President and CEO of Square Enix Yoichi Wada was recently interviewed by Edge to talk about the future of the company.
One question asks about the set in stone certain style of Japanese development, which some might say has reached its peak with Final Fantasy XIII, and how he thinks these kinds of big-budget, long-in-development Japanese games stand up in the current climate.

“I believe Final Fantasy XIII is going be something special, and that it’s going to be well received by the audience. But whether we are going to continue to internally create this type of game remains to be seen, because I actually feel that the team that was involved with Final Fantasy XIII should next move on to create and generate some ‘next generation’ forms of play.
Internally and externally I feel there’s an expectation of Square Enix to offer something new, and I really think that the Final Fantasy team could create something completely different, but at the moment they’re strictly catering to the particular audience they have now.”

Click the link below to read the rest of the Edge interview with Yoichi Wada.
An Audience With: Yoichi Wada | Edge Online


Edit: Oops i made a mistake and put this in the general FF thread, maybe it should be in the general SE thread?