Hironobu's Major Accomplishments

Hironobu Sakaguchi is a 54 year old (Born on 25 November, 1962 in Hitachinaka) Japanese video game designer, director, producer, a former film director and the creator of the Final Fantasy series. He is to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (4 March at 6:30, San Francisco) for his contribution to the world of gaming. He worked for Square (Now called Square Enix after the companies Square and Enix merged together) and is now the founder of Mistwalker, a company founded by him with the backing of Microsoft. Four qualities that showed are creativity, decision making, perseverance and initiative. This is because without these qualities, most of the things that caused Square and Square Enix to
When something went wrong or a problem came that threatened his job he tried as hard as possible to fix it. An example is when Square made mistakes in their choices (Such as making a movie that lost them $120 million) and almost caused them to go bankrupt, Hironobu tried as hard as he could to try and help stop this bankruptcy by releasing more video games to make money or to ask another company (Sony) to help set them back on track again. With his perseverance, he managed to gain more than enough money to put the company back on its legs. This quality applied to Hironobu because his perseverance showed all of the way since his very first video game since he was in Square to create video games and keep trying until the very
An example of this quality of initiative showing in him is when he would come into the company he works for with an idea for a video game. While being in both Square and Mistwalker, his ideas had usually been turned into a game that they normally released. However, in the moment of collapse when the company Square almost went bankrupt because of their failures, Hironobu came into work and told his co-workers and his superiors about his idea for Final Fantasy. His superiors did not believe that creating an RPG (Role Playing Game) would work as people did not play them. However, having been told that he went with three others who believed that it would work and so they worked together and created the first Final Fantasy game. Due to their initiative, their game caused a monstrous hit that made both enough money to turn the game into a series of games and made Square change their thoughts on RPG’s almost instantly when they found out how they made. Initiative was a quality that applied to him because it was due to his initiative that saved the company from losing its chance for a merge with Enix, stopped the company from collapsing from bankruptcy, cause the birth of an internationally known video game series and more. Initiative was also the quality that put him in his position today and without it, there would not have been a company named Square Enix, the world