PocketGamer (www.pocketgamer.co.uk) has done an interview with Square Enix's producer Hideki Imaizumi and executive producer Yoshinori Kitase on the ongoing preparations for the game that will be coming out in UK.

In this interview, they are given the question "If you'd known the DS was going to be as popular as it is, would you have chosen to make Crisis Core for it instead?" and give the answer "It really wasn't an option to begin with and it wasn't something we regretted later because whereas, yes, there are a lot of DSs out there - but does that mean that our products sell in relation to that?".

If you'd known the DS was going to be as popular as it is, would you have chosen to make Crisis Core for it instead?

The DS was already out at the time we came up with the concept of Crisis Core. It really wasn't an option to begin with and it wasn't something we regretted later because whereas, yes, there are a lot of DSs out there - but does that mean that our products sell in relation to that? That our sales grow with how many DSs or PSPs there are out there?

It's not really the case. How much the product sells really depends on the game itself, who it's targeted to and all sorts of different factors. It's not really always about the hardware. Especially in terms of this game where the demographic was higher teens to young adults as opposed to small children. The PSP seemed closer to that demographic than DS in general. So we feel we really made the right choice.

We'll make a DS game called Brain Age: Final Fantasy for DS [laughs].

StarJet via pocketgamer.co.uk »