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Final Fantasy Creator on Xbox 360, PS3

Posted by Zonk on from the get-your-rpg-on dept.

Anonymous PC Gamer writes "I'm now in the acceptance phase of reading console war coverage. It's just not going away, and it won't until one stands victorious. Throwing his considerable voice into the din is Final Fantasy creator Hironubu Sakaguchi, currently working on Xbox 360 titles with Mistwalker Studios. In a concise, revealing interview with Gamespot Sakaguchi-san gives a simple, honest outlook on developing for the current console scene that cuts both ways (PS3 'really challenging', XBox 360 has 'poor' documentation). On competing with his former series, Final Fantasy: 'I'm willing to break them into pieces, crush them at my feet. [laughs]'"

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  1. Re:What Wii Said by Churla · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does his company have a vested interest in seeing the platform they are doing most of their development work on succeed? Probably so.

    Is that platform the Wii? Probably not.

    What I wonder is what Nintendo has up it's sleep in the hardware development cycle. They could be playing the "get the Wii established, then in a year or two when the costs are going down come out with the HD version." I really don't know.

    I also don't agree with him over Wii Sports, the models in that game do exactly what they need to. But it's a "realism v. gameplay" argument and obviously he has his side.

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  2. Harsher on the PS3 than just 'really challenging'. by Xenex · · Score: 3, Interesting
    To quote the article:

    GS: With this generation, Sony and Nintendo are doing different things from each other and also from Microsoft. Each has its own strategy this time. What do you think of their individual approaches? Do the things they're doing make you want to develop for either of their systems?

    HS: [in English] Ah, Kutaragi-san's architecture...seven DSPs and a low-powered CPU. I don't like the PS3's architecture.
    Oooh, snap!