Originally Posted by
mannjon
Unfortunately for us, the next generation of gamers seems to have taken a foothold on future releases. I fear we won't see a WO game that we would recognize. They tried to appeal to new gamers with 2048, and it didn't do so well. Their attempts to modernize it may have been the final nail in the coffin. Another one of my favorites series has gone down the path of no return: Final Fantasy. I grew up on turn based combat, and I now realize that due to young'uns out there that weren't around when that kind of gameplay was popular, are now determining how the market diverges. Case in point, they made FFVX a realtime action RPG despite the dismal failures that FFXIII were to the community. They did add in a "wait" mode feature to appeal to the turn based crowd, but it is far from innovation. I doubt we will ever see another true turn based FF game.
If they did make a PS4 iteration, Sony would probably only approve the design if it had things that would attract new people to the series. Unfortunately the biggest complaint non WO vets had about the game was that it was too hard. Modern gamers don't like hard games. They like easy trophies. You can't have a game that includes both, and the money is in the newer market. It would be hard to have a WO that was both friendly to new players as well as competitive for us veterans.