Quote Originally Posted by fat_moogle View Post
You know, I would love to only have to wait two years for this. However with FFXV currently approaching its 10th year from when it was first announced as Versus XIII on PS3 I'm a little dubious about this coming out that soon. Hopefully I'm proven wrong on this and Square Enix have learnt from their mistakes about announcing games too early.
XV is a bit of a special case. Firstly the team changed and they wanted to fundamentally change a bunch of stuff. Secondly they had to rebuild everything for the PS4. Thirdly they had to build a new engine. Those all add up to a heck of a lot of additional time required.

If VII only needs to be built the once, doesn't have massive team changes and uses the same engine, that's a lot of time saved. And given it's already been in production for at least a year going from Nomura's comments... optimistic for 2017.