Over the weekend at Thailand Comic Con 2014, Shinji Hashimoto was in attendance and held a keynote about Final Fantasy and his past & current work at Square Enix.

During the question and answer portion of his keynote, Hashimoto briefly discussed how their mobile games are growing more popular and that he believes the console market will continue to grow as long as people support their games. He briefly touched on Sony selling their shares in Square Enix earlier in April, explaining that because Sony is in their own rough patch currently, it was something they could do to repay Sony after they helped them back in 2001 when SquareSoft was having its own problems.

When asked about new information about Kingdom Hearts III or Final Fantasy XV at E3 2014 which takes place next month in June, he had this to say:

"We would like to keep it secret. It just only a few months from now. I'm pretty sure you will be surprised.
Actually it is not only in June, there will be many events from now on such as San Diego Comic Con, Tokyo Game Show, and others.
We might tell you what is our plans, but it's better you see by yourself at Tokyo. (laugh)"






Today, Square Enix released their financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31st this year. In said report, the struggling company has finally announced a return to profitability, due mainly to the success of such titles as FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn, FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster, Thief and more.

However, things aren't as positive for the company in the coming months, considering that it does not expect to see a return in profit again before March 2015. This could be due mainly to the fact that no major title, such as the next installment in the Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts series, is expected to release before then.

In other words, Square Enix predicts that sales for their games will fall by 5 million units, selling a total of 12 million games until March next year. Any year a mainline Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts entry is released, their sales are projected to be much higher than that, possibly confirming that neither Kingdom Hearts 3 nor Final Fantasy 15 will be released before then.

Of course, this is all speculatory. With that said, both games might very well be released at some point later in the year, although that still remains to be determined as of now.

According to the report, the highly anticipated Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX for the PS3 is still on track for a 2014 release, already confirming past information. News regarding the HD remaster have been scarce as of late, but should be expected to arrive sooner rather than later.