Headline RePLAY – 6.26.12

Today on Headline RePLAY: Don’t expect a Final Fantasy VII remake anytime soon, the Wii U will be low priced and Tekken’s chief fighting game producer wants the community to act like “adults.”


Final Fantasy VII fans that are holding out for a remake shouldn’t hold their breaths, as Square-Enix CEO Yoichi Wada said it would take a Final Fantasy title that “exceeds” the quality of VII for the company to consider it.

During the company’s annual Q&A session, the inevitable VII remake question was asked and Wada conceded that the company is currently not making Final Fantasy games that surpassed it yet. If a remake was to be released now, he said, the series would be “done with.”

The Square-Enix CEO added that the company is more than willing to work on a remake, but if they did, it would require their “full effort.”

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Nintendo is staying quiet on the Wii U’s pricing, despite its expected release this holiday season, but if recent comments by CEO Satoru Iwata are any indication, it won’t suffer from the same high price trap that the 3DS did.

“We won’t make the same mistake that we did with the 3DS, which was considered relatively high by consumers,” said Iwata in an interview that was featured in today’s Yomiuri Shimbun.

Iwata promises that the console would be released at a “reasonable” price.  

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After being barraged with requests on Twitter by insatiable fans to bring back original voice actors and characters for Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Namco Bandai’s chief fighting game producer had enough, and is telling the fanbase to stop “whining and complaining about everything.”

“I believe that, before whining and complaining about everything, you need practice at taking a step back and analyzing things objectively,” Tweeted Katsuhiro Harada. “And also at being an adult.”

Harada then explained extensively why the voice actors are/can’t be the same, and that despite how unappreciative some of the fanbase seemed to be, he will continue to “sincerely comply” with fan requests.

“I have even compiled to the requests of you all spamming me to ‘bring back characters’ from previous installments. You often say, ‘let’s show the dev team how sincere we are by buying 2 copies if they bring back character X,’ but did you really go through with it?” asked Harada rhetorically. “Expecting you to at least pre-order the game, I was met with more spam, after you apparently didn’t notice that Jun and Michelle actually return.”

“I still have some characters left to be revealed that comply with some of your requests,” he continued, “even ‘bringing back’ several others. Even so, none of them are paid DLC. I will continue to sincerely comply with fan requests. However, I can’t continue to engage the negative ones that, without knowing what you are talking about, or even thinking about what you are saying, blindly repeat ‘bring back, bring back, bring back…’ After this lengthy explanation, I will be quite surprised if there are still people who still don’t get it.

“Thanks for understanding or not understanding,” finished Harada. “Whatever.”

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