from kotaku:

http://kotaku.com/5927645/rumor-final-fantasy-versus-xiii-is-dead?utm_campaign=socialflow_kotaku_twitter&utm_source=kotaku_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Hope its not true. Was actually looking really forward to this.

Why am I not surprised lol.

Personally I am inclined to believe versus may end up being 15, with the next gen on the rise maybe Square has realized they have only released one seriously milked Final Fantasy this gen and is just making this 15.

Over all i feel about this like i feel about the 15 news, nothing Square releases about FF can excite me anymore or cause any sort of action, the series just is not what it used to be.

But yea doubt we will ever see the as "versus"

Woofels said ...

Why am I not surprised lol.

Personally I am inclined to believe versus may end up being 15, with the next gen on the rise maybe Square has realized they have only released one seriously milked Final Fantasy this gen and is just making this 15.

Over all i feel about this like i feel about the 15 news, nothing Square releases about FF can excite me anymore or cause any sort of action, the series just is not what it used to be.

But yea doubt we will ever see the as "versus"

I agree with you 100%
Makes sense that they would make this 15.

@Phreak

Don't really see why not, it seemed really solid from what they showed. Also looked to be a good story, we can look for the silver lining and think perhaps in that it was coming together so well that they will turn it into a main title hahaha.

But yea over all i don't really know what Squares plans these days with Final Fantasy, they royally [censored] up FFXIV the first time, version 2.0 is looking better but still don't know if people will buy another online FF.

Will see what happenes with this and the 15 new's either way i think at this point of the game depending on what happens it could be a make or break for the series.

Should use the FF13 thread for this.

also somehoow I doubt this will become 15... they will keep Itos game as FF15... he did 6, he did 9, he did 12. He usually ends the console generation with FF.

That said, some other reliable source who posts on neogaf mentioned that they were told the game was being shown at TGS....

so who knows.. maybe it does become FF15...

I dunno to me it just makes sense to turn it into 15, It's been 6 years since it was announced. They said 15 has been in development for 4 years only though and only went into full development after 13-2.

so it's two years over their supposed development time, but in reality all we saw was a trailer those first two years, so versus development could of only started 4 years ago.

With that Square is doing these days we will never know, to a large degree i hope versus has become 15 because it seems like their best shot at getting the series back on track.

Largely though i hope it does not because that would make it a multiplatform title. Also i would be interested to see an entirely new Final Fantasy but judging from what the rumors about 15 are saying cant say i am amped for it.

Regardless though with all this flying around should be interesting to see where the series goes and what Square does about this "leak"/rumor if they do anything at all.

From Magicbox:

RUMOR: Kotaku reported that Square Enix has cancelled the release of Final Fantasy Versus XIII, it was officially cancelled within the last few weeks. One source said the Versus XIII development and resources had been folded into another game, which is to be the next numeric Final Fantasy title - Final Fantasy XV.

RUMOR: GamesMaster reported that Square Enix's Final Fantasy XV has been in development for 4 years, which began one month after FFXIII was released in Japan, with a team of over 200 people. The game design and battle system will be a major evolution from FFXII, the game will have crowd filled cities similar to Assassin's Creed....

•Including the concept planning and pre-production phase, the game has already been in development for over 4 years.
•It entered full production in January 2010, a month after FFXIII was released in Japan. Since then it has had a development team of just over 200 people.
•The game design and battle system will be a major evolution of FFXII.
•The game will be open world and have sprawling, crowd-filled cities on par with Assassin's Creed.
•The battle system now allows you to target different parts of an enemy’s body like in Vagrant Story.
•Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada wants the game to have a world scale and volume of content that surpasses The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. He also wants the game to surpass FFVII in worldwide sales and critical reception.


Judging by the new gameplay descriptions on FFXV - Its highly Likley that Versus XIII has been absorbed into FFXV as they are practically describing what Versus is/was...

Yeah that info is in the FF15 thread. That said, it also says that the director is Ito (of FF6, 9 and 12).

There is no way that Nomura is just going to step aside for ito on this game... Likewise the combats systems are way too different. FFV13 is like KH so is meant to be fast... this rumour points towards something more methodological like Vagrant Story, so its a slower battle system.

I just dont think both are the same game, bit I cna see why and will understand if this is indeed teh case.

Hmmmmmm, yea it does seem like Versus will come out as Ff15 from the sound of things 0_o'

The one thing i agree on with Sinn that still makes me wonder is the battle system, it says Heavily modified one of 12 so they could change the battle system to some sort of Time based/ active battle system.

It is pretty sad that Square have only managed One title for the PS3 even though it is 3 of the same game...

I didn't like the ending of FF13-2 (yes not even the 'proper' DLC one) but having said that I'm still VERY curious to see where the game goes and will really badly want the 3rd installment to satiate my curiosity >.< <3

...But I do wish they'd get back to making stand alone Final Fantasy games.... *nods*