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Earlier this year Square Enix president Yoichi Wada indicated that Final Fantasy XIII could be the last game of its kind, suggesting an end to the traditionally epic RPG series, at least as we know it.
However, speaking in a recent interview with the official European PlayStation Blog, Final Fantasy XIII producer, Yoshinori Kitase and director, Motomu Toriyama have revealed Wada was most likely referring to the downsizing of development teams, rather than ceasing the development of future titles in the same style as Final Fantasy XIII.
“We don’t know exactly what he [Wada] meant by that. We don’t really know what he meant by this style of game. If you consider that during Final Fantasy XIII’s development, at peak time the team consisted of over 300 people. It was a huge team, plus it took a several long years to get the game finished. So, if Mr Wada meant that we would never make another Final Fantasy title with the similar number of people, taking as long as FFXIII did, we would agree,” explained Kitase and Toriyama.
They added: “Obviously in the future we want to be much more efficient. Having worked on XIII, we feel that we have got much better at making good games for high definition consoles. In the future our teams will be smaller and more effectively run. We suspect that is what Mr Wada meant by his statement.”
Good news for Final Fantasy fans then.
Final Fantasy XIII is scheduled for release on March 9 for PS3 and Xbox 360.
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