Square Enix Talk Final Fantasy, Next Gen Gaming And The MMO Market

[Blitzballer]

Senior Vice President of software development Hiromichi Tanaka and Global Online Producer Sage Suni have had an interview with GamesIndustry.biz and talked about all manner of Square related topics- from Final Fantasy, next gen and online gaming. Heres a few choice quotes for you. Click the source link for more!

Tanaka: We often get asked, 'What is Final Fantasy?', and we don't really have a correct answer. We always concentrate on making the best game for that time. But yes, perhaps because it's such a huge brand, we are reliant sometimes.

Suni: Western markets are becoming more familiar with Japanese cartoons through cartoon channels. So I think they're getting used to that kind of cartoon style which they didn't notice before.

Suni: Online games might be slightly different. Players can have so many different options - FFXI is a cross-platform online game so you can play from 360 or PS2 in Japan and also Windows. So for our next MMO, we'll also consider this cross platform feature.

Suni: We don't have a clear target of 8 million, or of trying to poach players from World of Warcraft. Even if we succeeded at that, they would try to get those players back! We don't think that's really efficient - we would prefer to target a new market.

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GamesIndustry.biz

[Garland]

"poach players" heheh, nobuo in a humvy with a dart gun, strolling round the jungle hunting gnomes :P