Yes that's right, X-2 = fail, XIII = fail, so why not make XIII-2? Perfect idea!
I'm actually crossing my fingers for it to be good, I've had enough fail from this series as of late lol, and they do promise it "exceeds Final Fantasy XIII in every aspect", including the battle system. It's still Lightning as the main character, but that's about all they've said so far... oh, and there's a website with a teaser trailer on it which shows Lightning in a sexy new outfit :p (contains spoilers about how XIII ends though): http://na.square-enix.com/ffxiii-2/
Meanwhile Versus XIII still doesn't have a release date and Agito XIII for the PSP has been retitled to Type-0, and will be the "first and last" english PSP game to be on 2 UMD discs, I'm assuming because the PSP2 is to use digital distribution exclusively.
And there's some type of FF title in the works for the 3DS coming out in March, but that's the extent of my knowledge! I just hope it doesn't turn into another The 4 Heroes of Light, that just did not interest me at all.
And last but... maybe least? Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, hurray for awkward titles... anyway, they're changing the single player story mode, instead of being on a board it's going to look like any other FF game and take place on a 3D overworld map, with an approximate length of 30 hours to complete. Everyone from the original is still in this one, and here are some new additions:
Kain Highwind - Final Fantasy IV
Gilgamesh - Final Fantasy V
Tifa Lockheart - Final Fantasy VII
Laguna Loire - Final Fantasy VIII
Yuna - Final Fantasy X
Prishe - Final Fantasy XI
Vaan - Final Fantasy XII
Lightning - Final Fantasy XIII
I'd never even heard of Prishe before, but I guess that's because I never got far enough in the Chains of Promathia storyline...
So, is anyone overly excited about any of these? I'm sad to admit for me, it may be XIII-2 that's looking the best, if only because they promise to make it better than XIII and because it's probably going to come out before Versus XIII, which I'm still not too sure about since I still don't know what kind of game that's even supposed to be! They throw around keywords like "third person shooter" but that just reminds me of Dirge of Cerberus and that was good but it wasn't so great... one thing's for sure and that's that they want to make it an action game, the question remains if they can pull it off.