The Final Days of Final Fantasy

An anonymous reader writes "Could the Final Fantasy series have finally come to an end? About.com's Adrien-Luc Sanders thinks so in his article The Final Days of Final Fantasy. I'm sure many people here remember Final Fantasy VII and how it helped Sony win the console market away from Nintendo. The article contends that Final Fantasy's glory days are over, that with the release of Final Fantasy X-2, the underwhelming EverQuest clone Final Fantasy XI, and the much-delayed Final Fantasy XII (finally confirmed for a 2006 US release), we've effectively seen the end of Final Fantasy. Is it time for Square-Enix to give up on Final Fantasy?"

Re:Final fantsz more of a colection

[Shadow Wrought]

I never take Death reports/predictions in the Tech industry to seriously.

Even when Netcraft confirms it?

wheee lets try this the other way round.

[blackicye]

Square-Enix declares that About.com's Adrien-Luc Sanders' days are about over.

Sounds just about as plausible, which is to say not at all
But then again, chances are About.com or at least Mr Sanders will be gone long before Final Fantasy is.

My apologies to FF fans...

[SetupWeasel]

But I'm just glad this isn't another "Nintendo is doomed" stories.

This is where I stopped reading:

[pnice]

"Final Fantasy, in fact, was what got me into computer animation and sent me haring off to art school; Final Fantasy VII came out when I was in high school, back when the only exposure that I had to video games (due to a sheltered life and a technophobic parental unit) was an extremely old SuperNintendo system with Mario 2 that I got when I was...five, maybe?"

He had the same video game system from the time he was five until high school (what? 9 years at the least) and in that 9+ years he can't even get the name of the game or the system he owned correct? Was it Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo or was it Super Mario 2 for the NES? I'm being anal but that was enough to make him sound like my mother or father do when they describe every video game system I own as a Nintendo.