Hajima Tabata Admits Pressure For Final Fantasy XV To Succeed

The Final Fantasy XV demo is less than a week from launch and director Hajime Tabata talks about the pressure for the game to succeed. Tabata discusses the challenges on making the transition to the PS4 and the immense pressure from higher management.

[AudioEppa]

They got a buy from me.

[Snookies12]

Same here, the demo is so close it's hard to wait! Really excited to hop into a new Final Fantasy world. Got Type-0 paid off, just have to bide my time until then.

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

Man what a great month this is. We get Bloodborne. Ori and the Blind Forest, Final Fantasy Type-0, and the Final Fantasy XV demo. It's great to be a gamer right now.

[Soulscare]

It amazes me that people still pre-order games... Actually, it also amazes me people put so much faith in Square Enix.

[Snookies12]

@Soulscare - What's not to understand in this case? It's not like Type-0 is a 'new' game. It's been out for a while, and seems to have garnered a lot of respect from the FF community who compare it to the likes of older entries in the series. It's just an HD version of that, which would be hard to mess up.

Not to mention, getting to finally play FF XV, after 7+ years. I don't usually pre-order games, but that incentive is just too good to pass up for me.

[kreate]

I lost faith in SE. FF15 needs to change my feelings.

[OmegaShen]

IGN and Gamespot gives it a 6.4 out 10 for no Lightning (I can see it).

Anyways I really can't wait to play it.

[-Foxtrot]

Doubtful, the game looks like it's going to be better then FF13 despite what people make of it

They overhyped the hell out of FF13 and gave it such a high score. I doubt they would do the same here then turn around and give it a low score. It wouldn't be on.

[OmegaShen]

Sad thing is, FF13-3 was better then FF13 and I think it sold better to.

[Kumomeme]

rating is something that untrustable nowdays...lot of reason affecting how rating was given either personal and over dumber reason...also rating not entirely the best method to measure game...not mention some of website kind of racist to certain devs or publisher or race...

[HentaiMasterRace]

Here's a tip, SHOW IT AT E3! There needs to be more exposure of this game and showing it at E3 would be ideal.

[Mankey]

Who wouldn't feel pressure? Lets lay a few things out.

1. This game has been almost 10 years in the making.

2. The name Final Fantasy has been degrading recently. This game could redeem it.

and 3. Perhaps most interestingly, the Japanese triple A space has been in a very odd position recently. Many Japanese games have been moving more towards the mobile and portable sector. This single game could prove to be the singular reason that many Japanese gamers will go out and purchase a console.

Who wouldn't feel enormous pressure under these conditions?

[Kumomeme]

i dont think its degrading...the brand still strong...just people lost faith to the company..not the franchise

[LightDiego]

That's true, after the FF XIII games and how Square Enix is nowadays.
We are waiting for a great Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts been a while. And of course, more turn-based rpgs.

[Kumomeme]

action based jrpg might be a trend for awhile...

[NoctisPendragon]

SE does something like 2/3 turn based "Final Fantasy" per year but they are on mobiles and DS.

[Eiyuuou]

That's good as long as we get variation.

[death_gun]

too bad it's going to faill really bad, because it's one of the most boring wanna be opened world dmc Japanese rpg game ever

[DanteVFenris666]

Open world dmc final fantasy. How can you call it crap when you just combined all these amazing ideas

[Kumomeme]

its not even close to dmc....its has features like gambit and others

also..what a boring username and avatar...death gun?

[Eiyuuou]

DMC4's sick and deep combat system combided with magic and summons? Shit man, the controller will need more buttons.. And we'll need an extra pair of hands.

[Summons75]

Just make the game YOU want not the game people are expecting. It's not easy by any means but it will mean a much better game for fans.

[-Foxtrot]

He should make the game we want and what Nomura envisioned. He's just here to finish the game off that's all. No point changing stuff because he doesn't like it, he's already been doing that

[Summons75]

Well their visions must agree if not much has changed but with the unrealistically high standards media and gamers are putting onto this game then we are going to have another 13 on our hands where the game is really good but the expectations were too high to meet. They should make the game that they want/ envisioned...the game they would want to play and nothing more. We've had too many games lately get high expectations put onto them by gamers and the press and ultimately fail because gamers expected what they wanted and not what was coming. It's sad to see devs have this pressure put on them on top of the deadlines, the hurtles, and challenges of normal game development.

[jambola]

"No point changing stuff because he doesn't like it, he's already been doing that" such as?

[MeteorPanda]

Well yeah there's pressure..you've only had 10 years to make it :/

[jambola]

Tabata only came in recently enough
HE has not had 10 years

[jairusmonillas]

Pressure? It shouldn't be too hard to make a game better than that Fail Fantasy 13 lol

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Well I mean it's been in development for over, what, half a decade now? Pretty SE would be pissed if all that money went into garbage.

[NoctisPendragon]

Good to see the demo was not fullly spoiled.

[Eiyuuou]

*Sings Under Pressure*

[MilkMan]

Then EVERY FF fan that ever was better come out in droves to support these new games.
I used to be when I was a kid, but I haven't touched a FF game in ages and based on what I see, don't ever intend to either.
They don't appeal to me in the slightest. My taste and interests have shifted.

Personally I think this series needs to shelved until someone with vision can resurrect it and make it matter again.

re-invent, re-imagine, recondition and deliver a FF experience for the year 2015.

I thought FF 15 creeped close to that, but I its till to close to home to pull away completely.

Anyway that's my 2 cents.

FF FANS GETS YOUR WALLETS READY TO SUPPORT THIS NEW GAME! seems a lot may be riding on it.