{"id":26803,"date":"2011-11-21T16:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=26803"},"modified":"2011-11-21T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T14:58:47","slug":"square-enix-a-final-fantasy-every-year-will-keep-fans-interested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/26803-square-enix-a-final-fantasy-every-year-will-keep-fans-interested","title":{"rendered":"Square-Enix: a Final Fantasy every year will keep fans interested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to GameReactor, <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11891-Square-Enix\">Square-Enix<\/a>&#8216;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.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the huge success of <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11841-Activision-Blizzard\">Activision<\/a>\u2019s <a title=\"Game Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21061-Call-of-Duty\">Call of Duty<\/a> franchise (which sees a new game released annually) Kitase said that \u201cis something we need to follow up, because that seems to be the best way to keep our fans interested and attracted to the franchise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 especially considering that Final Fantasy XII was released 3 years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>According to the interview, Kitase is much happier with the 18-month time-line that\u2019s produced Final Fantasy XIII-2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith 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\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ll be able to make it available to western fans less than two years after the release of Final Fantasy XIII. Which is okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"GameReactor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/articles\/9388\/Kitase+on+Final+Fantasy+XIII-2\/?sid=e982654edf6466703fc82e9470afdcde\">GameReactor<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-26807\" title=\"Final Fantasy XIII-2 Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Final-Fantasy-XIII-2-Screenshot-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why don&#8217;t they just remake Final Fantasy 7 and get it over with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":26805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[409,211,729],"class_list":["post-26803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-final-fantasy","tag-square-enix","tag-yoshinori-kitase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26809,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26803\/revisions\/26809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}