Square Enix fulfils their pledge to Nintendo

GBA News | Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VI and Mario Basketball announced, as well as new details on Final Fantasy III.

After our previously ‘unexpected’ announcement of the development of Final Fantasy IV for the GBA, president of Square Enix, Youichi Wada, has today announced the development of Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI for the Game Boy Advance.

While no specific dates were revealed for the two titles, it is expected that both titles will include similar extras to what Final Fantasy IV will receive – new items, characters and areas.

In other news, Youchi Wada announced that a 100% remade Final Fantasy III is still in development for the DS, after much speculation that lead us to believe otherwise. Square Enix showed off a small glimpse of the title in action at the recent Nintendo Conference, which showed characters and environments in 3D, in a similar style to Secret of Mana.

Will the love ever stop between Square Enix and Nintendo? Apparently not, with the announcement that Square Enix will be the developers behind Mario’s first Basketball outing for the Nintendo DS later next year, which will also feature online play.

No specific release dates have been revealed on any of the mentioned Square Enix titles, but it seems at this stage that mid-2006 is a likely target.

The first screenshot from Mario Basketball and a couple screen captures of Final Fantasy III can be found in the media panel to the right.

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19 Comments

NismoR34

7 years ago

Is it just me or is Basketball really random for Square Enix?

Gtpod

7 years ago

Yeah, 'tis.

FFVI on GBA'll be fun I bet...

838 La

7 years ago

But the Grapic for Basketball looks impressive, I can't wait til they make mario tennis on it.

EvilHayama

7 years ago

Maybe the Enix half is making the BBall game? I don't know much about their sports titles.

When these games get released that means all FF games up to 6 will be playable on DS/GBA... Can a 2d remix of FF7 be far behind?

DancesInUnderwear

7 years ago

Basketball is a strange choice, but its Wi-Fi enabled, so it should be awesome anyway.

thechu

7 years ago

The Final Fantasy III screens look really promising. I'm looking forward to it.

838 La

7 years ago

Hmmm... I wonder what other Mario Sport title would be next.

Mario Wrestling (sounds crap already)
The Mario Olympic Games (oh yeah btw is Track & Field on NES by Nintendo?)
Mario table tennis
Mario tenpin

Man I could almost start a new topic about "What Mario spin-off would you like to play"

plufim

7 years ago

Amsuingly, PSP is still yet to have an actual Final Fantasy RPG announced for it yet. All there is so far is another FF7 spinoff :/

Sunrider

7 years ago

I guess Nintendo were inspired after seeing NBA Street.

It would be cool if some Square characters were unlockables. Say Cloud for example.

Andronicus

7 years ago

Another Mario spin-off title... I am so excited about this...

(SARCASM!)

Basketball is random, but you can see where the idea came from.
It was only a matter of time before the DS was subject to the Mario sports spin-offs that the other Nintendo systems have been.

I'll stick to my Mario platformers, thanks...

theory

7 years ago

838 La wrote

oh yeah btw is Track & Field on NES by Nintendo?

Konami

DancesInUnderwear

7 years ago

Sunrider wrote

I guess Nintendo were inspired after seeing NBA Street.

It would be cool if some Square characters were unlockables. Say Cloud for example.

Geno and Mallow spring to mind. As does a port of SMRPG - maybe in there next announcement, along with whatever final fantasy games are left.

Andronicus

7 years ago

A port of "Super Mario RPG" would be pretty darn awesome!

Capoeira

7 years ago

Or what about a brand new Paper Mario Game? I loved SMRPG, but the Paper Mario games are just soo much better. Oh great, now I've got my hopes up...

Andronicus

7 years ago

Or better yet, make the handheld installment of "Paper Mario" into a "Paper Luigi" adventure...
I like my idea the best!

DancesInUnderwear

7 years ago

No, make it Paper Waluigi and you really got something there.

Or Paper Fawful.

Capoeira

7 years ago

Waluigi I've heard of, but Fawful? Who is that?

Infested Jibbs

7 years ago

*Uses all the power of his mind without googling*

Isnt Fawful the evil lil sidekick in mario and luigi-super star saga?The one with the 'spirally' eyes?

Yes i think i right.Good for me.

Andronicus

7 years ago

You don't know who Fawful is?

Shame, shame, shame...