14 DAY TRIAL // Video game publisher Square Enix might have some problems when it comes to selling modern Final Fantasy video games, with the XIV MMO underperforming and XIII-2 doing worse in Japan during its first month than any other modern era release, but the company is determined to deliver remakes of older games in the series for the PlayStation 3 home console and the Vita handheld.
Yoshinori Kitase, who is a producer working on the Final Fantasy series, spoke to M! Games, a German magazine, and said that remakes of Final Fantasy X at that time in development were re-imaginations of the game and not just the same experience with upgraded graphics and improved connectivity.
Kitase says that he will be tasked with “ensure that the remake of the game will have the same quality as the original,” despite not taking the same producing role that he took during the development of the original game.
Final Fantasy X was first launched on the PlayStation 2 in December 2001 for the gamers in Japan and in North America.
The May 2002 launch date of Europe means that Square Enix has a very good chance of launching the remakes in the coming months in order to take advantage of the 10-year anniversary.
Development of PlayStation Vita and PS3 versions of Final Fantasy X was made official at the Tokyo Game Show by Shinki Hashimoto, one of the executive producers at Square Enix.
The European and North American versions of Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be launched in late January and early February, and gamers will be able to judge for themselves whether the completely new games are better than the remade ones.
Square Enix is one of the biggest developers of Japanese role-playing titles in the world of games, and if the Final Fantasy series flounders, the entire company might be in a perilous position.