Hiromichi Tanaka is a Japanese video game developer, game producer, game director and game designer.
10 Facts About Hiromichi Tanaka
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Hiromichi Tanaka was Senior Vice President of Software Development at Square Enix and the head of the company's Product Development Division-3.
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In 1983, Tanaka dropped out of Yokohama National University along with Hironobu Sakaguchi to join Square, a newly formed software branch of the Denyuusha Electric Company.
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Hiromichi Tanaka is best known as the former lead developer of Final Fantasy XI, Square's first massively multiplayer online role playing game.
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Hiromichi Tanaka oversaw development of Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV until late 2010.
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Hiromichi Tanaka worked in a prominent role for earlier single-player games including Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3, Xenogears, Threads of Fate, Chrono Cross, and the Nintendo DS version of Final Fantasy III.
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Hiromichi Tanaka worked on the original Famicom version of Final Fantasy III in 1990.
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Three months after its release in 2010, Hiromichi Tanaka was removed from the Final Fantasy XIV team and replaced by Naoki Yoshida.
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At the Vana'diel Fan Festival 2012, an event celebrating Final Fantasy XI's 10th anniversary, Hiromichi Tanaka announced his departure from Square Enix due to health reasons.
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In 2012, Hiromichi Tanaka joined GungHo Online Entertainment as a freelance advisor to the company.