Ian Fisher writes: The situation Square Enix has found itself in (some titles underpeforming, the Japanese teams struggling on the production side of things) has resulted in a changing of the guard of sorts. Besides Yoichi Wada stepping down and Yosuke Matsuda assuming the position of President, the company is also refocusing on how it approaches games development. Now this likely won’t be a debacle akin to how THQ seemingly changed their company focus every few months before finally going kaput, but it is interesting nonetheless; not only for what sort of impact it could have on titles such as Sleeping Dogs and possibly Tomb Raider, but the industry wide repercussions it could have as well.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.
Square is circling the bowl as far as I'm concerned. Their creativity has become too compromised and they're only more interested in keeping the money coming in rather than telling a story or entertaining players.
We expect so much from SE, I know I do and I am usually left underwhelmed.
So much so that I replay the older games to get the taste out my mouth.
However saying that, I like to think they have a few saving graces eg kh series.
Bottom line I haven't given up on SE and I feel this new gen might bring them round again. Far from a downward spiral I think they have just taken two steps downwards but they can come back. All it takes is one good game.
SE's decisions these days don't make a shred of sense. KH3 is gauranteed to bomb on the XB1, if you want the game to sell and be multiplatform, why not port it to the console with mostly cartoony games that it's gauranteed to sell well on?
Kingdom Hearts should be on Wii-U !