Square Enix Announces Declining Financial Results but Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Sold Better than Expected

Square Enix announced its financial results for the first nine months of the fiscal year, related to the period between April and December.
Mobile did badly. HD games still lose money. FFXIV is still a solid rock, and Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is the real hero.

[thorstein]

"Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is the real hero."

SP, turned based JRPG. BG3 was GOTY, it's SP (at its core) turned based RPG.

CEOs: players don't want that. "Why aren't we making more money?"

[gold_drake]

haha yea
drahon quest is proof that fans want turn based combat

[Cacabunga]

DQ3 is the second best game i played this year after Stellar Blade

[Zeldafan64]

Got over 250 hours in Dragon Quest III remake. I'll probably put about that much more time into I and II.

[GoodGuy09]

Yes yes yes. Square for some reason still don't see the appeal of turn based despite many games and indies do so well. Really baffles me.

[Shimsok]

Persona 5 and its re-releases, Shin Megamit Tensei V, and Metaphor are all standout examples as well. I don't know what the sales for the latter 2 were, but they were critically-acclaimed. Granted, they were also all released by 1 studio, but you get what I mean. Your examples count as well.

[CrimsonWing69]

You want another sure fire hit? Parasite Eve and Xenogears, oh but you won’t because… well, I’m still trying to figure that out.

[Gamehard]

Xenogears I want more than any other game I can think of. Hell I'd buy it with bare minimum upgrades at this point. I just want the option to play it on current gen hardware.

[Hypertension140]

There's a good chance that it may be added to the ps1 classics catalog on PS5 one day.

[Zeldafan64]

I want Xenogears and the Xenosaga trilogy.

[tay8701]

Parasite eve, man I want another game.

[Alos88]

Zenithia trilogy is a lock at this point

[MeteorPanda]

Revive Vagrants story, make it bloodborn'esque in setting and speech - watch money come in.

ff9 remake. dont bullshit upscale like you did ff8 - that was cruel

[LikAChicken]

I kinda wish they'd remake ff8 properly as well.

[LiViNgLeGaCY]

They're not going to because FFVIII fucking sucks.

[GoodGuy09]

Square I know how to do it. Bring back legend of dragoon, make turn based mainline ff again, keep DQ traditional. Easy money right there.

[Alos88]

Ahh yes, the beloved SE classic Legend of Dragoon

[Gamehard]

Square didn't make Legend of Dragoon lol.

[DivineHand125]

I keep hearing good things about parasite eve. I haven't played the game but I don't understand why Square made any attempts to revive the franchise.

[blackblades]

All the other big Japanese devs are up and square is the only one in decline like some of the big western devs aint that something

[Zeldafan64]

I wouldn't say they're in decline, more like stuck in neutral. The remakes of Dragon Quests I and II and eventually the brand new XII should move them in the right direction.