SquareEnix Confirm Final Fantasy XII, Sales Figures

Thanks to the Gaming-Age messageboard conglomerate for pointing out a new investor relations press conference (Japanese text only) held today in Japan by SquareEnix. They announced that Final Fantasy XII is intended to ship within the fiscal year in Japan - still no screenshots or details, though. Kingdom Hearts 2 is still having its license negotiated, so won't be out soon. But 9 titles should ship in the US from SquareEnix this fiscal year, including Final Fantasy X-2, which has already sold almost 2 million copies in Japan, and a mystery, solitary Playstation 1 title (another Final Fantasy remake?) The company also gave sales figures for their online title, Final Fantasy XI, which has sold 340,000 copies, and currently has 250,000 subscribers, even ahead of its Western release.

Comments

Re:Final Fantasy III? I Doubt It

[simoniker]

You say that:

"selling a remake of an old game that makes it essentially just an SNES game playable on the PSX won't fly here in North America."

..but wasn't that the type of thing done (to NES games) for the Final Fantasy Origins Playstation release? However, I do agree that it might be weird to release Final Fantasy III on its own, and that _some_ enhancement is very likely. Time for blatant speculation about other titles to go with FF3!

We may find out that the mystery title is Chocobo Stallion after all this, of course :)

Re:How They Do it!?!

[silentbobdp]

They have two teams of ~100 people each, working in tandem. In other words, right now they have the one team finishing up XII, and XIII is already begun.

Of course, the teams might be a little thinner due to upkeep on XI.