Square Enix: Final Fantasy Versus XIII Isn’t Dead

Fuck yes!

And fuck you, Kotaku.

I think they should spend their time convincing me that Square-enix itself isn't dead.

I wonder when SE will stop numbering their FF games. It just seems silly when you name your game Final Fantasy XIII-2 etc. Maybe when they hit XX?

@AMyggen said:

I wonder when SE will stop numbering their FF games. It just seems silly when you name your game Final Fantasy XIII-2 etc. Maybe when they hit XX?

XXX

@Sammo21 said:

so it went from people not caring about it dying to people not caring about it not dying. Great!

Wrong.

@OllyOxenFree said:

@AMyggen said:

I wonder when SE will stop numbering their FF games. It just seems silly when you name your game Final Fantasy XIII-2 etc. Maybe when they hit XX?

I wanna see that Final Fantasy XXX, bro!

Beat you to it.

I wonder when SE will stop numbering their FF games. It just seems silly when you name your game Final Fantasy XIII-2 etc. Maybe when they hit XX?

I look forward to the many vapourware jokes this game's prolonged development promises. Every generation of gamers deserves their own Daikatana or DNF.

@Recall said:

Of course it isnt, though the likely hood of it being called Versus XIII when its released is slim. I bet it is secretly FFXV

Indeed, I'm kinda hoping they do change it. This game looks to be big enough to deserve its own title.

And Final Fantasy XIV came out. It's kinda silly to keep tying this game to XIII when it's so far removed from that game in space and time.

XIII is my favorite developer.

I really wish the would just leave all this FFXIII stuff in the past and move on. Skip to XV already!

Maybe they haven't shown it in a while because when they do it'll be totally different and amazing. Here's to hoping!

I can't wait to see what they actually have, I was excited about this game when they were still rolling out stuff for it. 
 
In other news, I'm just going to assume that Type 0 is never coming out here. 

If Square were smart they would just move this game to be Final Fantasy 15, put out a FF7 remake in between make alot of money and take their time on 15 to really put them selves back in the RPG game.

so it went from people not caring about it dying to people not caring about it not dying. Great!

@Packie said:

@Recall said:

Of course it isnt, though the likely hood of it being called Versus XIII when its released is slim. I bet it is secretly FFXV

I agree. The whole cross universe thing they tried with the FF13 games was just a mess. I'd be surprised if it still kept the "13" name after TGS.

FFXV is actually FFVII-2 in disguise, because FF 7 and a 1/2 times 2 equals FF15....

lol at the idiots who spread the rumors like mad.As usual goes to show how is easy is to trick and confuse gullible people.

Given the games dev cycle began far later from the announcement, the most impressive thing of the game will definitely be the CG cutscenes.But at this point,it's like ff12 all over again.It would be better just to wait and spend extra year on polishing gameplay then release it on next gen system.You can bet your money that there will be a strong difference between that.

It will be interesting to see when will Kingdom Hearts 3 finally come out. 2020 ?

I guess this is good news for people who are not me and actually care about Final Fantasy still.

Oh, the rumor came from Kotaku? No wonder it was bullshit.

One does simply not trust Kotaku.

Not sure why, but I was kind of happy about it being cancelled. Maybe I would feel quite a bit better if they stopped using such weird titles. While XIII was not without certain appeal (fast combat system and pretty visuals/art), last one I cared about was XII. Now, the whole series became irrelevant to me. On the other hand, I'd really like to play remastered older titles again.

Well Duh?! Anyone who believed the whole "And they won't mention it to make the game slowly fade away" and then just ignored the fact that a song from Versus was offered for DLC in Theatrhythm were just fooling themselves.

@Recall said:

Of course it isnt, though the likely hood of it being called Versus XIII when its released is slim. I bet it is secretly FFXV

I agree. The whole cross universe thing they tried with the FF13 games was just a mess. I'd be surprised if it still kept the "13" name after TGS.

The lack of any information regarding Tetsuya Nomura’s Final Fantasy Versus XIII in the past few years

A trailer actually showing gameplay last year doesn't count as information "in the past few years"? OK. Obviously they've been pretty quiet on it since then but saying we haven't had any information "in the past few years" is factually wrong given that trailer.

Good to hear, just hope the final product reflect the grand ambitions they set for it previously.

Oh, they have meetings. How reassuring.

"The lack of any  information regarding Tetsuya Nomura ’s Final Fantasy Versus XIII in the past few years"

@patrickklepek, you attached this article to the Nomura page, not the Tetsuya Nomura page.

Sad to see that I actually believed the rumor due to Square being so quiet about this title. I hope they show something soon.

Oh Kotaku you're the worst.

Honestly I thought it looked kind of cool. But I do like Kingdom Hearts, I think the fighting was kind of like that from what I've seen. Good to hear its not dead.

What's in a number? Besides math.

If it's so sweeping of feet, why aren't ya showing it? EH?

Of course it isnt, though the likely hood of it being called Versus XIII when its released is slim. I bet it is secretly FFXV

Square Enix is pushing back on rumors of Final Fantasy Versus XIII’s demise.

Company CEO Yoichi Wada joked about the reports on Twitter last night, remarking that he’d just left a “regular” meeting about the project, and one of the city locations shown was awfully pretty.

"Someone has been spreading a false rumor that Versus has been canceled, it seems," said Wada, according to Siliconera’s translation. "[Laughs.] Just now, we finished our regular Versus meeting. If you could see the city in today’s presentation it would sweep you off your feet."

The lack of any information regarding Tetsuya Nomura’s Final Fantasy Versus XIII in the past few years, combined with Square Enix’s decision to apparently just keep producing more direct sequels to Final Fantasy XIII, made Kotaku’s report about its cancellation a believable one, though apparently a false one. We'll have to see.

The easiest way to convince skeptics Final Fantasy Versus XIII is alive and kicking would be to show the long-promised game, but we’ll have to wait a bit longer for that.

Both a Final Fantasy 25th anniversary event and Tokyo Game Show are scheduled for the next few months.