Square Enix Slashes Yearly Net Profit Forecast By 90 Percent

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Fab_GS said:

PureDante said:

Wagram said:

Degausser said:

 Still impressive their posting profits, after FFXIV bombed so very, very hard. The delay of Deus Ex can't help either. Looking at their release list they only released 3 console games this fiscal year.. Kane and Lynch 2, Nier and Front Mission Evolved... hardly inspiring lol.

  I've no idea where they made their money this year tbh, guess the legs of FFXIII will have helped, and a few hits on the DS / PSP.

 It always surprises me that the Japanese publishers can stay in the black, even when they have a relatively poor year, whereas EA can have multiple massive hits and post huges losses :/.

Final Fantasy XI is most likely paying for the bleeding XIV. SE can make a good 100M a year off of XI.

100M a year? what? theres roughly 20~50k people playing XI, if not less. 20k people at 12.95$ (one mule) is $259k, and 50k players at 12.95$ is $647k. Not to mention the server and dev costs for their constant expansions and updates...wtf are you talking about lol

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/281148/page/1

And that's only 2009.

I find that extremely, extremely, extremely hard to believe based off of what I said..I mean, where the f*ck does the rest of the money come from?!