It’s no secret that Final Fantasy XIII, the thirteen entry in the quintessential RPG series, is a very ambitious project for Square Enix. Especially given the fact that it has been in development for over five years now. Sales will need to be astronomically high to break even. How high? Ten times the amount of smaller titles, says producer Yoshinori Kitase in an interview with EDGE:

You’re right there is an unusual sort of pressure on Final Fantasy XIII. I’d say we need this game to have ten times the success of these smaller titles.

By “smaller titles,” Kitase presumably means the likes of efforts such as The Last Remnant, which sold around half a million copies. Not very far-fetched for XIII to surpass those figures by a multiple of ten, seeing as the series has a huge and very loyal fanbase.

Japan will have its first taste of FFXIII later this month in the form of a playable demo. No solid release date for the final project has been finalized in any region as of yet.

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