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Cita:This info comes hot from a recent interview with Final Fantasy Brand Director, Shinji Hashimoto, while he was at Japan Expo earlier this month. The new project of Hiroyuki Ito is not directly stated to be FFXVI, but judging by how much depth Hashimoto says Ito is putting into the gameplay systems, it's definitely a game for PS4/One and one that looks to surpass the battle system complexity of ADB and Gambits in FFXII.

Full quote and source:

    RPG Site: I can see Nomura-san's crew need the room back for their next interview, so I'm going to wrap up by betraying my inner fan and ask a more specific talent question - Hiroyuki Ito, the creator of ATB, the director of FF9 - my favourite, which of course you produced - and FF12... Is he still at the company - and is he working on anything that we already know about?

    Hashimoto: [laughs] You're a very unique journalist, asking about Ito-san! Yeah. He's still at Square Enix. He's been planning and doing some proposals for a new project at the moment, so... Really, he's the kind of guy that wants to challenge new things all the time, so, yeah. At the moment, he's doing... [laughs] He's putting some ideas together.

    RPG Site: I'm very interested to see what he does next. For RPG gameplay systems I really do feel he's one of the best there is; one of your strongest assets.

    Hashimoto: Like you say, he's very talented and very involved. He's very, very in-depth... he likes the depth of the gameplay systems side of things. He really loves to go really deep on mechanics and things, and that takes time. I'm very excited to see his ideas soon!

Fuentes:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/932981-fi...v/66812835
http://www.rpgsite.net/interviews/457-ta...-hashimoto

Me gustaría ver a Ito muy metido en un proyecto de FF. Para mí sería buena señal una gran implicación de un hombre con tanta experiencia en la serie (desgraciadamente la noticia no confirma que ese juego sea FFXVI... ya veremos). Estamos hablando de alguien que durante muchísimos años aportó ideas interesantes, además de ser el director de FFVI (junto con Kitase) y FFIX; yo podría volver a tener esperanzas xD

Y bueno sí, también dirigió durante el tortuoso desarrollo de FFXII xD

Edito:

Cita:RPG Site: Along those lines - theoretically - if a Western Studio approached you and said "We want to pitch you a FF spin-off with a Western flavour," what would you say?

Hashimoto: [laughs] I wouldn't say no straight away! [laughs] It depends on the proposal and everything, though, of course. Obviously Final Fantasy is traditionally a Japanese game, so it would really just depend on how discussion goes. But, yes - if any Western studio actually approached us, we'd of course think about it.

Bueno, no sé si sería buena idea, el "rol occidental" no es que esté para tirar cohetes en la actualidad (sin contar kickstarters y a falta de ver qué tal salen). Otra posibilidad sería una aproximación al estilo Anachronox... pero más allá de experimentos, lo que me gustaría es que no olvidaran elementos clásicos de la serie. Lo sé, con el tema FF suelo ser muy tradicional :$