Final Fantasy XV to only have small showing at E3 2015

[Sora96]

According to the latest Active Time Report, Final Fantasy XV will only be appearing at E3 2015 with a short trailer. The reason for this likely being Square Enix's massive E3 2015 line-up which will most likely include Rise of the Tomb Raider, Just Cause 3, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Hitman 6, Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward and Motomu Toriyama's title.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

A short/small showing lines up with what I've heard.

 

[King BImpy Hail Me]

NO NOT Motomu Toriyama no no NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

I'm probably the only one not worried about Toriyama's title.

 

[Myrodis19]

Makes sense since E3 is used for western companies to show off their titles. Which square would benefit more from with showing off the games from Eidios. After all isn't FFXV still just a niche game?

 

[Infest]

After all isn't FFXV still just a niche game?

If you call the japanese game with the probably highest budget right now and the JRPGs genre in general "niche" then yes.

 

[Myrodis19]

If you call the japanese game with the probably highest budget right now and the JRPGs genre in general "niche" then yes.

Well all things considering. In the west aren't jrpgs niche?

 

[LeonBlade]

Well all things considering. In the west aren't jrpgs niche?

Define niche, you could say any genre of game is niche. I wouldn't say JRPGs are really all that uncommon in the west to be honest. Final Fantasy is a huge series, Kingdom Hearts is as well, one of their biggest selling games mostly in the west I'd imagine.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

Well all things considering. In the west aren't jrpgs niche?

Depends on the title. The genre targets a niche market but some titles like mainline Final Fantasy and Pokemon games target a much bigger audience and are an exception.

 

[APZonerunner]

FF and KH are both really a few of the only JRPG series' that truly wasn't niche in the West - there's a number of mid-tier ones, but the only truly mainstream ones I can think of are FF, KH, Pokemon. FF has been trending away from it for a long time and I honestly think 15 may well continue the trend towards becoming more niche -- I wouldn't be surprised if Tomb Raider ends up SE's most mainstream series on a game-to-game basis in the next decade.

That said, it's Square's job to work towards the very best, and their targeting of the game is obviously as broad as possible - they want to reach a FF7-esque audience again.

 

[Mistwalker]

I'm probably the only one not worried about Toriyama's title.

How do you do it?
Can you share your secret?

 

[yeah_93]

How do you do it?
Can you share your secret?

He probably means it's not going to be something important, so he doesn't fret about it.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

How do you do it?
Can you share your secret?

Use the force.

 

[Sora96]

How do you do it?
Can you share your secret?

Like all his work like me.

Or have comfort in the fact Kitase, Watanabe, Abe all nearly certain to be working on it.

 

[Sora96]

He probably means it's not going to be something important, so he doesn't fret about it.

If that was the case then Kitase wouldn't be either. Lol.

 

[LeonBlade]

If that was the case then Kitase wouldn't be either. Lol.

I think it will be a big game, I wonder what it is, I would like something new and fresh from them though.

 

[Sora96]

I think it will be a big game, I wonder what it is, I would like something new and fresh from them though.

I believe so too, they wouldn't keep quiet for this long if it wasn't. Yeah, I'd love a new IP.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

There’s not much to say other then what @APZonerunner already said in a different thread about Toriyama working on Mobius Final Fantasy(which doesn't come off as a cheap cashin like most mobile titles do by the way). That's the current rumor right now. If he's working on multiple projects, I don't know.

I'm not really worried about him working on a project for home consoles right now though.

 

[Sora96]

There’s not much to say other then what @APZonerunner already said in a different thread about Toriyama working on Mobius Final Fantasy(which doesn't come off as a cheap cashin like most mobile titles do by the way). That's the current rumor right now. If he's working on multiple projects, I don't know.

I'm not really worried about him working on a project for home consoles right now though.

He's not though, they've already revealed the director of Mobius to be Naoki Hamaguchi and Kazushige Nojima has of course written it.

And Toriyama said after Mobius was revealed that his new title would be revealed in 2015.

 

[Squirrel Emperor]

I said he was working on it. I said nothing about him being the main director, co-director, one of many directors, writer or any other role.