I think we can deliver the best that Square Enix has to offer.” And we finally merged them all together to work on this game. We had the gameplay team, the cinematics or CG team, and the game engine team. “We re-examined Final Fantasy XV‘s development structure. “I joined the project about two years ago, and around that time, we changed platforms,” Tabata told Kotaku. There was plenty of consulting with Nomura, the development team, and management to put Final Fantasy XV on track to be best it can be. When the platform transition occurred, fundamentals for the characters and world were already in place. The transition to Tabata as director was therefore not just sudden and out of the blue, and he feels there is no disadvantage in the change, development-wise. Tabata’s team’s involvement was then formally announced at E3 2013.

It was around that time that the game transitioned from Final Fantasy Versus XIII to Final Fantasy XV, and also moved to current gen consoles. In July 2012, Yochi Wada, the then president and CEO of Square Enix, ordered the Final Fantasy Type-0 team to join the Final Fantasy XV team in the game’s development. Speaking to Famitsu, Tabata detailed the sequence of events leading to his becoming director. Although being billed as a triple-A game, Tabata doesn’t want 1000-plus people working on the title like western teams, as he’d rather have a comparatively small team with people who can make the most of their individual potential. The development team is around 200 to 300 staff. The framework is now solidly in place, so Tabata doesn’t expect any major scheduling shifts moving forward. The team works on stuff only after things have been really hashed out, so as to not waste time and resources. The Tokyo Game Show demo this year was doable because of progress made since July 2012 when this shift to new consoles occurred. Tabata’s planning since becoming a director was to have progress be in lockstep towards a set release date in his mind.

He doesn’t expect there to be too much of a wait after the demo is out-certainly not years and years. Tabata told 4Gamer that the fundamental parts of the game’s systems are more or less already implemented. It is 55 percent during the two years that Tabata has been on the project. But we guess that’s more or less the same as 50 to 60 percent.īut that percentage, Tabata told Kotaku, isn’t 55 percent since the game was announced in 2006 as Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Speaking to Kotaku, Tabata said the percentage complete was 55 percent.

“We kind of started from the beginning of the game, so the first part is more complete than the others.” “In terms of development, about 50 to 60 percent of the game is complete,” Tabata told Game Informer.

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