Speaking to GameReactor, Square-Enix‘s Final Fantasy producer, Yoshinori Kitase has said that releasing a new Final Fantasy game every year or so would keep RPG fans interested in the series.

Citing the huge success of Activision’s Call of Duty franchise (which sees a new game released annually) Kitase said that “is something we need to follow up, because that seems to be the best way to keep our fans interested and attracted to the franchise.”

Final Fantasy XIII was the first Final Fantasy game released for this generation of consoles, and Kitase feels that they took too long getting it out – especially considering that Final Fantasy XII was released 3 years earlier.

According to the interview, Kitase is much happier with the 18-month time-line that’s produced Final Fantasy XIII-2.

“With Final Fantasy XIII we took a long time to complete it, so we learnt a lesson. We were determined to produce Final Fantasy XIII-2 in a short time, actual development took about 1,5 years” he said.

“We’ll be able to make it available to western fans less than two years after the release of Final Fantasy XIII. Which is okay.”

Source: GameReactor