Square Enix still has no plans of Final Fantasy V and VI remakes

Unlike its predecessors, Final Fantasy V and VI never made it to the Nintendo DS. Square Enix senior VP and official Tweetster Shinji Hashimoto said that it was due to technical problems. Now that Nintendo has a beefier new DS coming to town, will the tides turn to a more favorable outcome?

Unlike its predecessors, Final Fantasy V and VI never made it to the Nintendo DS. Square Enix senior VP and official Tweetster Shinji Hashimoto said that it was due to technical problems. Now that Nintendo has a beefier new DS coming to town, will the tides turn to a more favorable outcome?

The answer isn’t exactly a flat out “no” but there isn’t any mention of technical problems this time around. “As you saw from Nintendo’s press conference yesterday, there is new hardware coming out,” Hashimoto told Siliconera. “We knew that was coming. We had to make decisions understanding that there were hardware changes in the near future and where want to put our resources.”

Seeing as the 3DS lineup had no mention of half-Espers and poorly conceived villain names (yes, Exdeath, I’m talking about you), Square Enix still hasn’t said anything about the possibility of a pair of new remakes, be it on the 3DS or the regular DS. Hashimoto simply said, “No decision has been made.”

[via Siliconera]