD - a remaster of two games which >90% of their target audience have already played - isn't exactly high on the priorities list.
I'm not defending Square here, either. I think it's a terrible idea to put all that work on one group, let alone to have so many projects going at once in the first place. To be sure, the company is in dire need of management, restructuring, quality control, etc. But bringing up how long it's been since the games were announced is a flawed point, one that implies that X|X-2 is the
only thing they've had to work on all this time. If anything, they've been working on this whenever they had some time to spare.