While Tetsuya Nomura wasn’t present for the Future of Final Fantasy roundtable, he did leave fans a message of his own.

Closing the ceremony itself, Hajime Tabata talked about Final Fantasy Versus XIII’s development, then said “Tetsuya Nomura wanted to give the message that he’ll soon show the future of Final Fantasy.” Whether that means Final Fantasy Versus XIII or another project remains to be seen, but for now we can only speculate based on everything else that was said during the show.