"SquareEnix Quarterly report from last year. I didn't hear them taking money specifically from Dragon Quest, but as past evidence has shown from those reports, they do use their money from their combined company to fund both sides now. So its only logical a portion of the money they just made from their massive DQIX sales has to go into the development and marketing costs of FFXIII, which was going way over deadline."
That's not a bad thing. That's done all the time, even before this gen. I thought you meant they took development money (like what was done with Superman IV).
But the fact that FFXIII even needed that shows how these "grand visions" of HD gaming are way over the line (not that the graphic are a bad things, I mean the cost, time, and focus).
But that's for another thread. The point of this thread is I think that S-E isn't lazy as much as needs a focus adjustment (if they aren't doing it already).
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs
