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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Source - Gematsu

Square Enix has appointed a number of new executive officers as of April 1, 2024, including Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi, Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida, NieR series producer Yosuke Saito, Team Asano head Tomoya Asano, and more.

The full list of newly appointed executive officers is as follows:

• Takashi Kiryu
• Tomoya Asano
• Tomoyoshi Osaki
• Tsuneto Okuno
• Yoshinori Kitase
• Yosuke Saito
• Ryutaro Sasaki
• Hideaki Sato
• Takamasa Shiba
• Hajime Seki
• Takeshi Nozue
• Naoki Hamaguchi
• Takayuki Hamada
• Kei Hirono
• Katsuyoshi Matsuura
• Atsushi Matsuda
• Yuu Miyake
• Naoki Yoshida

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

This seems pretty huge. A lot of devs and the old guard now chief execs!

 

[Exentryk]

Let's go Team Asano!

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

I'm team CBU1 after FF7 Rebirth!

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Let's go Team Asano!

Hopefully this also means more HD2D games from Team Asano.

 

[MDSLKTR]

Parasite Eve project but it's Stellar Blade

 

[ByWatterson]

Seems unlikely they'd promote the directors of unsuccessful games...

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Takamasa Shiba was a producer on the Drakengard games so Danjin44 maybe something is about to happen. Yosuke Saito is on the list too, so perhaps we'll be getting another big Yoko Taro game soon, right?!

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Tough news for REBIRTHBIS A FAILURE crowd.

Good to see that Square is shuffling its structure with creatives

 

[Labadal]

"Ctrl + F"

Hiroyuki Ito

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

"Ctrl + F"

Hiroyuki Ito

Company janitor most likely, unless he's working on something related to FF9.

 

[Lokaum D+]

I'm team CBU1 after FF7 Rebirth!

 

[German Hops]

I'm butthurt Tetsuya Takahashi is not on that list.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I'm butthurt Tetsuya Takahashi is not on that list.

It is what it is I guess...

Still, he went and did great things with both Bamco and Nintendo under Monolith Soft.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

I'm butthurt Tetsuya Takahashi is not on that list.

Have you played the Xenoblade games? Sucks he left but at least he's still making bangers!

 

[German Hops]

Sucks he left but at least he's still making bangers!

Not according to Resetera.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Serious lack of diversity in this list.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Hopefully someone can greenlight a remaster of Brave Fencer Musashi. It's a hidden PS1-gem that needs to be in the limelight again. They've re-released so many of their PS1 classics but this game just doesn't get any recognition at all. Same with Xenogears and Parasite Eve. How fucking hard can it be to port over a PS1-game to current gen? Should take a couple of days tops.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Serious lack of diversity in this list.

Sweet baby inc on suicide watch

 

[JCreasy]

Parasite Eve project but it's Stellar Blade

 

[paolo11]

noob question but since hamaguchi got promoted to officer, does he still direct part 3? I sure hope so.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Source - Gematsu

Square Enix has appointed a number of new executive officers as of April 1, 2024, including Final Fantasy VII Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi, Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida, NieR series producer Yosuke Saito, Team Asano head Tomoya Asano, and more.

The full list of newly appointed executive officers is as follows:

• Takashi Kiryu
• Tomoya Asano
• Tomoyoshi Osaki
• Tsuneto Okuno
• Yoshinori Kitase
• Yosuke Saito
• Ryutaro Sasaki
• Hideaki Sato
• Takamasa Shiba
• Hajime Seki
• Takeshi Nozue
• Naoki Hamaguchi
• Takayuki Hamada
• Kei Hirono
• Katsuyoshi Matsuura
• Atsushi Matsuda
• Yuu Miyake
• Naoki Yoshida

Maybe that is why their bottom line isn't as profitable as they would like.

 

[BennyBlanco]

I'm butthurt Tetsuya Takahashi is not on that list.

Why? He’s way better off at Monolith than the clusterfuck that is modern Squareb

 

[Hudo]

I am just happy that Tetsuya Nomura is not on the list. He has far too much power already.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

noob question but since hamaguchi got promoted to officer, does he still direct part 3? I sure hope so.

I think whoever directs part 3 isn't related to whether their an executive or not. I personally think the director for part 3 will be Nomura or maybe even Kitase.

As long as it's not Motomu Toriyama....