Idea Factory International held their second press event at the Rickhouse bar in San Francisco last week. This was done two days prior to the kickoff of this year’s PlayStation Experience event held only blocks away.
After enjoying some catered food and fancy Hyperdimension Neptunia-themed alcoholic drinks (of which he may have drank one too many) and following their presentation, Zack from RPG Site was quietly shuffled into a not-so-quiet space behind the bar.
There he sat down to interview Idea Factory International President Haru Akenaga and guest-of-honor Masahiro Yamamoto, director of Trillion: God of Destruction and, more notably, Disgaea 4. After some nice pleasantries, we talked about the state of the industry among other topics in this short interview that was conducted through a translator.
Square Enix is shifting its strategy to aggressively pursue multiplatform releases and focus on quality over quantity.
Yup, it's official. FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth didn't sell as much as they expected.
Hopefully the next Nintendo system isn't a potato and it can contribute to FF sales in future as well, in addition to PC releases. If this ensures the long term health for SE and franchises than like FF and KH then I'm all for it.
Please tell me the Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is still coming. I feel like I've been waiting forever for that game.
Another sign that dedicated consoles market is in trouble, while PC seems more and more attractive to big publishers.
Having a good gaming PC and a PS5 myself, given current trend form both Sony and MS I am less and less playing on PS5, waiting for exclusives to release on PC, so I understand the logic behind the new strategy.
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
Sega has released its financial statement for the 2023-24 fiscal year, and profits may be up, but it's mostly not down to video games.
That was a really good read. I've only played Rebirth1 so far by these guys, but still, very fascinating read. I would recommend reading it, even if you aren't a fan per se, pretty cool stuff.