I honestly don't know the guy or what he's done. But I will say that Square Enix has made some poor decisions lately. Most of them have been creative not management mistakes. FF XIII didn't sell because western gamers like open worlds to explore like in Elder Scrolls. FF XIII went the Japanese route of focusing on story and characters and a complex battle system and dumped what western gamers enjoyed, the exploration, even if it was never real exploration in JRPG to begin with. The characters and story were far too "Japanese" in style for international appeal.
That was the creative mistake. The management mistake was to stay on course and keep making more FF XIII games. They should have cut their loses and scraped their initial plans. They had all those resources and new multiplatform tools so they could have made a new Final Fantasy with an active combat system, explorable environments and characters and stories that make sense to non-Japanese gamers. But instead the Square Enix management decided to pump out more Final Fantasy XIII games.
Square Enix needs to focus on multiplatform games that a maintain a Japanese flavor while appealing to western gamers. They've done well with their western studios and Tomb Raider has a bright future. Final Fantasy is stuck in a kind of limbo. Fans don't want change, but change is all that will save it. The majority of RPG fans in today's world want Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls and it's time for Square Enix to realize this.
The management changes Square Enix had been making may mean they have figured all this out and are getting ready for the future and leaving the past behind. I for one thing this is a good thing.
