Chances are, if they did outsource to another company they will pull a DQ as Bolivar pointed out to me in another thread. Basically the story and themes will be developed by SE employees but the rest will be made by another of course if you pay attention, Wada is mostly being hypothetical and I highly doubt he would outsource a numbered FF except perhaps as an experiment or when all the talent over there finally drys up.

I wouldn't take these words to heart, especially if Wada does believe Japan has a future in returning to its #1 status. I can see him doing what he has been doing lately with a lot of his games and have them developed together with another company. TWEWY was developed by SE and Jupiter, not to mention the III and IV remakes were developed by Matrix. This is hardly end of the world news and its very unlikely the series will completely dry up, chances are they'll release numbered entries more infrequently while they begin to slowly franchise the rest of the series.