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I think the cold dark reality is that Nintendo has been terribly effective at stifling third party competition on their platform. Nintendo has actually been too successful on their consoles for too long. I think it is entirely too easy to say if the games are made they will be purchased given what the sales charts show. More to the point the console sells in spite of having these titles.

There is far too much persuading developers to bet heavily on the Wii outside of the fare that sells well on the console. Games for the very young or mini game collections. I think that if your frustrated the only one to blame is Nintendo. They need to get over their needs, and finance some big third party games for their platform. To at least make the point to third party developers that their games can succeed on the platform.

Nintendo should do this for no other reason then history has shown that the winner one generation can be the loser the next. When that happens you really want to have good third party support in play. That is what kicked Nintendo to the curb in the previous two generations. They never made it a point to push for third party developers. Meanwhile Sony and Microsoft made it a point to make third party development a priority for their consoles.



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Chemical said:
Square-Enix: We dont want to earn money, so let's ignore the top selling console in Japan and the rest of the world.

Such genius, makes you wonder why they are losing money?

And to whoever claims that Square-Enix makes graphically driven games, you are a bit wrong. Square-Enix makes CG-driven games. In my opinion they should just quit gaming business and make awesome CG movies. Advent Children was cool.

 

@Bolded- Now that you mention it, there games are CGI impressive over there overall gameplay, but games like dissidia: Final Fantasy and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII says HI.

Otherwise, i'd have to agree if they became a movie team it'd be a bright future for them, even more so if they got Sony Pictures to publish them.



Now might be a good time to point out that Square Enix's highest selling console game this gen is on the Wii.



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they are not ignoring it.

it demographic it's mainly on the HD consoles.



Since I own all three current consoles I really don't care wich console get the games but it sure is funny that they complain about profits when they don't even develop games for the fastest selling console ever.....


Im playing Last Remnant now on 360.. it sure is pretty but it has as a few problems with lag and graphics glitches.

A RPG don't have to have the greatest graphics in the world to be great...



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stof said:
Now might be a good time to point out that Square Enix's highest selling console game this gen is on the Wii.

 

You would hope that with a Dragon Quest in the title



 

Naum said:
Since I own all three current consoles I really don't care wich console get the games but it sure is funny that they complain about profits when they don't even develop games for the fastest selling console ever.....


Im playing Last Remnant now on 360.. it sure is pretty but it has as a few problems with lag and graphics glitches.

A RPG don't have to have the greatest graphics in the world to be great...

 

@Bolded- Yes very true, BUT in these Modern times its Highly recommended for an overall great experience, and only the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are possible of doing such things.



stof said:
Now might be a good time to point out that Square Enix's highest selling console game this gen is on the Wii.

Yeah, a DQ title outsells a Tri-Ace game.....

 

What's the surprise?



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Naum said:
Since I own all three current consoles I really don't care wich console get the games but it sure is funny that they complain about profits when they don't even develop games for the fastest selling console ever.....


Im playing Last Remnant now on 360.. it sure is pretty but it has as a few problems with lag and graphics glitches.

A RPG don't have to have the greatest graphics in the world to be great...

What does it mean?

Last Remnant is good enough for your tastes?..for waht I see it doesn't looks so fun.

 



Star Ocean 4 is made by tri-Ace, not SquareEnix. tri-Ace is a completely independent privately owned company, and it seems they have pretty much become a second party developer for Microsoft this generation.

Versus is made by SquareEnix, runs on the cross-platform White Engine / Crystal Tools, and is thus highly likely to end up on the 360 as well.

As for the Wii, cross-platform 360/PS3/PC/Wii development is not really an option. The Wii hardware just isn't powerful enough. Developers have to make a choice; either develop for the Wii or 360/PS3/PC. They can do both, but that will be twice as expensive. Since the combined software sales of 360/PS3/PC > Wii, it just isn't cost effective to do quality Wii development.