Final Fantasy XIII-2 for PS3 moved over half a million copies after shipping in Japan last week -- around one-third of the sales the original Final Fantasy XIII saw just two years ago.
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."
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.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
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
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
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.
@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.
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.
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.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
It's the sequel to one of the worst received Final Fantasies of all time, were people really expecting huge sales? If anything this is good news and should give SE an incentive to go the extra mile to make FFXV the best they can make it
It has been a bad spell but not one SE can't come back from. A lot of the complaints i see is about Versus not coming out which shows it's still an highly anticipated game. If the franchise was damaged beyond repair then no one would care for Versus or Type-0. They have the talent but they really messed up this gen.
From what we've seen and heard both Versus and Type-0 do not make the same mistakes that XIII did and they look much better overall.
IMO SE need to make Versus as good as possible and probably seperate it from XIII. Also making it exclusive for it to utilise the PS3 would also be best becausse fixing the FF brand is much more important than a one off payment to make it multiplatform.
its the very first FF game i've skipped, because all my anger from years and years of them destroying the franchise has finally built up to the point of no return.
I will no longer support Square-Enix until a REAL Final Fantasy game is released.
(True FF Fans know what I mean when I say "REAL")
didn't the vita and monster hunter tri released this month?
I'm planning on buying FFXIII-2, but hopefully this will encourage them to focus their efforts on Versus now.