Mad55 said:
Kasz216 said:
Mad55 said:
Aiddon said:
A203D said:
Aiddon said:
I get the feeling that FFXIV's failure is just going to continue to hemorrhage their money. Deus Ex isn't going to save them and I seriously think FFXIII-2 is going to underperform (as well as The 3rd Birthday). Their lack of talent or quality is no longer a secret and probably the only other title they have coming up that I think will perform well at least critically is Tactics Ogre. Other than that I see NOTHING doing well.
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I dont think Deus Ex will save them either, but their doing the right thing which is investing in their western assests. the Tomb Raider reboot looks promising, Deus Ex i think will turn out to be a popular game - like a modern day film noir version of Bioshock. and theres still the western developed Fortress project that could turn out well. and i think they will release a HD collection for FF and Tomb Raider, which might help them a bit in the short run.
so i think the western studios will do well, its the Japanese studios that are causing problems. simply because of the allocation of resources (5 years for 1 game) and for some reason the very poor IPs (Infinite Undiscovery, etc). imo Tactics Ogre is swimming against the tides sadly, because its on PSP, with the PSP2 already announced and its a hardcore game i think.
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I can't see Fortress making back its budget due to its, at best, messy dev cycle (and that's if it ever gets released). And the thing is 90% of the problems are on the SQUARE side of things, not Enix. Say what you will about Dragon Quest and tri-Ace, they've never really changed their attitude of how they do things. Even the Western side of things isn't immune to garbage, look at Kane and Lynch. Deus Ex and TO are the only things I find interesting. Right now FFXIV is STILL bleeding cash and none of Square's other projects look good. At all.
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the company is one now its square enix if its squares fault then its enixes fault.
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Actually... not really.
After the merger they basically kept the square half operating like Square, and the Enix half operating like Enix.
It was the things had to be because Enix was the more successful and valuable of the two despite Square being the bigger name.
That's why Dragon Quest ended up on the Wii. Enix's strategy was always "Develop for the winning consoles."
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regardless their still one company and saying its square fault that this happened like enix does no wrong aint right they merged regarless of how they operate afterwards to me. they both lose and gain money togethor. but hey i dont know alot about what goes on on the inside im just seeing these numbers and it represents their company as a whole.
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So... if in a partenrship buisness, one guy fucks up and spends all the companies money on gambling, while the other guy is successfully bringing in all the money... it's your opinion that it's both their fault?
That's a strange definition of fault. Enix really does have a much better buisness structure. Square would do better to follow it then what they've been doing.
