SE to churn out a FF title/year?!

[Kailok]

If I remember correctly there was an article on gamasutra about how Japanese Developers starting to admit that in this gen they have lost their flare due to the size of the teams and it would take them 5-6 years to complete a game. As Merceron is the head of the team building the new engine for FFXIV for SE, I'd say SE has recognized this as well for this generation of gaming.

"Even in public, a lot of Japanese creators were saying, as Merceron put it: "We've lost it - we don't know how to make games any more." He explained that key creators "were complaining that their teams were too big and it was taking 5 to 6 years to make a game."

But, as the CTO put it: "If you have all these problems and you are already profitable, then it is great… wow, we're going to have even more profit when we're done." Yet later he began to understand that the developers "couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel" sometimes, and "have a hard time changing process"."

Link to the article: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/3...g_Globally.php



PS: By the way, SE -USED- to put out an FF game almost every 1-2 years. I know they weren't as heavy duty on graphics, but the story was never compromised because of the time it took them. FF8 all the way to FF11 all came out within 1999-2002, and FF7 was made released only 2 years before FF8 was. Each year they were coming out, and everyone loved those games. Didn't matter they were only a year apart.