Yoshi-P's Reputation As 'The MMO Guy' Made Final Fantasy 16 Difficult

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The blitz for Final Fantasy 16 has been heating up as Square Enix ramps up activities before the big name RPG launches in just a month's time. Final Fantasy is an event release in video game and it'll be the debut of the series on the PlayStation 5 so it's understandable. Meanwhile, its producers recently told TheGamer about the challenges involved with the game, especially as Naoki Yoshida (affectionately known as Yoshi-P) made his name with a Final Fantasy that's very different to the main series.

Yoshi-P is the producer on the upcoming Final Fantasy 16, which we have previewed here at TheGamer, and has recently been talking up his game, as can be expected, but also revealing certain difficulties involved. Besides having to contend with the fact that we're now on the sixteenth numbered entry, which apparently causes the marketing team problems, there's also the matter of the producer's reputation. Yoshida's renown among FF fans has been earned through his intervention on Final Fantasy 14, which is an ongoing MMO.

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Speaking to our Lead Guides Editor (and one of our resident Final Fantasy experts) Meg Pelliccio, were producer Naoki Yoshida, art director Hiroshi Minagawa, and localisation lead Michael Christopher Koji Fox, who revealed that Yoshida's involvement with Final Fantasy 14 has been a stumbling block when it comes to getting the word out about Final Fantasy 16.

"The biggest thing that it's hampered is the promotion of the game moving forward, because with 14 being there and everyone having focus on that, that trying to promote 16, everyone wants to bring it back to 14," Koji Fox told TheGamer. "Because people have this strong image of Yoshida as the 14 guy."

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