据传，由于下一部主线作品延期，史克威尔艾尼克斯已对《勇者斗恶龙》系列的首席制作人宫崎洋进行了岗位调整。
据彭博社消息，宫崎洋自1992年加盟史克威尔艾尼克斯以来一直执掌该RPG系列，如今他将转战公司手游业务。
消息指出，《尼尔》系列制作人齐藤阳介有望接替宫崎洋，成为《勇者斗恶龙》系列的新任制作人。
首部《勇者斗恶龙》游戏于1986年问世，由已故《龙珠》作者鸟山明操刀美术设计。截至2023年6月，该系列全球总销量已突破8800万份。
在2021年举办的系列诞生35周年直播庆典中，史克威尔艾尼克斯一口气公布了五款新作，其中包括系列第十二部正统续作。
当时，系列创始人堀井雄二透露，《勇者斗恶龙 XII：命运之炎》将在保持回合制战斗系统的基础上做出革新，整体风格更为深沉，并计划全球同步发售。目前最新的主线作品为2017年发行的《勇者斗恶龙 XI：寻觅逝去的时光》。
宫崎洋的此次调动，是史克威尔艾尼克斯为降低对外部资源依赖、聚焦内部AAA级游戏开发所进行的全面组织架构调整的一部分。
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Square Enix has reportedly reassigned top Dragon Quest producer Yu Miyake following delays to the next mainline series entry. Yu Miyake, a director of the board who joined Square Enix in 1992 and had long overseen the RPG franchise, will now lead the Japanese company’s mobile games, according to Bloomberg‘s sources. Nier series producer Yosuke Saito is a strong candidate to replace Miyake as the lead Dragon Quest producer, it’s claimed. The first Dragon Quest game was released in 1986. Featuring artwork by the late Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama, the franchise had sold over 88 million units as of June 2023, according to Square Enix. The company announced five new Dragon Quest titles, including the twelfth main game in the series, during a 35th anniversary livestream in 2021. Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate would introduce some changes to the franchise’s turn-based battle system, be darker in tone and have a simultaneous worldwide release, series creator Yuji Horii said at the time. The most recent mainline series entry was 2017’s Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age. According to Bloomberg, Miyake’s reassignment is part of a wider reshuffle designed to make Square Enix less reliant on external resources as it focuses more on triple-A games developed internally. It recently promoted a new group of creators to the position of executive officers, who carry out decisions made by the board and are responsible for specific parts of the company. They included Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi, and Tomoya Asano, producer of the Octopath Traveller and Bravely Default games.