Final Fantasy Creator Sakaguchi Joins Microsoft

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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OH no

[mixtape5]

Does this mean that they will stop making final fantasy for PS2, or just that guy will stop working on the final fantasy series :-/. I was pretty upset that Plastation lost Oddworld to xbox I dont think I could deal with a Final Fantasy loss too!

Re:Dream Team? (OT)

[CrazyJim1]

My idea is: You start with Tekkenalike for gameplay. Add weapons. Add a huge world. Add MMORPG. Allow land control and warefare, RTS style(closest to explain is natural selection). So you want to control land to up your power and weapon/armor, but you need to defend it from others.

I tried coding it, but I quit because I realized it'd take me 15 years to code... But I should start back up because the key factor to it working is that the lag in the game needs to be less than it currently is. You see we can play FPS now, but we can't play Street Fighter 2 or Tekken online because the latency is too much. I guess it would be nice sitting on a killer game even if it did take 15 years of difficult development.