Today XSEED Games reached out with a press release to announce some executive role changes at the top of the mostly Japan-focused publisher.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
- Xbox Wire - Mark your calendars! The Xbox Games Showcase followed by [REDACTED] Direct airs June 9. More info inside.
For a brief moment I thought we might get a whole Direct for Gears 6 - seems like it's COD though!
Saad from eXputer: "After suffering from massive financial hits, Square Enix & Bandai Namco appear to be turning over a new leaf but I'm still unconvinced."
I was talking about games with some Japanese guys here in Japan, and it seems like around here Bandai Namco has a fame of making low-quality games, with the occasional gem.
About Square Enix, I believe they lack the capacity to improve. They should learn with Capcom (although even Capcom still makes some bad mistakes), but I don't think they ever will. They keep chasing whatever is new at the time (blockchain, AI...) to say "we innovate", without considering the public perception and if these things actually improve the games or not. Them releasing too many small games with no advertising also shows a lack of trust in its own products. Even with their biggest games, like turning FF into an action game with XVI and the very divisive plot changes regarding whispers and timelines in VII Remake, shows them trying to attract a new generation of gamers without understanding what made the series so big in the first place.
I don’t know why NOW they decide on this, but I guess later is better than never.
I love Xseed, to me they're like Working Designs. I'd still love to see Xseed try and work getting some of those games Remastered. Dragon Force Remastered, I'd like to see Virtua On and Radiant Silvergun ported to Sony hardware. Valis Remastered, I could go on and on. Saturn and Sega CD had so many great Working Design games. While Xseed is more a localized publisher, Sony might actually do well to acquire them as a localizing publisher to ensure their stuff stays on PlayStation with the purpose of that as well as acquiring their developers that've been doing all their Remasters for them anyway of Uncharted, ICO, and Shadow of the Colossus, well, as well as Ready at Dawn.
As someone that has started Trails of Cold Steel recently after binging out the Trails in the Sky trilogy, I am grateful for Xseed. Now if they'd get on the Crossbell series, I'd be even more happy. Falcom teased a remaster already, so fingers crossed.