Kitase talks about Action RPGs, is this FFXV's future?

[chionos]

I like the idea of a SE action RPG, but why make it FFXV? SE has had other intellectual properties besides FF in the past, some of them action RPGs. I wonder if Kingdom Hearts would qualify for a Final Fantasy title under SE's current business model.

I would prefer SE do its action RPG thing under a new name and make Final Fantasy XV a bit more traditional.

Precisely. While Sakaguchi always said that it was better to have new characters and a new story and a new world for each new FF, I don't think he meant that FF should become what SE is trying to make it now, a brand with no core identity.