By the way the idea of a Gunblade class not only supports the current Lightning weapon that we have, but also supports the statement that Yoshida said, that they were working on a costume from a past FF title (in this case it would be Squall or Seifer, who used a Gunblade, probably not Seifer since it's similar to Snow's).

And the FFVIII tie in also links with Triple Triad which is coming with the Golden Saucer.