Square Enix Developers Don't Understand Wada's Comment Either

Posted by Chris Lansdell on 02.09.2010

What did he mean by FFXIII being the "last of this type of game?"

A few weeks back we reported on a quote from Yoichi Wada, President of Square Enix, saying that Final Fantasy XIII may be the "last of this type of game." It wasn't clear what he meant, but speculation took off. Turns out that even Square Enix developers, like producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama, didn't understand what Wada meant.

"We don't know exactly what he meant by that," said the duo on the official PlayStation Blog. "We don't really know what he meant by this style of game. If you consider that during Final Fantasy XIII's development, at peak time the team consisted of over 300 people. It was a huge team, plus it took a several long years to get the game finished. So, if Mr Wada meant that we would never make another Final Fantasy title with the similar number of people, taking as long as FF XIII did, we would agree. Obviously in the future we want to be much more efficient. Having worked on XIII, we feel that we have got much better at making good games for high definition consoles. In the future our teams will be smaller and more effectively run. We suspect that is what Mr Wada meant by his statement."

Somehow I don't think that's what he meant. What do you think?

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