[kupoartist]

Okies...
About a year ago Square unveiled their development plan for the subsequent year, this involved remakes of Final Fanatsies IV-VI for the GBA (mainly because Bandai's Wonderswan Color was suspected to be unable to cope with the quality required). Nintendo's response was a swift "No thanks" to Square, resulting with Nintendo's refusal to grant Square a developer's license, largely in light of various relations break-downs over the years;

The Science Bit:
Nintendo/Square relations have been strained for two main reasons.
- Firstly despite early development of FFVII for the N64 (a tech-demo, though only an mpeg, exists using Shadow, Terra and Celes(or at least I think so) In a fully 3D battle environment), Square switched to Sony because the promise of their higher capacity cds (instead of carts) that would allow things like FMVs (easily at least). This insulted Nintendo futher because Sony's ties with developing SNES add-ons prior to the Playstation.
- Secondly, Square decided to develop for Bandai's Wonderswan series, the key developing team consisted of ex-Nintendo staff among them the Gameboy's creator...

However (thankfully) the situation is improving. Square have been quick to "lick-bottom" throughout the last year, by complimenting Nintendo every chance they can. Recently Suzuki was quoted to have complimented the Gamecube on it's easy to use developing tools, suggesting that they actually have a developer's license. Also the man most opposed to Square within Nintendo, President Yamuchi, retires this May.

Despite all that, Square went ahead and developed FFIV for the wonderswan anyway