| darkknightkryta said: Last Rebellion and Infinite Undiscovery were only published by Square (Infinite Undiscovery originally to be published by Microsoft). The 5 year dev time for Final Fantasy XIII is Wada's fault cause after 2.5 years of dev and game development going no where he should have hammered down and be like "This game's getting released next year". I mean; the game didn't get into full development until a year and a half before its release (Which is pretty much why the game is an incoherent mess). Same with Final Fantasy 14, I mean people should have realized how bad the game was and it should never have been released, yet he let it release in the messy state it was in. Yes Wada is a business man and yes it's his fault the company isn't being run properly. Like I'll cut him some slack his producers and such for games should be managing things better, but it's Wada's job to make sure they're doing their jobs, the entire upper management is a mess right now and that's Wada's job to fix. |
How is Wada not running the company well. he's bought out Eidos, he managed to get Arkham Asylum, (although not the sequel) and hes secured relations with Nintendo that have ensured Dragon Quest 9 monumental success in Japan and to some extent a success in the west. he secured a deal with Microsoft for FF13s multiplatform release.
the Tomb Raider reboot, the Deus Ex reboot are the closest SE are ever going to get to the western market, and Wada the CEO - knows how to do these things - because unlike Sakaguchi who was a game designer - Wada wont gamble the company on a CGI movie, he will make calculated decisions on how to run a business - because unlike Sakaguchi, Wada is a trained business man.
Wada allocated resources to the FF14 and FF13 team, and those teams failured miserabily. i mean is it Wada's fault Kitase decided to move development from the PS2 onto the PS3 - then develop a million dollar game engine that has now been scrapped. okay Wada allocated resources - but its not his fault Production Team 1 are shit game designers.
even Nomura has taken what 7 years on FF Versus, Wada has let it slide - can you really blame him for this, FF13 came out with a mixed reception, yet the fans went crazy at Wada - but he had nothing to do with the games design. i have no idea whats going on with upper management - so i can comment in this respect.
