| dabaus513 said: I was under the impression that sakaguchi was fired/retired because the spirits within did so bad it made squaresoft go bankrupt. Why would he try to get away from sony, they were the ones that distributed his movie? so if anything they tried to promote the spirits within. I admit i dont kn ow everyhitng about saka. life but from what little i know of japanese culture he was probaly shunned assuming he was fired, MS saw this as an oppertunity to snatch up someone renown for making rpgs. I could be completey wrong as well though. I guess the point of this post was to point out that Sakaguchi and sony are not at odds with each other as darc reqium would have us believe. |
My only source for this is wikipidia so take it with a grain of salt, but
"Chris Lee, the producer of Final Fantasy, defended his use of animation, stating that live actors often cannot physically accomplish what computer characters easily can, citing his experience from making Starship Troopers and Godzilla."
Sakaguchi oversaw production of the movie which means he o-kayed that decision and it probably put him in the dog house at Square. Got to love the reasoning with that quote though, we need these humans in this movie to do certain things that humans in real life can't, so lets animate everything. It didn't bankrupt Square, though it wasn't for a lack of effort. They are not big enough to take a 100+ million dollar loss and that caused the merger with Enix and probably Sony buying like 30% of the company.
