Keep waiting. It’s not going to happen, certainly not on cell phones. There’s a slight possibility they may port some of these to DS eventually, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
Guess #1: Maybe the games are simple and inexpensive to make. They’re not of the quality a title for the DS/PSP is expected to be. Essentially they are just trying to make a quick buck.
Guess #2: SE is trying to expand a “new” platform. Maybe they’re hoping that more people will buy higher end phones which will allow for more games to be sold in the future.
Guess #3: Inevitably your cell phone will be a computer, mp3 player, and gaming system all in one. Maybe they’re gaging public reaction or just trying to speed this along.
I suspect all these games will eventually be available here, in some form- perhaps bunched together as a DS Collection, or maybe downloadable from the Net in the future via a deal like the one the Wii has got.
Remember, business is all “find a need and fill it” and the international FF fan base is too big for Square to ignore.
Of course, it may be many, many years before any of these happen.
And am I the only who finds “FF: The After” to be a terrible name? Is that a mistranslation or intentional? Sheesh.
As Killmore mentioned, a lot of cellphones in Japan are sold through vending machines, and many times they’ll just throw one at you for free since they are so goddamn cheap to make they’ll make more cash with the first phone bill anyway. They are light years ahead the rest of the world when it comes to these accursed aparatuses, and won’t look at us until we [STRIKE]are assimilated[/STRIKE] catch up.
It’s Japanese. You’ve obviously haven’t been exposed to enough weird ass products yet. You should see some TYPE-MOON games, the names are literally made by throwing random words together.
From the “Japanese Mobile Phone Culture” wiki:
There is a popular trend in Japan to use the mobile phone handset to read information from special barcodes. The phone handset can scan the barcode and then take actions based on the type of content. All over Japan there are posters with the codes and in magazines and business cards. The code usually has links to a web site address or email address that the phone can access, or it might contain address and telephone numbers.
Sony has been spearheading the mobile phone wallet technology…there are many locations such as convenience stores which allow users to pay for goods using their phones; some vending machines even accept phone payments.
Services where the user holds the phone up to a source of music (such as a speaker), and, by dialing a certain phone number, the song is found in a database and identified. The user receives the song’s title, artist, and album within seconds.
Japan is so far ahead in this sort of technology it’s scary.
I can get behind that.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165719
Well, it looks like a Front Mission cell phone game is being ported to DS.
Certainly any Final Fantasy game has a chance of being ported at some point?
God I hope so. Before Crisis FTW?
Now, I am rereading Gamespot 2005 comment on BeforeCrisis release in the US, and that could have been a perfect April’s Fool joke.
At its pre-E3 press conference today, Square Enix announced that it will be bringing its highly successful mobile massively multiplayer online game Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis to the United States in 2006.
According to a company representative, development of the North American version has been “coming along nicely,” and the Japanese company expects that Before Crisis will provide American gamers with “an unexpected experience” on their mobile phones.
DS port rumors have been floating for a while – I am still waiting…
Those are just wishful thinking, though… to the best of my knowledge, Squeenix has never made any sort of announcement on the subject.
Front Mission 2089 getting a DS release though.http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165719
It’s a step in the right direction. Too bad there’s no word for a release outside of Japan (or even within Japan for that matter).
So there are 2084 Front Mission games I haven’t played? /willful obtuseness
Pic of the FF4 Gang in FF4:After. Note that Polom and Palom now wear different outfits.
They look pretty cool, actually.
Are you sure that pic is for “The After”? “The After” is supposed to take place long in the future, featuring a descendant of Cecil, I wouldn’t think any of the original characters would be in it directly.
I’m guessing its more likely for the FFIV remake coming to the DS (already out in Japan)
No it isn’t. Its main protagonist is Cecil’s son.
The original article I read, as well as the one posted here said “descendant, long in the future” and such, but I did some extra research and now I find, son, and play as many of the old characters.
You’re right, which is fine with me, Palom and Porom rocked, and Rydia was my favorite FF character ever.
Too bad its unlikely to ever be ported here. I think my phone could probably handle it, but without translating and reformatting it, it doesn’t really matter.
Dark Knight: Well, here’s a BIGGER pic. Copy/Paste URL.
http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ff/ff4theafter/propaganda/ff4theafter3.jpg
Damn You And Your Evil Hot Linking Ways!!!