They are not the company they used to be. Now they are a company that needs money urgently to avoid another bankrupcy, mainly because they chose to make 1 or 2 games that cost the same as the rest of the other games they make. They expected mega sales from FFXIII, but it looks like they would not be enough so they now have to delay the game for the west until the 360 port is complete.
SE doesn't have a strategy anymore and they think they can sell games solely on brand names. They went that far that they are bringing cellphone games to PSP, SNES games to the DS and DS games to the Wii. It wouldn't be strange to find out that their next new games will be either remakes like FFV, FFVI, FFVII, FFVIII, FFIV DQVI, DQVII or just direct ports. Direct ports have been done already this gen, we got Front Mission for the DS, FF1 and 2 for the PSP, Chronno Trigger DS, etc. SE funds their main projects with crap like this.
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Bets with Conegamer:
Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.
