Square Enix Party 2007 (May 12th - 13th)

Dragon Quest Swords Screens
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20070412/dqs.htm

Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings Screens + Artwork
http://www.gpara.com/comingsoon/ff12rw/20070413/index.php

http://www.gamefront.de/
According to Jump Magazine, Crisis Core: FF7 will be released in Japan on August 2.

Motomu Toriyama interview with Official Australian PSM.

In fact, the Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII project isn't just limited to three titles - there are many different aspects. In terms of the formats we're reaching, as well, it's not simply exclusive to the PS3 and mobile phones.

From Nintendo Dream:

S-E's Hashimoto talks about Fabula Nova Crystallis:
The FFXIII world will go on for ten years. Think of it like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.
Wii version of FFCC will make full use of remote.
S-E is currently thinking how best to capture the light user audience of DS
There will be unannounced titles at S-E party, TGS and Jump Festa
Nintendo fans, and S-E fans in general, should look forward to the S-E party next month.

Release date predictions from Famitsu Wii&DS:

July
FFTA2, Mushiking Super Collection, Wii Health Pack, Mario Party 8

Aug
FFCC Ring of Fates

Sep
DS TV digital tuner

Oct
Super Mario Galaxy

Nov
Pokemon Fushigi Dungeon 2, DQIX

Dec
Mario & Sonic Olympics, Wii Music, Smash Bros X

Jul-Dec
Wii w/ DVD playback

2008
RE Umbrella Chronicles

My birth day is the same as Final Fantasy?

Thats pretty sweet. I hope its good news and it doesnt kill me 21st B-day for me :/

No news on Crystal Chronicles Wii?

I'm quite hyped for this game because i missed the GC version. 

Five Fantastic Years of Final Fantasy XI !

Square Enix Talks Future

Accordingly the company is not planning to release a lot of major titles for next-generation platforms during 2007 (Dragon Quest IX apparently being the exception). Instead, Square Enix aims to generate profit by releasing ports, remakes and lower budget titles.

http://ds.ign.com/articles/782/782627p1.html

Square Enix talks about the past, present and future of Final Fantasy.

US, April 23, 2007 - Square Enix is all set to release its biggest DS title yet, Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings. Japan's gaming press has been covering the gambit out of the game leading up to its Thursday Japanese release, with previews, interviews and even the first spoiler-filled strategy guides.

We'll hold off on our own preview until when we have the game in our hands later this week. But prior to that, we thought we'd translate a few bits from a recent interview with the monthly Nintendo Dream magazine in which Square Enix's Shinji Hashimoto shared some thoughts on the future of the Final Fantasy series, with particular attention to how it applies to Nintendo.

Nintendo Dream first noted that this was Hashimoto's first appearance in the magazine. Hashimoto himself admitted that he hasn't appeared in an all-Nintendo magazine for quite some time. In fact, after jointing Square Enix in 1995, his first work with the series was as promotions producer for Final Fantasy VII. This was, of course, the first time the series moved away from Nintendo platforms.

Moving away from the history lesson, Nintendo Dream asked Hashimoto to comment on what makes Final Fantasy what it is. "For Dragon Quest, we're developing DQIX with the series founder, Yuji Horii, in the central role," responded Hashimoto. "But Final Fantasy has a different producer and director for each title, which is why we've been able to release up to part 13. However, with the director and producers continuing to change, when asked 'What is Final Fantasy?', it's hard to give a clear, concise answer."

The current set of Final Fantasy projects can be divided into four groups, explained Hashimoto. There's the Fabula Nova Crystallis (Final Fantasy XIII) group, the Ivalice Alliance (Final Fantasy Tactics, Revenant Wings) group, the Crystal Chronicles group (working exclusively on Nintendo hardware, Nintendo Dream states) and the Final Fantasy XI group.

For its followup question, Nintendo Dream revealed an interesting bit of trivia about Nintendo. According to the magazine, Nintendo has a gathering which one can think of as a "Zelda Steering Council" of sorts that discusses what's appropriate and inappropriate for Zelda games. According to Hashimoto, Square Enix does not have something like this for the Final Fantasy series. Even the design of the Chocobo characters, for instance, changes with every game.

So what, in the end, is Final Fantasy? Hashimoto attempted to give an answer. "If forced to give the essential common points for FF, there are Chocobo-like living creatures, there are crystals, there's travel via air ships, there are items such as potions... and the genre is RPG. While there are some exceptions, in general there aren't 'sequels,' so the games that are part of the 'numbered series,' will always come to a self-contained conclusion. VII's sequel is not VIII, and VIII's sequel is not IX."

As for the games that did have sequels, including the various Compilation of Final Fantasy VII products, Hashimoto noted that these are developed under the eye of those who made the originals. It's not the case that Square Enix has handed off the FFVII world to an unrelated team.

Although speaking with a Nintendo magazine, Hashimoto brought up Final Fantasy XIII as a comparison for Square Enix's decision to expand upon the FFVII storyline through the Compilation project years after the game's original release. "Different from something like VII, which we expanded upon afterwards, with Fabula Nova Crystallis FFXIII, we've thought about an expansive world setting from the start. Under the idea of wanting everyone to be sucked into the world for 10 years, we're preparing a number of categories." He likened this approach to films like Star Wars, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.

Moving on to Nintendo specifics, the magazine asked Hashimoto for some of the selling points of Revenant Wings. "We're centering it around the story of a new adventure involving the heroes who appeared in Final Fantasy XII. There's content that will make people who played XII happy, and we're also making it easy to get into the world for those who are entering XII for the first time with the DS. The gameplay systems are also made to be easily played on the DS."

Other high-profile Square Enix titles for the DS include Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Final Fantasy Tactics A2. "The DS version of FFCC is, in terms of development, further along," said Hashimoto. "I believe that when you play it, you will think to yourself, 'there is an action RPG this beautiful.'"

Hashimoto made brief mention of the Wii version of Crystal Chronicles. "Recently, I was able to check the progress on the Wii version. It's coming along extremely well. However, developing a game that makes use of the Wii remote is difficult. For our Wii game Dragon Quest Sword, adjustments related to the remote took a long time."

As for other Nintendo-based Final Fantasy product, the magazine began by asking about possible Virtual Console downloads for the series. Things look bleak, at least in Japan. "We feel that the Japanese game market still requires media," explained Hashimoto. "Also, FF and Dragon Quest are played by a wide range of users, from children to adults, so there are limitations when you consider the problems that we would have with billing systems."

Hashimoto wouldn't specifically comment on future Final Fantasy games for Nintendo systems. When asked about the possibility, he noted the DS's success, but also pointed out that this doesn't necessarily guarantee that a game will sell. "We have to consider how we can make something that will be easy for casual users to get into."

The magazine closed off by asking Hashimoto about the Square Enix Party, a fan event set to be held in Japan on 5/12. Square Enix recently took out an advertisement for the event and the Final Fantasy 20th anniversary in Japan's widely circulated Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper. The advertisement listed 10 Final Fantasy games that will be shown at the event. While these had already been announced, a message at the bottom of the ad read "And, a Final Fantasy that's not known by anyone will make an appearance."

"The titles that were shown in the newspaper are the games that we can announce at this time," explained Hashimoto. "Of course, there are many unannounced titles that we're working on behind the scenes. We should be able to announce these at our big three domestic events, the Square Enix Party, Tokyo Game Show and Jump Festa."

Will Nintendo product be included in the announcements? Hashimoto wouldn't say for sure, but he did finish the interview by saying, "Look forward to the events as Nintendo fans, or, even better, as Square Enix fans."

New Star Ocean Title to be announced at Square Enix Party 2007:
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/party07/schedule/

Rumor: New Ivalice Alliance Project to be announced.
http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/2007/04/27/103,1177641814,71062,0,0.html

Square Enix Party 2007
Makuhari Messe Convention Center, Japan
May 12th - 13th

- Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Title to be announced. Link
- New Star Ocean Title to be announced. Link

Square Enix Party 2007 Official Line-Up
Playable & Video
(NDS) Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
(NDS) Itadaki Street DS: Dragon Quest & Super Mario
(NDS) It's a Wonderful World
(NDS) Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
(NDS) Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales
(NDS) Final Fantasy Tactics A2: The Sealed Grimoire
(NDS) DS S.T.Y.L.E. Series
(PSP) Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War
(PSP) Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
(Wii) Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
(PS2/Windows/360) Final Fantasy XI Online
(Mobile) Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode: Final Fantasy VII
(Mobile) Monotone
(Mobile) Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII
(Mobile) Seiken Densetsu
(Mobile) Seiken Densetsu: Friends of Mana
(Mobile) Chocobo de Mobile
(Mobile) Dragon Quest Monsters
(Mobile) Dragon Quest: Fushigi no Dungeon Mobile
(Mobile) Final Fantasy I
(Mobile) Final Fantasy II

Video
(NDS) Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
(PSP) Final Fantasy I Anniversary Edition
(PSP) Final Fantasy II Anniversary Edition
(PS3) Final Fantasy XIII
(PS3) Final Fantasy Versus XIII
(Mobile) Final Fantasy Agito XIII
(Arcade) Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road
(Blu-ray) Final Fantasy Advent Children Complete

Yoichi Wada referred to FFVII as a 50 billion yen level project. In contrast, he referred to the Fabula Nova Crystallis project as being on the scale of 100 billion yen.

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Motomu Toriyama: In fact, the Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII project isn't just limited to three titles - there are many different aspects. In terms of the formats we're reaching, as well, it's not simply exclusive to the PS3 and mobile phones.

Shinji Hashimoto: The FFXIII world will go on for ten years. Think of it like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.

There is the big Wii announcement all the sheep were hyping up. :lol:

There is the big Wii announcement all the sheep were hyping up. :lol:

Gamer46

[QUOTE="Gamer46"]

There is the big Wii announcement all the sheep were hyping up. :lol:

Hewkii

He is really misinformed, he foams at the mouth at any chance to "own" Nintendo fans but usually ends up short handed.  

New Star Ocean Title to be announced at Square Enix Party 2007:
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/party07/schedule/

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Great I relly like Star Ocean 3, can't wait for this one, in fact I can't wait to see all of them. 

Is this square enix party like a press conference? will we get to see a streaming vid or text translation or somethinng?Dahaka-UK

It's a 2-day event where Square-Enix showcase many of their future titles. 
 
Here's GameSpot's coverage of Square-Enix Party 2005
http://gamespot.com/features/squeenix0705/index.html

[QUOTE="Ultimas_Blade"][QUOTE="LoG-Sacrament"]

[QUOTE="D0wnfall1"]FFVII Remake for the PS3 and maybe 360. You heard it here first. LoG-Sacrament

edit: im just thinking of this now. it would be one of the longest delayed releases ever for xbox(about 10 years i think).

you do know that theres a pc version already for a long time now right? 

Final Fantasy II Official Site Launch
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ff20th/FF2.html

At the end of the promotional video, Square-Enix hints at more FF titles:

"The world of Final Fantasy on PSP"
"FF1, FF2, and more..."

Final Fantasy II Official Site Launch
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ff20th/FF2.html

At the end of the promotional video, Square-Enix hints at more FF titles:

"The world of Final Fantasy on PSP"
"FF1, FF2, and more..."

-cnc-

Awesome. I've been wondering what Square has planned for the PSP after Crisis Core. Guess I may not have to wait long to find out.

SE has made some of my favourite games of all times.

Where Square goes, I go. 

Dragon Quest IX has been added to games line-up (Video)
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/party07/titles/dq9/

The Crisis Core: FF7 Official Site has updated with the Jump Festa 2007 Trailer. A Release Date has not been confirmed.
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ccff7/

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (DS) New Gameplay Video
http://www.ffccnews.jp/2007/05/49.html

http://www.gamefront.de/

Square trademarks the name "The Last Remnant" in North America.

"The Final Fantasy" the last one in the series, ever. Maybe they will kill there franchise off respectfully like r-type did. Not a FF hater, but that would be suitable for such a big anniversary.samusarmada

They have no reason too, if they keep making good FF's, or go back to making good ones i should say. Keep it going ^^ they have new storys each time, its these spin offs i hate.  It feels like unless you dont buy it, you loose a good section of the story. and some of them are just plain not needed.  FF x-2 and Dirge are good examples.

http://www.jeux-france.com/news20087_ffxii-revenant-wings-2-en-discussion.html

Final Fantasy: Revenant Wings 2 in discussion

In an interview with Japanese site Mantan Web, Motomu Toriyama said he is interested in making "Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings 2". The game sold 300,000 units on its first week in Japan.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=163220

Interview with Hiromichi Tanaka

A lot of people are asking whether Final Fantasy VII will ever be available on DS?

Tanaka: The main thing is the timing. If we have time it is possible to do a remake of an original game but because we are at the time where the machines are changing with Wii, 360 and PS3 coming out, the development team tends to work on these games so that's the way things are going at the moment.

Dissidia Final Fantasy announced, to be released on PSP
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/dissidia/

"Fantasy is Endless"
"Fantasy has no Limited Form"
"Information revealed at Square Enix Party 2007"

*crosses fingers* common! multiplat ff multiplat ff!!

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20070508/dss.htm

Square Enix has announced the price and release date for the first wave of DS S.T.Y.L.E. titles.

Chikyuu no Arukikata DS: Italy/France/Thailand (travel guide)
July 5th -  2,940 yen (sold seperately)

DS de c-lassic Kiitemimasenka (c.lassical music)
July 5th - 3,990 yen

Hansaku DS Gardening Life (flower blooming)
July 5th - 3,990 yen

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20070508/dss.htm

Square Enix has announced the price and release date for the first wave of DS S.T.Y.L.E. titles.

Chikyuu no Arukikata DS: Italy/France/Thailand (travel guide)
July 5th -  2,940 yen (sold seperately)

DS de c-lassic Kiitemimasenka (c.lassical music)
July 5th - 3,990 yen

Hansaku DS Gardening Life (flower blooming)
July 5th - 3,990 yen

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Umm, im gonna guess those games dont leave Japan. Carmilla31

I wonder if they have a wall peeling game too.

/half-sarcasm half-bemusement.

[QUOTE="Carmilla31"]Umm, im gonna guess those games dont leave Japan. Jandurin

I wonder if they have a wall peeling game too.

/half-sarcasm half-bemusement.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"]

[QUOTE="Carmilla31"]Umm, im gonna guess those games dont leave Japan. omarguy01

I wonder if they have a wall peeling game too.

/half-sarcasm half-bemusement.

Do not want 20 year old franchises and JRPG's marketed around children.

Thanks.

[QUOTE="samusarmada"]"The Final Fantasy" the last one in the series, ever. Maybe they will kill there franchise off respectfully like r-type did. Not a FF hater, but that would be suitable for such a big anniversary.-cnc-

It seems Square-Enix will keep the series alive for another 5-10 years.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/709/709914p1.html

Wada referred to FFVII as a 50 billion yen-level project. In contrast, he referred to the Fabula Nova Crystallis project as being on the scale of 100 billion yen.

does 3 missing games are 1 psp, 1 wii, and 1 DS.

0 360.. i can see that because they have 2 circles near each other meaning 2 consoles together.. and since we have Dissidia for psp does are all 3.  

1 circle is small the other is big size, that means ds and the wii.  

[QUOTE="-cnc-"]

[QUOTE="samusarmada"]"The Final Fantasy" the last one in the series, ever. Maybe they will kill there franchise off respectfully like r-type did. Not a FF hater, but that would be suitable for such a big anniversary.beldugo

It seems Square-Enix will keep the series alive for another 5-10 years.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/709/709914p1.html

Wada referred to FFVII as a 50 billion yen-level project. In contrast, he referred to the Fabula Nova Crystallis project as being on the scale of 100 billion yen.

does 3 missing games are 1 psp, 1 wii, and 1 DS.

0 360.. i can see that because they have 2 circles near each other meaning 2 consoles together.. and since we have Dissidia for psp does are all 3.  

1 circle is small the other is big size, that means ds and the wii.  

Square Enix Party 2007 TV Commercial
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mGTGOHF75Xo

Final Fantasy Tactics (PSP) -- 15 Sec TV Commercial #1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=w0Myitqo9ac

Final Fantasy Tactics (PSP)-- 15 Sec TV Commercial #2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o8Wag4hz_8s