Gaming industry veteran Shuhei Yoshida recently talked about his time at Sony and how his former boss ‘schmoozed’ SquareSoft to get Final Fantasy and all their franchises from Nintendo to PlayStation.
The former PlayStation boss had quite a lot to share in the interview, but one part, in particular, caught some attention on how Sony managed to nab the JRPG giants:
“Our team–my boss was a schmoozer. He’d come from Sony Music. He hung out a lot with the executives from Squaresoft, throwing parties at his apartment. Eventually we were able to get Squaresoft to commit to the PlayStation. They brought all their franchises from Nintendo to the PlayStation. Enix – at the time it was a separate company – saw them move to the PlayStation and decided to bring over Dragon Quest as well. They always wanted to release Dragon Quest on the console with the largest installed base.”
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