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Tomb Raider Finally Turns Profit, Should be a Lesson for Gaming Industry

According to Crystal Dynamics, Tomb Raider has finally turned a profit. There may be a lesson to be learned by gaming companies form this.

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_QQ_3748d ago

Tomb Raider =100 million dollar budget
Witcher 2 =10million dollar budget and better game
I don't understnd how that is possible.

Devs like CD projekt red prove that you don't need high budgets to be among the best.

LAWSON723748d ago (Edited 3748d ago )

Square Enix needs to learn how to spend money efficiently. I don't know why you have disagrees. I hope people don't think Tomb Raider is leagues better than Witcher 2 because on a technical level it is far from it.

Kurisu3748d ago

I'm glad it made profit because Tomb Raider was a great game. I look forward to see where they take Lara (and her twin pistols!) in the sequel.

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I’m Glad Atlus & SE Changed Dates To Avoid Competing With Shadow Of The Erdtree

Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."

H92d ago

More intelligent than guerilla games

raWfodog1d 14h ago (Edited 1d 14h ago )

Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.

HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.

It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.

VincentVanBro14h ago(Edited 14h ago)

What a word vomit, rambling, turd of an article that simply states the obvious. Classic exputer.

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Yuji Naka guilty of insider trading breaks silence to accuse Square Enix producer of lies

Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.

Profchaos16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

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

solideagle15d ago

can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?

Chocoburger15d ago

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.

carrotcakeag15d ago

@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.

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Top ‘Dragon Quest’ Producer Steps Down in Square Enix Overhaul

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.

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shinoff218320d ago

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.

jznrpg19d ago

Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.