Square Enix will be powering important games like Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III with the powerful Luminous graphics engine, but they will be doing so under new leadership. The company announced today that Chief Technology Officer Yoshihisa Hashimoto has resigned for personal reasons.

 

Source: http://www.gamnesia.com/news/luminous-engine-lead-quits-square-enix#.U9R4F24pDQ9

Edited July 27, 201411 yr by Hero of Winds

                     no!! Yoshihisa-san!!!  no!!!!  

His roles have already been filled by other staff. FFXV will still use this engine. Changes nothing.

Yay because production was already going so smoothly

That doesn't sound too good. But I hope everything goes well for him and Luminous Engine... 

Edited July 27, 201411 yr by RikuFangirl2008

His roles have already been filled by other staff. FFXV will still use this engine. Changes nothing.

we only can hope.

His roles have already been filled by other staff. FFXV will still use this engine. Changes nothing.

My thoughts exactly. There are most likely too many corporate systems in place for one man leaving to lead to a sort of infrastructure collapse.Rewording that, the infrastructure of the team(s) working on Luminous is likely too solid to fail.

Edited July 27, 201411 yr by Andrew Rowland

It's not like they're already totally behind on schedule.