Kitase (Final Fantasy XIII-2 producer) hinted in an interview that Final Fantasy XV may be an action RPG. He says they are seeing "players moving away from games that used turn-based systems toward what you might term an action-RPG."

How would you feel if Final Fantasy turned its back on turn-based combat & went for a different breed of battle system? Final Fantasy 13 already came packing fairly fast battles, as Kitase also mentioned.

"FFXIII and FFXIII-2's battle systems have those elements of speed and action that are the key words for us, though that doesn't necessarily mean we're going to stick to the same route in our next game," he said. "That's something only time can tell."

Nothing is set in stone, these are just Square's current thoughts.


Final Fantasy XV could be an action-RPG - Edge Magazine