Great Falcom Interview on Gamasutra

Gamasutra has put up an excellent interview with Toshihiro Kondo, Falcom's president and the producer and director of the upcoming Ys Seven for Vita.

Parts that made me go "yay!"

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Originally Posted by in response to development on Xbox Live and PSN

TK: I can't give you the details, but we have been buying dev equipment from other platform holders, and we are analyzing these platforms right now. First, as you know, we were concentrating on PC games, and now we've moved onto the PSP. We don't want to skip around; we want to concentrate on one thing and do it well. And so we've been doing that with PSP, and now we feel like we could look into other platforms, so we are in the process of doing that right now.

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Originally Posted by in response to mobile development

We're working on Sorcerian for the iPhone and Android platforms. The development is done by another company, but we're overseeing the project; we're watching over it, so it will keep the Falcomism. It should be interesting.

Ys remakes on XBL/PSN please. At least give us the TG-16CD version of Ys 3 on the Virtual Console. Damn.

Cool Interview. Falcom was one of the few small companies that survived the transition to 3D in the 90's. Ys I&II for the TurboCD is still one of my favorite titles.

Yeah, Falcom is one of those companies that's awesome to me because they really embrace they fans and listen to them. After reading the article, it's even cooler to know that the current president was a fan when he joined the company, and worked his way up from the IT dept to become a coder and now leader.