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Final Fantasy Creator Sakaguchi Joins Microsoft

Posted by Zonk on from the ms-games-studios-levels-up dept.

Anonymous Coward writes " Microsoft today announced that Hironobu Sakaguchi, video game legend and president of Mistwalker game studio, has joined with Microsoft(R) Game Studios to develop role-playing game (RPG) video games exclusively for the next- generation Xbox(R) video game platform. Sakaguchi is best known as the creator of the "Final Fantasy" franchise, which has sold more than 60 million units worldwide, and was executive vice president in charge of game development at Square Enix Co. Ltd. until February 2001."

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  1. If you don't know the history, RTFA. by Alkaiser · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to the article, Sakaguchi left in 2001. In that time period, FFXI, FF Crystal Chronicles, and FF:TA came out.

    He's only the guy who created FF, he has no rights to anything that Square makes. What he's bringing to Microsoft is a totally different priginal RPG thing.

    Whether or not that means he's totally abandoning his previously announced exclusive DS project, nobody knows.

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  2. Re:What about Mistwalker's DS game? by incom · · Score: 3, Informative

    The slashdot blurb is highly misleading. Mistwalker studio is still independant, they are merely making 2 xbox360 exclusive RPG's to be published through microsoft games. They aren't going xbox exclusive, they are still making the DS game, and they are free to other make games for PS3 and revolution.

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  3. Re:Dream Team? (OT) by drxray · · Score: 3, Informative

    "we can't play Street Fighter 2 or Tekken online because the latency is too much"

    I refer you to

    Dead or Alive Ultimate, playable over Xbox Live.

    Street Fighter 2 for Matching Service. This used modems dialled into Capcom servers.

    There are others. I should also point out that allowing levelling up in a beat-em-up is a bad idea, their gameplay mechanics are intended to be balanced and the winner is the skilled (sometimes lucky) player.

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  4. Re:Dream Team? (OT) by BalbanesBeoulve · · Score: 5, Informative

    RPG dream team? it already happened back with Chrono Trigger.

    Akira Toriyama doing the characters, Yuji Horii of Dragon Quest doing the story, and Nobuo uematsu doing the music.