Among other things, Square Enix plans to show off ' new, never-before-seen ' gameplay footage. That means that it's entirely impossible that FFXV isn't even more expensive than Tomb Raider, depending on how big the team was when working on that project, etc. Final Fantasy XV skipped E3 in favor of Gamescom, where the game is expected to have a major showing. They're big teams working on multiple games at once, and FFXV was clearly a game that was suspended of its development during multiple stages of that game's development period, either to help out on FFXIII or FFXIV. Whereas it's a lot more volatile for companies like Square Enix and Japan Studio. There was no stages of the game where the company/developer was stopping work to make something else, it was entirely on one game for the entirety of five years. That game had FIVE tears of full-blown development of a team of over 200, practically working on one game and releasing nothing for the span of that 5 years. Final Fantasy XIV Has Many Mounts, But Only One Sneezes Kotaku 16:12 Fri. It's something that is easy to misinterpret and make all sorts of wrong/right assumptions. Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has completed Final Fantasy XIV Niche. The problem is that it's hard to contextualise a lot of these development hell issues.

Youkai Watch, Monster Hunter and PazuDora's insane success are not things that can be replicated just because you put your heart at it. It's not impossible, but it's definitely extremely hard. Sure, Sony could start now ( with Bloodborne, etc), but those would be new IPs in a shrinking market, and it'd be a very difficult challenge to overcome to get new brands out there and draw significant attention to it.

Gran Turismo and Everybody's Golf are the only two IPs that are successful in Japan, and it's also debatable that games in those genres have passed their peak. Those IPs only declined further whereas competitors IPs nourished. Wild Arms, Dark Chronicles, Arc the Lad, Rogue Galaxy, Sony jumped from IP to IP, and honestly, it never felt like they ever tried to make them fully competitive with the best games out in the market that day. One of Sony's bigger fuck-ups (all the way back from the PS1 era) was that they utterly failed to build a healthy amount of long-lasting brands and compelling content for the Japanese market.

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