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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: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.