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Home News Square Enix Wants To Avoid Big Internal Productions In The Future

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Square Enix Wants To Avoid Big Internal Productions In The Future

Posted on Wednesday, June 27 @ 15:09:26 Eastern by Keri_Honea


At GDC Taipei, Motomu Toriyama, the director of both Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2, said that Square Enix will avoid large internal productions like those in the future. His exact words? "Within our company, developing on PlayStation for Final Fantasy XIII we required a huge amount of graphical data. … At the peak, there were over 200 people working on it,” he said. “The breakdown there was 180 artists, 30 programmers, and 36 game designers.”

He explained that such a large team led to enormous problems with both communication and testing. As a result, Square Enix will outsource their development projects in the future. This isn't to say that they will completely outsource everything, but most likely they will hire help for the art.

I know that many studios delegate out help in developing a title, but I half wonder if this isn't Square Enix's way of slowly leaving development entirely for publishing. It's been a trend as of late except for a few key franchises, but now it looks like they're willing to dole those franchises out as well. Either way, it's an interesting development (no pun intended) to watch in Square Enix's future.

Question now is, how will they develop/publish Final Fantasy XIII-3? We all know that's coming.
Related Games:   Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2
Tags:   Square Enix


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  • Nick_Tan
    Nick_Tan
    Joined: Jul 2006
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
    If this is true, I worry about Square Enix losing its voice completely by becoming a 100% publisher. I don't think they will, but it does seem they will be getting a lot of hands elsewhere, though I'm not sure if that will improve communications at all.
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  • Heath_Hindman
    Heath_Hindman
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
    They have become REALLY bad at developing things. It's astounding o_o
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  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Jun 27th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
    I think team size is not to blame, Assassin's Creed II had 450 members working on it at one point and look at the game they made.
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  • MasterRabbi
    MasterRabbi
    Joined: May 2007
    Posted: Jun 28th, 2012 at 5:37 am
    Wait, so it was hard to talk to 200 people in the same company, so the solution is to talk to 400 people spread around multiple companies?
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