Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy who later left Square to start MIstwalker, and work on acclaimed JRPG projects such as Lost Odyssey and The Last Battle, released Terra Battle for smartphones in Japan. When he did, he also promised that once the game hit 2 million downloads, Mistwalker would work on bringing the world of Terra Battle to consoles.

Terra Battle hit 2 million downloads. Unfortunately, it seems the console game hasn’t actually been given any thought yet.

“When we first began planning the Download Starter and setting our goals, I never thought we’d reach two million downloads,” Sakaguchi said to Famitsu (as translated by Gematsu). “Or rather, it was a far away goal. But meeting this feeling, it is expected we keep our promise of ‘starting development on a consumer version,’ but I didn’t think that day would really come. We didn’t actually have anything planned for it, so I’m starting to feel the heat now that it’s happening.”

“We really don’t have any plans right now. I’m in so much trouble now,” he laughed. “Still, however we end up doing it, I want the characters and atmosphere of the game world to be in line with what we’ve done for the smartphone game. I plan on doing a lot of experimenting to see whether we otherwise actually take the game in any new directions. Virtual reality could be an interesting direction to take, as could having some sort of connectivity with next-gen if we could pull that off.”

So, while it seems that he has committed to doing a high end console JRPG, it might be a while before we do end up seeing it. So sure, there is something from him to look forward to. It’s just that no one, not even Sakaguchi himself, quite knows what that is yet.

After teasing the same last week, Famitsu (via NeoGAF) revealed that Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and Mistwalker will be creating Terra Battle, a new free to play mobile RPG. It will be releasing on iOS and Android in Japan in September and will be developed in a way such that players won’t have to engage in micro-transactions to enjoy it.

Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu will also be working on Terra Battles in which he will be composing 20 tracks. Sakaguchi will be serving as Producer on the project and expressed his interest to bring Terra Battle to consoles at some point. He didn’t say which consoles though and when exactly that would happen. For now, we’ll be waiting to see how it fares on mobiles.

Mistwalker’s previous titles include The Last Story, Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon which all released on consoles. What are your thoughts on Terra Battle? Let us know in the comments.