Did you hear those rumors circulating Final Fantasy XIII last week about it being cancelled? Well it turns out that those rumors were actually as false as many expected.
Yoichi Wada used Twitter to announce to fans that Final Fantasy Versus XIII has not been abandoned by Square Enix.
Wada has said he attended a regular meeting about the game today, and confirmed fans will be surprised with how it is shaping up.
Final Fantasy XIII was first announced six years ago, and although details of release are still unknown, fans can still expect to see the game at some point in the future.
The reports originated from Kotaku, which quoted an unnamed source ( there’s the first problem, unnamed sources), suggesting Square Enix had decided not to officially announce the game’s cancellation due to stock price fears, but that work had ceased on it some months prior. According to Yoichi Wada, none of this was true as he confirmed via Twitter today that the game is alive and well.
“Just a minute ago, the regular Versus meeting ended. If you saw the presentation of the city, it’d knock you off your feet.”
“There’s someone making a false rumour that Versus was cancelled,” he said. “Haha… just a minute ago, the regular Versus meeting ended. If you saw the presentation of the city, it’d knock you off your feet – lol.”
Many were convinced the game had been canned after an absence at E3 this year , with everything on the Final Fantasy front rather quiet lately . When reports of the title’s cancellation surfaced on Kotaku last week, Square Enix refused to comment on rumors or speculation, further fuelling peoples fears that the game they were promised was just a dream.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII was originally announced in 2006 as part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis series of games. The other games two games in the series announced at the same time, Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Type-0 have both been released, and Final Fantasy XIII-2 has also been announced and launched since.
