More Powerhouse Designers on Next-Gen Xbox

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 2, 2005 @08:58AM from the throw-a-stick,-hit-a-genius dept.

Just a few days after the announcement that the creator of the Final Fantasy series was joining Microsoft Games Studio, Voodoo Express has the news that more venerable designers will be joining the company. Yoshiki Okamoto and Tetsuya Mizuguchi will be teaming up with Microsoft Games to produce titles for the next generation Xbox. From the article: "Microsoft is now happy to announce that the driving creative minds behind the likes of Resident Evil, Rez, Street Fighter and Space Channel 5 have joined forces with the company to create exciting new titles for the Xbox Next, primarily designed to attract Japanese gamers to the system:"

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Microsoft meddling? by MilenCent · 2005-03-02 09:09 · Score: 5, Interesting

Will MS let them work and make the games they want to make, which are not always commercially successful, even in Japan?

Bungie may seem to be instructive, but they're making Halo, arguably the system's saving grace -- it's easier to keep hands off of something which is extremely popular. Even so, I've seen people complain about Halo 2 that the story looks stretched out in order to make a Halo 3 possible. Also remember Rare, who's only released ONE, fairly lackluster, Xbox game since getting bought by Microsoft.

The temptation to meddle will be great for Microsoft's managers, but if they can overcome that then this is probably excellent news for their new system.