Quote Originally Posted by Dudius
so I think FF shoulda stayed with Nintendo. Besides although Mario is big, it's not "that" big.
Except that Nintendo offered them far less freedom to make and release the games they wanted early on than Sony did when they made the switch. There used to be some pretty bad blood between the two companies until very recently.

But really let's look at it this way, total sales of PS2 are far greater than Xbox or GC, which means it makes sense to put it on the PS2 for that reason alone as it has the largest audience. Xbox never really caught on in Japan to nearly the extent of the other two, especially early in the consoles life, which means Square would really have little interest in it. GC also did sell that well, and Square and Nintendo's history aside, with so many PS2's out there, putting it on the GC which has sold substantially fewer consoles wouldn't make sense either. Those who want FF and only have a PS2 likely won't buy a GC for it, those that have both may buy it for the GC, but could just as easily buy it for the PS2 when it's an exclusive title. And those few that own a GC but not a PS2 are so insignificant in the grand scheme of things that it probably doesn't justify the cost to port the game. That's my take on things anyway.

And as far as FF on the next gen systems goes, I believe it's been confirmed in an article I read on Gamespot shortly after E3 that the next main series FF will be for PS3, with no word on a multi-platform release, while the Revolution will likely get the next FF:CC game, and as we all know, Xbox 360 is getting FFX!. So there's really no word on a single title being released on all 3 systems.