Well, he's been pretty busy ever since Kutaragi left: first he was tied up with Microsoft for a while doing Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, then he made those shitty DS games and wasted a bunch of time on Cry On, and then he did Last Story for Nintendo. And now he's free, but like I said, I think he's out of money and no one will give him any. So, iOS it is!

He should try Kickstarter!

Ah, now it makes sense. He showed them by destroying himself first.

After that movie Square was never the same. A good, short read about the matter: http://www.1up.com/features/decade-tragic-missteps?pager.offset=1

I remember all the things he worked on, I even bought Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey and will check out Last Story, but still, the man confuses me.

I think he should make an old school style JRPG (Similar to the SNES/PS1 overhead camera view) and release it on E-Shop, PSN, XBLA, Android and iOS. That or at least Android and iOS. All he is doing right now is working on a game and going to release it into a crowded market place, and better yet just (1) crowded marketplace.

Sweet, I just got an iPhone ^_^

He needs the money!!

Well, if he's spent most of the past decade being subsidized by first parties, and Sony has shown no real inclination to pursue JRPGs this generation and doesn't have a lot of money to throw around besides... it's kind of obvious why he's done what he's done.

According to this the game is called Party Wave, so it's probably just Gooch taking a page from Miyamoto's book and making a game based on what he's been doing lately, i.e. surfing. If this were Mizuguchi I'd be excited about the awesome synaesthesia possibilities, but as it is... it's probably no loss for non-iOS users.

That depends on his resources. Android could require additional investment that he either can't afford or isn't ready to make. Also, so far he seems like a guy who likes to make the most of one platform with his games, rather than trying to bring his games to several platforms, and all the different Android hardware out there could mean he doesn't want to deal with it. Not at first anyway.

I wonder what he's going to make though...

meh... I'm not surprised.. I totally expected this...

Anyway the best JRPG this gen still is Chaos Rings on iOS.. nice to see some extra anal loving..

What a waste of talent, resources, and time.