Wad he say?
Square Enix boss, Yoichi Wada's statement that the Final Fantasy Dev team should move on has confused at least one set of folks: the Final Fantasy Dev team.
In January Wada said that the team should move onto developing other kinds of games. Yesterday, producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama responded, in some confusion.
"We don’t know exactly what he meant by that. We don’t really know what he meant by this style of game. If you consider that during Final Fantasy XIII’s development, at peak time the team consisted of over 300 people. It was a huge team, plus it took a several long years to get the game finished.
"So, if Mr Wada meant that we would never make another Final Fantasy title with the similar number of people, taking as long as FFXIII did, we would agree", said on or the other of the interviewees in a confusingly formatted EU PS Blog chat.
One or the other continued, "Obviously in the future we want to be much more efficient. Having worked on XIII, we feel that we have got much better at making good games for high definition consoles. In the future our teams will be smaller and more effectively run. We suspect that is what Mr Wada meant by his statement."
It's good to know that corporate communication can be confused in any language.
In January Wada said that the team should move onto developing other kinds of games. Yesterday, producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama responded, in some confusion.
"We don’t know exactly what he meant by that. We don’t really know what he meant by this style of game. If you consider that during Final Fantasy XIII’s development, at peak time the team consisted of over 300 people. It was a huge team, plus it took a several long years to get the game finished.
"So, if Mr Wada meant that we would never make another Final Fantasy title with the similar number of people, taking as long as FFXIII did, we would agree", said on or the other of the interviewees in a confusingly formatted EU PS Blog chat.
One or the other continued, "Obviously in the future we want to be much more efficient. Having worked on XIII, we feel that we have got much better at making good games for high definition consoles. In the future our teams will be smaller and more effectively run. We suspect that is what Mr Wada meant by his statement."
It's good to know that corporate communication can be confused in any language.
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