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Furthermore, as separate groups were working on the individual tools of the engine, there was no comprehensive software documentation to ensure usability and compliance'Īs all of this was going on, the staff involved directly with the actual data construction had no choice but to start working before the specs were finalized. Based on this feedback, Murata's team tried to adapt the engine to the needs of several game projects, which proved to be virtually impossible and prevented the engine's specifications from being finalized. The programmers spent much time on taking all demands from staff into account. 'While Final Fantasy XIII was in production, the development of Crystal Tools caused significant problems and delays. In hindsight, it should have been obvious that it would be impossible to fully satisfy all of those needs. SE statement about this way after the release of XIII and why it turned out like it did.īecause we were so focused on creating an engine for next-gen hardware that could be utilized across all platforms, we made the mistake of trying to accommodate every single project that was in progress at the time. The white tools engine (later renamed crystal tools engine) was very difficult to work with and the XIII team was failing miserably, in turn holding back every other game that was to use the same engine. Here is the second reason Versus XIII will be delayed again.

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October 2007 is where FFXIII actually goes into full production and here is the point where we can assume that the Versus XIII will also start creating assets and such. So, Versus XIIIs development is first delayed by the fact that there is no engine to develop it on, at this point the game is stuck in pre-production just like FFXIII. Versus XIII was always meant to be released AFTER FFXIII and was also meant to use the same engine. Square enix started developing an all purpose engine with the intent of using it to develop all of its big HD titles and even the smaller scale ones. I: Jan 2009 ~ :Working on the 360 port.īold parts are important here. H: ~ Jun 2009: Fixing the game based on the reception of the demo. G: Oct 2008 ~ Dec 2008: Working on the playable demo. F: Jul 2008 ~ Sep 2008: Alpha version completed. E: Oct 2007 ~ Jun 2008: Officially started development. D: Jul 2006 ~ Sep 2007: Working on story and storyboard in a smaller team. C: Oct 2005 ~ Jun 2006: Developed the E3 FFXIII demo butinterrupted the development to make an engine.

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B: Jul 2005 ~ Sep 2009: Changed the platform to PS3 after the reception of E3 FF7 demo. Issued in January of 2010.Ī: Jan 2005 ~ Jun 2005: Developed PS2 version. In this thread i will give details and info on the development timeline of Versus XIII and why it took so long to be released, in hopes that people will stop being misinformed and will stop going on about the 10 years it took the game to come out or how Nomura takes too long.įirst, we need to look at a short timeline of FFXIII's development.įrom Japanese Magazine CG world. I know some Tabata fans always give that excuse of 3 years and that Nomura left nothing to begin with but here are evidences that really clear things upĪt E3 2006 Square Enix announced Final Fantasy Versus XIII along with Agito XIII and of course Final Fantasy XIII.

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