Speaking in a recent interview, president of Yoichi Wada conceded that might make its way into the hands of Western developers in the future.

Initially, when quizzed about other Japanese publishers farming out some of their big franchises like and Dead Rising, Wada was quite coy.

He said: "That is one of the possible paths, but it's not something that we would shift completely over to."

When pushed a bit harder he did concede that the seminal JRPG series might make it into Western hands. He continued: "There is always a possibility that Final Fantasy could be produced with the input of our Western developers, overseen by our Japanese developers."

He was also very optimistic about how their new Western acquisitions would fare in the tough Japanese market. He enthused: "Something like Batman: Arkham Asylum, for example, is something that is very like the Japanese taste in games, in fact it caters very much to the Japanese taste. Arkham Asylum is like the best aspects of Metal Gear solid, but evolved."

Thanks Edge.

By Ewan Aiton