>>718277012
ff16 dev team were shut down when ff16 flopped and yoshitpiss will never direct any single player console game ever and is also not ever going to work on a new ff ever again

Aramaki is director of SEs in house engine and the entire engine development division which works with every creative studio at SE now so is ramping up "luminous engine" for new AAA game development

>>535489293
tango were all fired by Microsoft and they are not making hfr2 since krafton who bought tango are being sued and firing more staff

forspoken director was promoted and luminous engine is being evolved for new AAA square enix games which he is literally director of
Nozue also got promoted to head of CS2 and they are heading up ff17 with Nakazawa

>>718202912
No it didnt, Aramaki was promoted to head of SEs new Engine Development Division following luminous staff being reabsorbed as regular SE
He statsd at CEDEC 2024 he is director of SEs in house engine and in feb 2025 images of the engine show it is luminous engine which they're still doing active development for

the engine development division exists as its entire division that has unilateral input in every creative studio, they created a documentation tool for the engine in feb 2025 to assist in the engines rollout through out the company proper