Matsuda stepping down as Sqenix President and CEO

[Midareyukki]

In most large japanese game companies it's not a developer or game director who ends up being a CEO. This is why Nintendo didn't pick Miyamoto or Takahashi to be the CEO after Iwata. It'd be a waste of their skillset that is more valuable if they can supervise or be directly involved with teams.

Maybe. I don't think Kitase's doing anything lately xD

But either way. I'm not saying that they should go for the other devs. I didn't mention Saito and Yoshida for a reason. I know very, very well that just because you're good at being a dev, it doesn't mean you can run a company, even if you're on the board. That was never my intention.

What concerned me is his experience with the company. The others don't have as much experience in the corporate side of things, but they know the company the longest. Meanwhile from what I see, Kiryu's experience has been the complete opposite: lots of corporate-side experience but few years with the company.

I just don't want to have the same as early last decade where Square Enix had almost zero idea how to approach their series and made really dumb questionable choices. But it's too early to tell, and it's not fair on Kiryu to judge him by his cover. Just expressing concern about how well he knows the company he's in and how much he knows about the videogame industry. Especially when more and more we've seen the industry care far too much about making a quick buck than its employees or having a product worth buying.

Or you know... the NFT plot.

Edit: nevermind, Kitase stopped being "Special Thanks" on the credits and is the Producer of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth xD