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Final Fantasy Creator Develops For Xbox

By WebProNews
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Article Date: 2005-02-25

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has joined Microsoft's Xbox team and will develop RPG games for the console.

Sakaguchi's Final Fantasy series, which he initiated, has sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. Sakaguchi will lead development of two RPG games for the Xbox and published by Microsoft Game Studios.

Peter Moore, corporate vice president of Worldwide Marketing and Publishing at Microsoft, said, "Sakaguchi-san has taken roleplaying games-traditionally a niche market-and introduced them to a broad and diverse audience across the globe. We are ecstatic to work with Sakaguchi-san and celebrate what this news means, not only for Xbox, but for gamers worldwide."

According to an article at Bloomberg.com,

"Sakaguchi started developing story lines and characters for Microsoft's new games several months ago, Moore said. He declined to say when the games will be released. The company hasn't set a release date for the new Xbox. Some analysts have said they expect it in time of the year-end holiday season.

Microsoft said in January that its Xbox division turned a profit for the first time, spurred by the November release of the video game ``Halo 2.'' The division, on which Microsoft spent $12 billion between 2000 and 2004, earned $84 million compared with a loss of $397 million a year earlier."
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