{"id":6788,"date":"2017-12-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/final_fantasy_creator_hironobu_sakaguchi_is_interested_in_working_on_switch"},"modified":"2017-12-01T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:00:00","slug":"final-fantasy-creator-hironobu-sakaguchi-is-interested-in-working-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/01\/final-fantasy-creator-hironobu-sakaguchi-is-interested-in-working-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy Creator Hironobu Sakaguchi Is Interested In Working On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"&quot;What do you mean I have to move back to console development?!&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/final_fantasy_creator_hironobu_sakaguchi_is_interested_in_working_on_switch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/final_fantasy_creator_hironobu_sakaguchi_is_interested_in_working_on_switch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;What do you mean I have to move back to console development?!&quot;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Hironobu Sakaguchi is something of a legend in Japanese video game circles. He created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/final_fantasy\"><strong>Final Fantasy<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; arguably one of the most popular franchises to emerge from the Land of the Rising Sun &#8211; and has also been involved with classics such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_mario_rpg_legend_of_the_seven_stars\">Super Mario RPG<\/a>, Xenogears, Blue Dragon<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/last_story\">The Last Story<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sakaguchi&#8217;s Mistwalker studio is currently working on smartphones via his <strong>Terra Battle<\/strong> series, but has expressed an interest in moving back to consoles at some point, perhaps even with the third Terra Battle title.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/olliebarder\/2017\/11\/29\/hironobu-sakaguchi-on-the-terra-battle-games-and-the-untapped-potential-of-mobile\/#36344d7b1582\">Forbes<\/a>,\u00a0Sakaguchi said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;I do want to develop games on console again at some point. We&#8217;re even working on Terra Battle 3 right now and maybe console will be the right fit for that. Just because we are developing heavily on mobile right now doesn&#8217;t mean we have completely left console behind. After all, the Nintendo Switch is a very good piece of hardware.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The success of the Switch &#8211; and the unique possibilities it offers &#8211; is attracting a lot of developer support, so it&#8217;s hardly surprising that\u00a0Sakaguchi is interested. Still, getting a developer of his talent on board would be amazing; let&#8217;s hope this is more than just a platitude and the man behind Final Fantasy really is going to bring something to Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hironobu Sakaguchi is something of a legend in Japanese video game circles. He created Final Fantasy &#8211; arguably one of the most popular franchises to emerge from the Land of the Rising Sun &#8211; and has also been involved with classics such as Super Mario RPG, Xenogears, Blue Dragon and The Last Story. Sakaguchi&#8217;s Mistwalker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}