Last month, Square Enix president Yoichi Wada put forth the notion that, after Final Fantasy XIII, the company might move on from Final Fantasy. It confused gamers, but it also confused the team working on Final Fantasy, including producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama. In the recent PlayStation Blog interview, the two explain their confusion.
"We don't know exactly what he meant by that," the two said. "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," they added. "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."
It looks like Mr. Wada has some explaining to do.
[via Destructoid]
