However, with the cheaper costs of developing games on CD-based consoles such as the Sega Saturn and the PlayStation, Square decided to develop titles for the latter system. Square was one of the many companies that had planned to develop and publish its games for the Nintendo 64. By late 1994 they had developed a reputation as a producer of high-quality role-playing video games. Square has also made other widely known games such as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, SaGa Frontier, Romancing SaGa, Vagrant Story, Kingdom Hearts (done in collaboration with Disney Interactive), and Super Mario RPG (done under the guidance of Shigeru Miyamoto). With 400,000 copies sold, Final Fantasy spawned multiple sequels over the years and became Square's leading franchise. After releasing several unsuccessful games for the Famicom, Square relocated to Ueno, Tokyo in 1987 and developed a role-playing video game titled Final Fantasy, inspired by Enix's success with a game titled Dragon Quest (later released in North America as Dragon Warrior). Sakaguchi then became a full-time employee as the Director of Planning and Development of the company. In September 1986, Square spun off from Den-Yu-Sha and became an independent company officially named Square Co., Ltd. Despite an initial reluctance to develop for video game consoles, Square entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of Thexder. Square's first two titles were The Death Trap and its sequel Will: The Death Trap II, both designed by part-time employee Hironobu Sakaguchi and released on the NEC PC-8801.
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While at the time, game development was usually conducted by only one programmer, Masafumi Miyamoto believed that it would be more efficient to have graphic designers, programmers and professional story writers working together.
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Square originated in October 1983 as a computer game software division of Den-Yu-Sha, a power line construction company owned by the father of Masafumi Miyamoto, the eventual founder of Square Co Ltd in 1986. 2.2.5 Joint-ventures with Electronic Arts.2 Subsidiaries and related corporations.
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