Senior US Editor for RPGSite.net ( and a resourceful source for all things Square Enix ) Erren Van Duine responded to the rumor on Neogaf.
(Final Fantasy Versus XIII, PS3)
At first, I thought it was really canceled. But then, every article that reported the rumor referenced Kotaku which started the rumor. I didn't read the entire post, but based on what I'm seeing it seems Kotaku didn't even have a credible source. I do applaud them for generating hits.
Hards right, Kotaku is as accurate as anyone else. Every big website post rumors that a lot of the time turn out to be wrong or inaccurate.
Frankly, I'm glad they brought this up. Square we should be pushing Square for a release date instead of sitting here like puppies waiting for orders. It's been long enough they announced the game and now it's time to deliver.
@HardCover Only retards support a site like Kotaku. If they are known to make crap up most of the time just to "make" news and get hits, who the hell cares if they sometimes will have "real" news, they are a unreliable source to begin with already. They have proven themselves to have no ethics in journalism, they only care about hits to make more money. Stop supporting anyone with no moral ethics.
Edit 3- Seriosuly, from 1 and a half years ago "The trailer shows just a section of the game's starting country -- that is, the kingdom ruled by Noctis' father. There are also other large kingdoms, and in between them you'll find villages. Even the villages are expansive. Nomura was once again surprised by the size when checking the game."
The game sounds ****ing finished back then/ It's impossible for S-E to throw away this work instead of holding off other games and just completing whats left of this. It'd be cheaper jsut to finish off this.
I absolutely hated FF13 and don't even know what versus is about but with all that said *gasp* YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.
How do you know Vs XIII wouldn't be anything like XIII? All Square showed is a small gameplay made over 2 years ago. Right now, we are assuming Vs XIII will be very different from XIII from pure guesses.
Are you serious? Pure guesses? The whole theme and context of the game couldn't be more different from XIII or XIII-2. The active battle system, the characters, the near open-world nature, world map, dungeons, modern vehicles, the day and night cycle, the serious/dark/mature tone of the story and the whole game. All of the key things that make this game different have been compiled and outlined in this thread: http://www.finalfantasy-fxn...
I mean even the name "Versus" is meant to signify the opposite of the rest of the Fabula Nova Crystallis cluster - that's what Nomura himself has said. The only connection to XIII at all is through the character's belief in the goddess Etro and the crystal.
And if over 5 minutes of gameplay showing the different environments and gameplay systems is "small" then we must have different standards of judgement, because I got a lot from that gameplay trailer. There's even been some analytic articles on it and everything has been scrutinized.
If this game releases, it will be one of the games that proves this whole gen was hindered by MS stupid DVD9 choice. But who needs proof when you have GTAIV little ass city and lack of features that where in GTAIII! and FFXIII linear, no map or back tracking etc.
Versus cancelled? That's odd, I could've sworn this year that it went into full production. And the part where they're not gonna announce that it's cancelled? Yeah I definitely call BS, a big company like square would definitely say if an anticipated title like Versus is cancelled if only to get people who were waiting for it to move on and look forward to their next big game.
Square has nvr canned a game before. There not gonna call it FFXV either. Ppl dont take a rumor as a fact. TGS is about 2 months away Im pretty sure Square knows by now that from all these speculated rumors they cant get away with not showing anything for another year.
Its funny cause thats actually VERY likely. Based on, if they are going to release it next year in fall, then THIS TGS they clearly are going to announce that, but during the same time, Sony next year will clearly announce the PS4, could be fall that same year, could be fall next year. But i believe well know of PS4 before FFXIII Versus is released.
It should end with.." Not so fast. I'ts not really cancelled, just delayed another ten years, then maybe coming out if we want. And it will be called something different. Oh yeah you'll all have grand kids by then and wont really have time or care too much anyhow."
yusssss. Final Fantasy Versus XIII is still coming out. Final Fantasy XIII-3 and Final Fantasy Versus XIII and the final fantasy after that. I love you SE!
Its sad because no matter how well this game sells, they could never get the sales and units that they would had got if they released it on time and released sequels there after.
Square is pretty much an embarrassment right now. They need some serious help. Financially this can't be good.
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They're always the people that have never visited the site, refuse to read anything they say, and assume it's bad 100% of the time.
Frankly, I'm glad they brought this up. Square we should be pushing Square for a release date instead of sitting here like puppies waiting for orders. It's been long enough they announced the game and now it's time to deliver.
Only retards support a site like Kotaku.
If they are known to make crap up most of the time just to "make" news and get hits, who the hell cares if they sometimes will have "real" news, they are a unreliable source to begin with already.
They have proven themselves to have no ethics in journalism, they only care about hits to make more money.
Stop supporting anyone with no moral ethics.
EDIT
I got a disagree yet the submitter of this article edited this story this way.
"Submitted by KingOptimusOrigin111 3h ago | rumor"
:P
It's not 'Edward' it's 'Erren.' She's not a dude.
Edit---oh well, only 2 months(sigh) till we find out
Edit 2-
Wow again though 1 and a half years ago = this
http://andriasang.com/comtq...
http://andriasang.com/comtq...
I just cannot believe the notion that S-E cancelled something so far along
Edit 3- Seriosuly, from 1 and a half years ago
"The trailer shows just a section of the game's starting country -- that is, the kingdom ruled by Noctis' father. There are also other large kingdoms, and in between them you'll find villages. Even the villages are expansive. Nomura was once again surprised by the size when checking the game."
The game sounds ****ing finished back then/ It's impossible for S-E to throw away this work instead of holding off other games and just completing whats left of this. It'd be cheaper jsut to finish off this.
So when the cancelled rumours popped up... he was really pissed... I forwarded this, so he could feel better
My other friend, simply wants this to come out, so they can work on KH3... a series that I have played very little of
If this game is actually coming out... I might try it out
People were overreacting to a rumor smh
Or are you just running your mouth?
But I hear it had a mature theme so it won't be all gay and emo like FF13.
http://youtu.be/vkZvdT3QS4k
I mean even the name "Versus" is meant to signify the opposite of the rest of the Fabula Nova Crystallis cluster - that's what Nomura himself has said. The only connection to XIII at all is through the character's belief in the goddess Etro and the crystal.
And if over 5 minutes of gameplay showing the different environments and gameplay systems is "small" then we must have different standards of judgement, because I got a lot from that gameplay trailer. There's even been some analytic articles on it and everything has been scrutinized.
yet FFXIII Versus isn't and its running on a Bluray?...interesting. I'm sure space has nothing to do with it. LMFAO!
http://gematsu.com/2010/03/...
If this game releases, it will be one of the games that proves this whole gen was hindered by MS stupid DVD9 choice. But who needs proof when you have GTAIV little ass city and lack of features that where in GTAIII! and FFXIII linear, no map or back tracking etc.
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I KNEW ITS A RUMOR ತಎತ
'Wada was fired from SE' is the kinda rumour they should have started if they wanted their hits to cross over 9000
And brought back Sakaguchi T_T
it's no longer in my Chrome favorites list from years.
Square is pretty much an embarrassment right now. They need some serious help. Financially this can't be good.