Talk:Hironobu Sakaguchi

Contradictions?
There is some information here which conflicts with information in the Squaresoft article, in particular the information regarding the name of the company. The Squaresoft article states that the current name of the company is Square Enix, but this one says it is Square USA, Inc. Which is it? One or the other or both need to be changed with the accurate information. Other than that, though, the article looks good. By the way, 192.246.40.32, I still wish you'd register. It's cumbersome to refer to you as your IP address... ;-) &mdash; Frecklefoot 14:21 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)


 * This information looks like it was taken from some other source. Possible copyright infringement? - Kricxjo 22:29, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)

NPOV?
What evidence is there to substantiate that Spirits Within failed due to "public apathy by the media"? I seem to think that it didn't do so well simply because lots of people thought it was a bad movie. Thunderbunny 08:44, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Removed. Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 20:07, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

stuff
What follows is copied from bungie.net; perhaps it should be included:

Final Fantasy Maven Moves to Next Gen Xbox Gaming legend Hironobu Sakaguchi (responsible for a few games you may have heard of called Final Fantasy) has announced that his Mistwalker Game Studio will create and develop role-playing games exclusively for what's finally been revealed as "the next-generation Xbox video game platform." Sounds awesome! Wonder if Bungie will make anything for it? Mr. Sakaguchi's company has committed to creating two exclusive RPG titles to be published by Microsoft Game Studios. Martschink

Sprite in Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Mentionable? 16Bit generation would love to see that here :P Mogguh (talk) 02:31, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Edits
Ok, as a newbie, I am a little unsure of how some of this goes.


 * The Square USA vs Square Enix vs Square (etc.) is due to Square having several different names at different times, and Square USA was an offshoot that Hironobu was CEO (or whatever) of.
 * I had registered, but did not realize I was not logged in. My bad.
 * I did not write the top part of the article, but I read through it and it all jived with what I remember.

Question

Yes, I copied the last section from another site. Should I take it down and ask their permission, or can I leave it up while awaiting their response?

Final Fantasy XII
I haven`t played the game, but i check over and over again and i`m almost sure Sakaguchi-sama didn`t work on FF XII, so i think it should be removed from the list even though every Final Fantasy is his legacy. What do you think? Zidane tribal 02:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * He appears in the credits in the "Special Thanks" section... I'm not sure if that counts. Kariteh 10:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

The only reason he appears in the FFXII special thanks is because he is the creator of the FF concept and because he was asked to give advice when they were making FFXII.In a FFXII conference once, he was seen with the FFXII creators and when they asked why the answer was because they asked him for advice in making FFXII.Overall, he is not involved in FFXII.His involvement stopped with FFX-2. User:MorgothErmis 1.12,6 September 2007 (GMT+2) —Preceding unsigned comment added by MorgothErmis (talk • contribs) 22:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

His nickname
Someone should re-add his nickname, "the Gooch". Apparently it's a controversial bit of information. --156.34.72.13 13:40, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Let's adjust the list of games Hironobu is involved with
Currently it shows a list of the game he's worked on, but doesn't show what his role is. His most frequent roles are director, producer, and executive producer I think. Although I believe also has frequent contributions to the storyline, although I'm not sure how often he can actually be credited as "scenario writer".

I would like to have this updated section be similar to the section on the page for Shigeru Miyamoto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_games_created_by_Shigeru_Miyamoto It'll show this information: Title, Year, Director, Producer, Executive Producer, and Notes. Also, it may be possible to also add columns for "Game Design" or "Scenario Writer", but I'm not sure how often he does that job.

I am willing to contribute to this, if somebody can set up the tables. Please reply to this message. What do you think? Dragonblades (talk) 03:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it's a good idea. I've created the table at the bottom of the list and placed the two first entries (the table should probably go from chronological order, unlike the current list which is reversed). Think you can go on from there? Kariteh (talk) 07:51, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the table! I'm working on this, starting with the Mistwalker games. I'm using sources from Imdb.com, Wikipedia.org, and Gamefaqs.com, although there are other sources that I haven't tried yet, such as Mobygames.com also. Anyways, I don't trust all of the information from these sources. This is because Hironobu is being listed as having so many jobs for a game and also being listed as doing jobs I didn't think he did. Here's what I have so far...


 * Title Year Console Jobs


 * Blue Dragon 2			?	Xbox 360?	?


 * Cry On				?	Xbox 360	Producer


 * Away Shuffle Dungeon		2008	DS		Scenario Writer


 * Blue Dragon Plus		2008	DS		?


 * Lost Odyssey			2007	Xbox 360	Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Game Design, Scenario Writer


 * ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat	2007	DS		Director, Producer, Executive Producer


 * Blue Dragon			2006	Xbox 360	Director, Producer, Game Design, Scenario Writer


 * Those are all the Mistwalker games made or in development, and showing the total jobs he's been shown as doing. I don't know how accurate that is! Ideally somebody could just post the jobs from the game manual, which would be accurate. What should I do next? Maybe I should skip the Mistwalker games for now and start with the older games? Dragonblades (talk) 22:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Dunno... There are some manuals at Replacement Docs but the credits aren't in them (not in Blue Dragon's and Lost Odyssey's manuals at least). Kariteh (talk) 07:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

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iPhone game involvment
Someone may want to add this to the article. http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/04/final-fantasy-chrono-trigger-creator-working-on-an-iphone-proje/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.220.50.223 (talk) 10:02, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

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out of order
''His final role as game producer was for Final Fantasy IX. In an interview at the time he described it as his favourite Final Fantasy.[3] He later went on to serve more as an executive producer of the series, as well as many of Square's other games, including Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve and Kingdom Hearts.''

He did a thing in 2000. Then, later, he did a thing in 1998. It kinda looks like someone wrote that to make sense, and someone else came along and stuck a couple of their favorite games in it without looking at the whole paragraph. 67.110.213.167 (talk) 06:06, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon Producer ?
As far as I know Sakaguchi wasn't the Producer in either of them. LO Producer should be Hiroshi Kawai while I dont't know who ist Blue Dragon's. Also I'm pretty sure Sakaguchi confirmed this again (that he was neither Producer nor Director in both LO and BD) when it was announced that he is TLS Director. Can anyone else confirm this ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.217.12.226 (talk) 23:00, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Adoption
Is there a source for this somewhere? "Tiyaku Rotania" is not a Japanese name, and Googling it only pulls up quotes from this article or translations. It's also not mentioned at all on the Japanese page. --122.29.97.60 (talk) 12:00, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * If that's the case, I'll remove it until a citation appears. --68.123.158.30 (talk) 06:42, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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"Early years" section
Hello all,

The last sentence of the "Early years" section under the "Biography" heading has what seems to be a poor source (reference 3, specifically). It's a link to someone's blog that does not itself seem to cite any other sources. I'd fix it but I'm not sure where else online you could find early biographical information about the man. Wasn't sure if I should remove it so I have left it for now, maybe the blog is more reliable than I know.

Thanks. --Surferman155 (talk) 03:07, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Was he born in Hitachi or Hitachinaka?
Infobox says Hitachinaka, but article says Hitachi. These are two different cities in Ibaraki prefecture. Which is it? 169.234.235.88 (talk) 20:31, 20 July 2024 (UTC)