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The Near Future of SquareEnix

Posted by Zonk on from the less-final-than-you'd-think dept.

SquareEnix has announced some of its plans for 2006. Gamasutra reports on an upcoming three year anniversary party for FFXI in March of next year. There will be some major announcements at the event, as well as information on the upcoming MMOG expansion. Gamespot also has information from the Jump Fest 2005 event, where SquareEnix displayed announced plans for a Dragon Quest VIII spinoff starring Yangus. Xbox 360 RPG studio Mistwalker was also there, with details on upcoming titles Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon.

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  1. Re:FF XII? by falcon5768 · · Score: 2, Informative
    I dont see how its confusing.

    As of now all but III has made it to the US shores and the numbers being different only matter to begin with when your talking about the carts which only diehards ever do. as it is now III is being released to the DS so all of them will infact be in the US.

    And X:2 was done in such a way to let people know it was a sequal to X. Basically if its got a roman numeral, its a game, if its got a arabic number at the end, its a sequal to that series (which only counts for one game to begin with and a crappy one at that)

    As for it comming out for next gen. they havent even anounced they are even planning XIII and XII which is comming out by the summer certainly isnt going to be next gen. IX never came out for next gen it's self even though it was released after the PS2 came out so there is no reason to release it for the PS3 expecially when its basically going to be a PS2 game.

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  2. Re:FF XII? by SScorpio · · Score: 3, Informative
    There isn't a release date for FFXII in either the US or Japan. When it's done is pretty much the only release date atm. There also hasn't been any announcements regarding FFXIII, wait until E3 2006 in May and there may be some information. If not you'll at least get more information on both the Revolution and PS3.

    As for the numbering, the only differing was with FFIV=FFII(US) and FFVI=FFIII(US). They renumbered the US games when they were released on the SNES to make US games not go.. what are we missing when there is a jump from FFI->FFIV. Releases in the US have all used the original Japanese numbering system. As for FFX-2 and FFXII, there has previously never been a sequel FF game. FFX-2 is FFX part 2. They might have gotten away with just calling it FFXI; however, that game was already out.