Final Fantasy Returns To Nintendo
by Maarten Goldstein, Mar 08, 2002 1:07pm PSTNormally this would end up in Late Night Consoling, but this is pretty big seeing how the Final Fantasy series has been Sony Playstation exclusive for a while now. Gamespot is reporting that after five years, Final Fantasy will return to Nintendo platforms. Games will be developed for the GameCube and Game Boy Advance.
Under the agreement, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi will allocate money from Fund Q--a fund Yamauchi set up in January to help encourage software development--to a new Square-affiliated development house. In return, Square will establish the new development house with help from Akitoshi Kawazu, a director from the Final Fantasy development team, by the end of this month. The Square affiliate is expected to release games for both the GameCube and Game Boy Advance before the end of the year. Square properties other than Final Fantasy were not mentioned in the report.Thanks Jeremy Stewart and disembodied potato.
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Square should have ALWAYS been making games for Nintendo.
The best games they ever made were for SNES, they blow away all their new shit (FF2/3, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, all the best games ever)
this is sweet news
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i used to be a hardcore squaresoft fan, never bought a ps or ps2, I might actually buy their products again now
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EVERY system has the majority of their games as non-exclusive cross platform. PS2, XBox, Gamecube, all of them have massive overlap in their libraries. The deciding question I'm sure most people have when buying a system is "which exclusives does this machine have?"
Whether XBox or Gamecube or PS2 have mostly ports is a moot point, seeing as all three of them do.
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(yes.....)
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Could the Final Fantasy franchise please go down in flames already? It's "fanboys paying through the nose for crap just because the name is on it" community reminds me of Star Wars.
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After seeing Sonic games on Nintendo consoles, we now get Squaresoft games.
This industry is pretty much upside down at the moment and the gamers can't lose.
Now bring the FF series, the Seiken Densetsu series and Chrono Trigger to the GBA and make me happy, please.
Will the Dragon Warrior and FF series have sexx0rz and produce a Enix-Square lovechild?
hehe ... so much for badmouthing them :)
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http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3160713
I take it back!
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Honestly where did you get that 5 years thing Maarteen:
The Square affiliate is expected to release games for both the GameCube and Game Boy Advance before the end of the year
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Is this some secret fund, or is there some japanese swearword that is spelled q--a?
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I mean Nintendo really wins here... They get FF games for their GBA device (you know that Square has been ITCHING to get those titles into that market), and some games (maybe an exclusive?) for the GC. Money in the bank.
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