I'm a really big fan of FFVII and I've been dying to see its remake come to life. Recently, I decided to make some research about it, and I actually believe that the remake is already being made. Bear with me on this, and please comment and tell me what you think, based on the information you have gathered.

So, after the tremendous success of FFVII, at E3 2005 there was a FFVII PS3 Tech Demo shown to everyone just "to show off the graphical capabilities of sony's next gen console". Before anything, let's look at what's obvious. Sony could have presented the graphical capabilities of the PS3 in millions of ways, with or without showing off an old game, having said that, I believe it was an amazing publicity stunt pulled off by Square Enix, due to the remake chaos that it created.

After the incident, Square Enix was obviously pressured, not only at the time but years after as well. Initially, they said it was just to show off PS3's potential, when the PC Remaster came out, Yoshinori Kitase (original FFVII Director) said "As for a VII remake, all I can advise right now is to play the PSN release that has come out for the time being. Maybe we'll have some news for you at a later time. I'm actually working on multiple projects right now, I don't know exactly what new projects I'll be taking on after XIII, but I am working on Final Fantasy Agito XIII, too. Maybe I'll be able to focus a little more on that project once XIII is complete.", Later, in 2010, Motomu Toryama (FFX Director) said: "If we had the manpower and the time to work on a project, if we were to remake Final Fantasy VII with the quality of Final Fantasy XIII it would become a tremendous project. If we can get the number of people we need by all means that would be the one I would really want to remake." I know that more or less by this time I read that one of the guys at Square Enix commented on this and said that they wanted to gather the old team from FFVII, in order to stay true to its original, but at the time everyone was scattered at different projects. The most recent comment about the remake by Square was "[we] will only consider this once a brand new game in the franchise exceeds the quality of that found in FF7." As to this, I have one opinion. It is extremely unlikely that a FF game will ever attain the success of FFVII, because a "boom" like that doesn't happen because a game company plans it, it was a mix of client demand and luck, just as, for example, no one would tell that Super Meat Boy, as a simple independent game, would attain the success it did, or the Flappy Bird incident recently. So we should assume that what they mean is to wait for Final Fantasy to stand on its feet again (because let's face it, FF lately has only done mediocre shitty games compared to the old ones). Memorize these statements, because they'll be important later on in my theory.

Now, let's look at Compilation of FFVII. This Square Enix project started in 2004, with the objective of exploring and telling the world about FFVII's whole story, before and after the events of the original. Between games, movies, books, short films and more, there were launched 9 major titles (excluding director's cuts and stuff like that, that's just perfecting what was already done), in which the last one was Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, in 2007 (celebrating the 10th year anniversary of FFVII). So, take into account that in 3 years, 9 titles were launched, since then (7 years) nothing has been announced or made public about FFVII, not remake neither a title for the compilation. kinda weird huh?

After I realized the stuff that you read until now, I thought "wait, isn't there a chance that the remake might be already being produced?" So I went digging around. When I stumbled across FFXV (which is creating some expectation because of the team, that is basically composed of guys that made the best FF's), I noticed something. They have worked in great FF games, Kingdom Hearts games and others that attained success, but in almost only one they had worked in common, Final Fantasy VII and other Compilation titles. Now, remember that they said they wanted to bring back the team together? It's done. I should point out that Kazushige Nojima (original scenario writer for FFVII), hadn't worked on a FF title since FFX (he worked at crisis core later on, which just helps my cause).

Now, let's look at some dates and facts. Square said they wouldn't make the remake until an FF attained the same success as FFVII. Why do you think they decided to put together again a team that worked on the FF titles that sold best (FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX)? In my opinion, they want to make a good one out of this so they can attract new kids to the FF series, while still knowing that we, the die-hard fans are still waiting for the old days to come back. This will create an outcome, which will be rekindling the flame of Final Fantasy. Now let's look at dates. Crisis Core launched in 2007, FFXV started production in 2006 (wow! so close! and all the FFVII are there! ain't that an amazing coincidence?). FFXV should be talked about at this year's E3 obviously, where they will basically say that it will be available at holiday 2014 or Q1 2015, something like that.

In 2017, 3 years from now, Final Fantasy VII will celebrate its 20th anniversary, and it will be 10 years since they haven't launched anything new related to FFVII. So, my thoughts? Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation 4 will be announced at E3 2015 or 2016 and it will be available at some date in 2017 (maybe the day the original launched, who knows?).

Phew... That was tiring. Sorry for the long post. Of course, this could all be my desire to see the remake happen. But ****, truth is, all the goddamn conditions are gathered, there is no excuse anymore!

Please tell me what you think about my theory for the remake, you might have much more information than I do and be able to refute it. Thanks for reading!