Why this game got both a GBA and DS remake?

[Ikagura]

Just asking why this one and not FF6.

Also why FF3 never got its Advance remake either?

[Devsman]

Because this is the better game!

But that's just my opinion. I don't know what the actual reason is.

This may apply for 3, though. I haven't played original 3, but from what I hear it more or less wasn't worth playing until the DS remake.

[Ikagura]

引用自 Devsman：

Because this is the better game!

But that's just my opinion. I don't know what the actual reason is.

This may apply for 3, though. I haven't played original 3, but from what I hear it more or less wasn't worth playing until the DS remake.

Then what about FF6?

[Alice and Astreus Grimaude]

The 3 remake planned for Wonderswan Color and possibly GBA was deemed so complex that it would always be somewhat limited by cartridge space iirc.

[Ikagura]

引用自 Alice and Astreus Grimaude：

The 3 remake planned for Wonderswan Color and possibly GBA was deemed so complex that it would always be somewhat limited by cartridge space iirc.

I guess that FF3 was already big for the NES.

We'll finally get a 2D FFIII after all this time.

[Speedhands]

引用自 Ikagura：

Just asking why this one and not FF6.

Also why FF3 never got its Advance remake either?

because MONEY. lol FF6 is perfect just the way it is. They are afraid to touch it and it's also quite massive. That's the real reason.

[Pack 4 Potatoes]

I used to assume they would do a 3D remake of 5 and 6 after they did 3 and 4, but that didn't happen. Maybe they have something else planned for 5 and 6. Maybe they stopped because 3D remake of FF4 wasn't profitable. I have no idea.

[Gibbeynator]

引用自 Stop Potato Hate：

I used to assume they would do a 3D remake of 5 and 6 after they did 3 and 4, but that didn't happen. Maybe they have something else planned for 5 and 6. Maybe they stopped because 3D remake of FF4 wasn't profitable. I have no idea.

Well, immediately after the 4 remake would have been the SaGa remakes. After that seemed to be a period of Square distancing themselves from dedicated portables, since we never got PROPER 2D remakes of 5 or 6 either.

[Regal Pixel King]

Well it was clear that SE wanted to have FF4-6 remakes on the GBA as the "FF Advance" trilogy. The reason that they remake FF4-6 is probably because it was a fairly easy project. As for why FF1 and 2 got remakes on the GBA but not 3 is because in Japan, there was handheld console called the Wonderswan Color. Square (not Square Enix at the time) made a deal with Bandai to remake some of the classic Final Fantasy games for their console. The ending up remaking FF1, FF2, and FF4. There were plans to make FF3, after the FF2 remake, but for reasons unknown, that plan fell throw and that remake was canceled. So the remake of FF1, FF2, and FF4 on the GBA are actually just ports of the Wondersawn Color versions. As for why they followed up with FF5 and FF6 are because it would take fewer resources and there was probably a higher demand for those two games over FF3.
Skip ahead a few years and there was an FF3 remake on the DS. We don't know all the reasons for why that remake was made, but it was clear that they wanted an international release of FF3 for the first time, and FF3 DS made that possible.
As for why they made FF4 DS next, again we don't know, but it's easy to see the reason as simple as FF4 coming after FF3 and they wanted to make another project for the DS after the success of FF3.
The reasons for why they didn't choose FF5 or FF6 are likely because FF5 does not seem to have the same pedigree as FF4, as for FF6 is up to twice as long as FF4 meaning it would be a lot, and I mean A LOT more work to remake FF6 rather than FF4.
I wish that rather than this half baked "Pixel Remaster" series that we are getting of FF1-6 that instead we got HD-2D Remakes of FF1-6 similar to what DQ3 is getting. Even if the whole thing costed $150-200 dollars (which would even out to about $30-40 per game so it wouldn't even be a horrible deal for that price tag) I would still buy it and love it as long as it was made with the same love and care the DQ3 remake seems to be getting.

[Serious Secare]

they've gone downhill since then.

[Pack 4 Potatoes]

They cancelled the Wonderswan Color/GBA port of FF3 due to time constraints and reorganized their staff to other projects. These corporations aren't the greedy, lazy developers that some of you think they are. Putting together games is expensive and difficult. All kinds of problems can crush a project.

[Ikagura]

引用自 Stop Potato Hate：

They cancelled the Wonderswan Color/GBA port of FF3 due to time constraints and reorganized their staff to other projects. These corporations aren't the greedy, lazy developers that some of you think they are. Putting together games is expensive and difficult. All kinds of problems can crush a project.

You're not telling me that Square isn't able to make a good remake.

[Pack 4 Potatoes]

引用自 Ikagura：

You're not telling me that Square isn't able to make a good remake.

They have. The FF1 and 2 remakes on wonderswan were great and no doubt the remake for FF3 would've been awesome.