Would Lost Odyssey have sold better if it had the Final Fantasy name?

[ishiki]

A203D said:

ishiki said:

Dumb question...

However, I question people that think sakaguchi's name sells things, and if he was on the PS3 it would magically boost sales by 3-4 million... Last Story sold worse than LO... the final fantasy movie of his did abysmally (despite that I liked it), all his games had pretty good sales for a JRPG not called FF/DQ/Pokemon. Great videogame creator, pretty bad businessman, which is why he's not with SE anymore, and probably why mistwalker's doing iphone games now. 

I think Sakaguchi is excellent as developing games at this type of scale. But its ridiculous for him to release games like his on consoles with no remarkable userbase for those games.

Honestly if The Last Story was to be released for PS3 (which is impossible), but if it was. I think his name would give that game 3 to 4 million sales. The PS3 userbase is the territory of this type of game. There is a possibility the Wii U, with a graphical upgrade will change that. Maybe The Last Story will be more successful, in which case they will do another one.

I think he is great at developing games on at the grand scale like lost odyssey (which is great).

The last story, isn't that grand of scale... but bleh.

I guess we can disagree. I just think he misses the budget he got with FF, and won't get anymore unless he goes back, because those were the type of projects he was great with. I think SE misses him just as much for direction in keeping the franchise and the talent at Square, like Kitase and nomura, from going too excessively down indulgent paths if that makes sense.