Quote Originally Posted by Melodies of Life View Post
The long wait probably has something to do with the fact that they're making 2 FF games simultaneously (FF XIII + Versus)
Well kind of. You mean that part of the Final Fantasy XIII team is doing stuff with Final Fantasy Versus XIII I think. I checked into the resumes of the people working on Final Fantasy XIII. They are working on a lot of simultaneous projects alongside Final Fantasy XIII. Here's the specifics of what the main Final Fantasy team(FF X, FF X-2, FF XIII) have done or are working on since Final Fantasy X-2

Final Fantasy XIII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Final Fantasy XIII team:
Producer - Yoshinori Kitase(Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, FF VII: PS 3 Technical Demo, FF VII: Dirge of Cerberus, FF VII: Crisis Core, Kingdom Hearts 2)
Director - Motomu Toriyama(FF VII: PS 3 Technical Demo, FF XII: Revenant Wings, FF: Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King, The 3rd Birthday)
Scenario Writer - Kazushige Nojima(FF VII: Before Crisis, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, FF VII: Advent Children, Kingdom Hearts 2, FF VII: Crisis Core, Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Character Designer - Tetsuya Nomura(FF VII: PS 3 Technical Demo, FF VII: Before Crisis, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Musashi: Samurai Legend, FF VII: Last Order, FF VII: Advent Children, Kingdom Hearts 2, FF V Advance, FF VII: Dirge of Cerberus, FF VII: Dirge of Cerberus: Lost Episode, FF VII: Crisis Core, The World Ends With You, FF Agito XIII, FF Versus XIII, Monotone, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, Kingdom Hearts: Coded, The 3rd Birthday
Composer - Masashi Hamauzu(Musashi: Samurai Legend, FF VII: Dirge of Cerberus, Sigma Harmonics)
Art Director - Isamu Kamikokuryō(Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings)
Battle Director - Toshiro Tsuchida(Front Mission 5, Front Mission Online, Final Fantasy XI Expansions, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King)

Look at all those simultaneous projects that everybody has been working on! Here are the reasons that I think are causing Final Fantasy XIII to take so long to come out...

1. Hardware Jump from PS 2 to PS 3
2. Work started on the Playstation 2 but then was basically restarted for PS 3
3. Everybody's working on many simultaneous projects

I just want the game already! Roogle if you check the development time in months for each games they don't get longer each time but they alternate between getting longer and shorter. Here they are in order: ?, 12, 16, 15, 17, 16, 31, 25, 29, 20, 61 so far.

61 months already!! Just looking at that number gives me a bad feeling, I wish the game would come out already. Final Fantasy XII took a long time also. I kinda want to see Square Enix go back to their earlier days of working on less projects and just rolling out the FF games every couple years. FF X came out in 2001! FF X-2 was out in 2003(sequel to FF X though)! We had FF XI in 2002(Japan) and FF XII in 2006 but I'm looking at the time since Final Fantasy X. Final Fantasy X was out in 2001 and Final Fantasy XIII will be out 7 or 8 years later! Enough with all these extra projects Square Enix is working on if those projects are going to delay development of the main FF team's games! Maybe they should seperate the teams more? Anyways, maybe it would have helped if Final Fantasy XIII wasn't announced at E3 2006, then we wouldn't have to wait 2.5 or 3.5 years for it to come out.

Anyways, it's taking so long, maybe it'll turn out to be a legendary game, just like when The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time came out after a 5 year development cycle?

What does everybody think of those reasons I listed for the possible delay of FF XIII?