With the due respect, I hope he stays away from Final Fantasy. He's done a lot with the XIII saga, for the good and the bad, and even if I like that saga -and I do, specially XIII-2- even I can see that his games harmed the Final Fantasy name. He wasn't alone at that, but he was at the helm of that ship.
Personally I think we need more guys like Tabata (I don't know if his games will fail, but at least he looks like a sincere, no god complex, grounded guy) and less like Torimaya and Nomura.
Personal opinion.