Square Enix sales slide 28%

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Killiana1a said:

Seems to me that Square Enix should be focusing less on the Square side and more on the Enix sides.

ActRaiser, SoulBlazer, E.V.O., Terranigma, The 7th Saga, and Ogre Battle were classics for the SNES. They are all worthy of a reboot. My personal choice would be split between Act Raiser (the 1st with the overworld simulation, not the scroller hack and slash ActRaiser 2) and SoulBlazer.

Either let Final Fantasy rest to stir the pot of want or learn from Final Fantasy 12 and 13's mistakes and aim for greatness.

Too much FInal Fantasy, not enough Enix.

Basically this. There are 2 situations that I'd love to see, though alas, I don't think either is likely:

-Enix resplits from Square. This leaves Square alone with gobs of money coming in, and about as equal of gobs going into the next FF game. The company teeters on the brink of bankruptcy at the failure of any mainline FF game. Enix keeps Dragon Quest, and without Wada, can feel free to revive other titles of theirs that don't have the words "Dragon Quest" in it. Since it seems as though Square's execs are making a lot of the higher decisions, I think it is them who are stifling Enix.

-Horii gets fed up with Square-Enix, leaves them. I don't think he can take back the rights to the prior published games, but in Japan, he would have no problem finding another publisher. My guess is that either Sony would buy him outright for the next period of games, or he'd go to Nintendo, who already has a history of working with his games internationally. Removal of the big profitability horse would leave S-E scrambling to cut costs.