| ookaze said: Japanese talking people, help me there, my japanese is old and rusty.
As for SE, I think that will be their loss if they lose the Wii crowd. They're losing me already, I've lost any interest in FFXIII and all its derivatives. All of this is a mess that doesn't make sense to me. I can't help but feel lots of japanese devs are screwing themselves badly over this gen. I expect the landscape of who is good/bad and who does which kind of games, to be completely changed by the end of this gen. SE puts lots of games on DS, but none are good support (remakes). Only the Enix part does some things decently. I feel SE is going down fast, and I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling that. Just like Mistwalker. For me, the sales of BD+ are just confirmation of what I knew since a long time: they've made themselves irrelevant. Even Level 5 has to be careful. I'm not in fear of my favorite genre becoming irrelevant, because even a SRPG like FE, which is supposed to be niche in the JRPG genre, sold more than most traditional JRPG on other consoles this gen. This just shows that sth is very very wrong. |
That's how much they plan to spend on the projects, not make. FNC is getting twice the money pumped into.
Mistwalker has always been irrelevant, and it became frightingly apparent at ASH's debut. They came out of the gates supporting a console with their largest games that Japan has rejected, and as soon as they stepped into the mainstream territory, where anything can sell - the DS - the Japanese populous ignored their game because they didn't know who they were. Blue Dragon Plus experienced a similar lukewarm reception: it's related to the 360 game that only about 20 people in Japan actually own, and it's a RTS. That's like a double negative. I have no idea what they were thinking with that.
Level 5 won't become irrelevant because of Professor Layton. It's like their most successful original IP, it'll be what they're known for after they stop getting contracted for DQ games.
Square Enix isn't in irrelevance yet because they still have a lot of powerful franchises up their sleeves that they can deal out at any time (Mana, SaGa, Chrono). Their problem is that they hit a stumbling block because they made a lot of poor decisions at the beginning of this generation that they're just now getting around to correcting. I don't know who's godawful idea it was to put several high profile games on the cellphone but at least they're now being ported to the PSP. And multiplat FF13 is at least one step in the right direction, even if both versions are on the wrong consoles.
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