Square Enix Building U.S. Studio - Looking for 360 Developers

[Pristine20]

gebx said:

Pristine20 said:
@ gebx

Did u read the news posting about the economic crisis? I think that has more to do with it than anything you mentioned in the OP

That's a good point.

Even though times are going to get tough, Square Enix is still starting a new studio to concetrate on Wii and 360 games.

 

 

What I got from that news posting was this:

1. It's best to have your studios in EU & NA due to the current crisis

2. It's best to focus these games towards the west in general due to sales trends in gaming

3. The above 2 trends would favor the 360 getting any games that aren't multiplatform and possibly the wii due to the 360 2:1 gap over ps3 in NA

4. New games from new studios doesn't equal good games because S-E is the publisher or even the developer as we've seen in current years.

5. Also, S-E has not done well outside the JRPG market and JRPGs are best made in JP.

Reading your posts, you do a good job making it seem like they're jumping ship with the ps3 because it suks or just hasn't sold enough that they just want to make 360 exclusives? that sentiment itself doesn't make sense because multiplat would be the right answer except they were paid the difference of course.

Only time would tell if this move is actually really beneficial or just introduces unforseen losses on the company because they won't have the luxury of the "buy first, ask questions later" approach that gamers use regarding S-E games in the JRPG genre