Nihon Keizai Shimbun
"GiFTPiA" was announced in early 2002 under the development of Skip Ltd. and the direction of former Square employee Kenichi Nishi. Game designer Shigeru Miyamoto signed on as one of the game's producers. According to the Japanese newspaper "Nihon Keizai Shimbun", Nintendo provided half of the game's ¥500 million budget.