Or maybe not. 

Most people have long forgotten that a remake of Final Fantasy VII (as well as VIII and IX) was actually announced almost seven years ago…for PS2. While they were all quietly canceled as a result of the tremendous money pit better known as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, fans have never stopped begging Square to give them the opportunity to buy the game again.

As recently as June, FFVII character designer and Kingdom Hearts/FF Versus XIII director Tetsuya Nomura insisted that they were "absolutely not" making it while Crisis Core director Hideki Imaizumi has just intimated to Famitsu that they are "aware of consumer interest" but the current obstacle is the fact that the team responsible for the infamous 2005 FFVII tech demo are busy working on FFXIII.

I'd like to take this opportunity to make it perfectly clear that, despite Square's noncommittal stance, a remake of FFVII is inevitable. There's no sense worrying about it, because it's going to happen. There are probably two scenarios possible: Square already has another team working on it and aren't ready to announce it yet or the FFXIII team will start working on it as soon as they wrap up Lucky XIII sometime next year. It's probably a good two to three years off either way, if not more, but it's coming.

You'd better believe that the PS3's less-than-stellar sales performance thus far is being closely scrutinized as well. They aren't going to commit to a PS3 exclusive if the potential to sell 6-8 million units worldwide isn't there.

That said, is there anyone else around here who would be much more excited to see FFVI remade for PS3/360? A DS remake is looking more and more likely but the game deserves so much more…