| Kenryoku_Maxis said: 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. 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. |
Wow where to begin here.
1.) Yeah Square needs to focus on other franchies that generate profit, but Final Fantasy is a cash cow, it always has and always will be. Since when did FF not produce a profit with the exception of FFXIV which is their fault.
2.) Uhh Square-Enix didn't spend shit for money on advertising for hardly ANY of those games except for FFXIII. That's why some games have low sales because they do not market. They expect people to buy it because it says Square-Enix on it.
3.) Final Fantasy XIII did not underperform.
4.) I do agree that if Microsoft SE they would die off. If anyone were to buy them out it should be Sony or Nintendo.
