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Which games did Sakaguchi do, and which did Nomura do? Then you'll have my answer.
Sakaguchi

Final Fantasy I-VI, IX, X, Spirits Within
Producer and director

assistant scenario writer on FFVII

Nomura
FFVII, FFVIII, FFX-2, Kingdom Hearts, Advent Children
Producer, character designer and Director.

FFX
Character Designer
Some of those credits are a little off. To my knowledge, Sakaguchi was only the producer and director of FFI-V and Spirits Within. He was only the producer for FFVI and FFIX (with a original concept writing credit) and had no real involvement at all in FFX.

Also, Nomura was only a character designer for FFVII, FFVIII, FFX-2 beyond having a writing credit in FFVII (he worked on the original concept with Sakaguchi, with only the vague concepts within it making it into the final script).

Most of these can be found on www.mobygames.com. For some reason they only list credits for the Advance versions of FFIV-VI though, so I'll have to track down another source for those games (those only other game credit site I could find was in Japanese).
Nomura was the lead director on X-2, I remember seeing the credits for the japanese version and his name was definitely on there. Also FFVIII was also his baby, after the success of FFVII square gave him free reign to see what he could do... then revoked it when the game was a washout in japan.

hence why it wasn't until after sakaguchi left that he took over directorial and producing duties for several of squares projects.

and sakaguchi was the director and producer for FFX. it was his name on the in-game credits. But you are right about my mistake on FFVI, he did write and produce, but it was Kitase (nomura's current right hand man) who directed.