Last week, we reported that Square Enix wants to bring Final Fantasy VII to cell phones. Today, we've got an explanation for why that hasn't happened yet: the game is too big, Square says.
"Unfortunately, it's not that it's not impossible for us to develop Final Fantasy VII for mobile," Square Enix top man Takashi Tokita told the gaming website ShackNews. "It's that currently, space will be an issue. Phones won't be able to contain the space it takes. It's over a gigabyte. People are probably going to have to wait a few years."
Wait, what? I mean, yes, he's right: On the PlayStation Network, the Final Fantasy VII download is 1,352 megabytes. But bigger games have made it to smart-phones without a problem: XCOM: Enemy Unknown, for example, is 1.88 gigabytes. Infinity Blade III? 1.49 gigabytes.
Hell, even some of Square Enix's games are getting up there: Chaos Rings II is 823 megabytes and Deus Ex: The Fall is 808 megabytes. So, uh, what's with this excuse?