Final Fantasy 15-2 isn’t looking likely anytime soon
Final Fantasy 15 is unlikely to receive a full-blown sequel, its director has said.
Speaking to Polygon, Hajime Tabata revealed that the team at Square Enix is instead focused on releasing smaller expansions for the JRPG, as making a full sequel would result in an extended waiting period for fans.
"If you do that full sequel model of expanding on an IP or a series, it’s good in certain ways," he stated. "The negative of that is there’s a very large open period where you’re not releasing anything. In that period, you get people to move away, and their attachment to the franchise dissipates a little bit."
Final Fantasy 15 is receiving a number of content drops this year, including the PlayStation VR spin-off Final Fantasy 15 Monster of the Deep in November and the multiplayer-centric Comrades expansion.
Speaking of the multiplayer, Tabata-san added, "What we’re trying to do with that is to depict [the] missing 10 years of history right at the end of the story. If we had tried to do that as a traditional, full-scale sequel, that would have been very difficult, but it works really well in [keeping] that continued relationship with fans."
Final Fantasy 15 was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2016 and will be heading to the PC in early 2018.
The game was originally announced as a separate project back in 2006, where it was known as Final Fantasy Versus 13. Then a PS3-exclusive, the title would have formed part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis series of games based in the universe of Final Fantasy 13, though it was ultimately revamped into what we now know as Final Fantasy 15.
Square Enix will be releasing a new Final Fantasy 15 update this month, so get the lowdown on the patch here.
Source: GameSpot