Square-Enix Troubles

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

epicberserk said:

We all aware by now how square-enix was down in profits from bad reviews and low sales of mind jack and also the final fantasy 14 mmo that bombed  that lead to cancel of several ips and also the exclusive they were working on for microsoft gun loco so  .........

My reason for starting this thread is this would it be better for square if microsoft were to own a majority of stake in square or have a buy out of them ??

 

 

Are you loco in the head boy?  Microsoft owning SquareEnix would be the same as killing them.  The vast majority of their market is in Japan.  If they were forced to only be on XBOX360, that would 1) Cost them more money to develop games and 2) Drop their sales even worse than now.

All SE needs to do is stop focusing on FINAL FANTASY FINAL FANTASY FINAL FANTASY and start focusing on the series that actually produce a profit (Kingdom hearts, Dragon Quest, Chrono).  As well as making new IPs, which tend to get the most sales on the HD consoles.  And this sounds like exactly what they're looking to do, finally.

SE is in this hole now because they spent literally half a billion dollars in advertising games like FFXIII, FFXIV, FFIV DS and FFTactics PSP.  All which underperformed expectations.  They should be focusing on more targetted advertising for Kingdom hearts, making Dragon Quest more popular internationally and making new games.

Also, I doubt SE will even consider talking to Microsoft.  They're making the bulk of their money on DS and Wii (mostly from Kingdom hearts and Dragon Quest).  If anything, your hypothetical question would be better asking if Nintendo would buy them.  And while I never think that would happen, it has more evidence than MS since Nintendo has second party connections with Brownie Brown and Monolith Soft, both of which were once development groups for Square Enix.

epicberserk said:

Galaki said:

MrT-Tar said:

DQX

Too little. Too late.

They failed to ride the Wii wave when they had the chance.

yep missed it by a mile

Even if Dragon Quest X comes out on the eve of Cafe, it'll still most likely sell at least 3-4 Million in just Japan.  Considering Cafe will also play Wii games backwards compadible, there's little problem of that.  But of course, you'll probably see a good 500,000 or more people buy a Wii just for that game.  People bought systems for Dragon Quest VI, VII, VIII and IX.  There's little evidence the trend won't continue for X.