Golgotron says, "You and I go way back, don’t we? What has it been now, 25 years? I’ve stood by you through thick and thin, and you know you’re one of my all-time favorites for developing and publishing amazing games, but we haven’t been all that close as of late and I think we should talk."
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.
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.
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."
What a word vomit, rambling, turd of an article that simply states the obvious. Classic exputer.
All Square has to do to turn themselves around is fire all of the programming staff, all of their creative staff, leave the games business, go into the movie business, and farm out the spin off games to decent game developers.
There will be a new tactics advance on the 3ds. Count on it
dq rocket slime 3, joker 2 professional, and dq X are in development. My dq itch is being scratched.......
He bought a PS3 to play FFXIII...but bought it on 360?!? What? I assume he sold his PS3 after he found out it was a multi-plat?
Nobody liked XIII, Square. Ignore that.
Let Nomura make EVERY game. Problem fixed.
Square was great until they lost Sakaguchi. They need to step their game up now that they don't have him making amazing games for them. FF versus XIII looks very promising though.
Shouldn't have to say that he lost me with putting vsXIII on the 360. Buying the PS3 version of XIII then 360. That especially is a double fault. As currently - public anyway - vsXIII needs to be finished on the PS3 *THEN* ported to the 360.
Kojima working on Front Mission could save the franchise, but if its happening they need to talk about it.
@HINDERIZATION:
No, Versus can be on the 360, I just don't want it effecting how its put on the PS3.
To repeat: Finish and release the PS3 version, *THEN* port it over to the 360. Let management figure out how many discs it has to be on, how much extra they're going to have to shell out possibly making compromises, after the dev team have actually finished the fu*king project and offered it at retail. Sell it to the established market in Japan instead of trying to use it to grow a stalled install base.