Xbox Japan's new design partners, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Yoshiki Okamoto, not to mention their respective development teams, will be given a free reign in creating original and exciting new titles for the next-generation of the Xbox console, according to Microsoft Game Studios general manager Shane Kim. "We always give our partners almost all of the license that they need. We don't want to tell any of our partners what kind of game they should be making," he commented, adding, by way of example, that Mizuguchi has "a great idea for a title, we love it, we want to get behind him, and I'm confident that it's going to be successful for us both in Japan and outside." Kim also conceded that the deals with the respective developers were not exclusive, but that for them to commit to the new platform at all was a major step-forward.
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