A203D said:
Hes not running the company into the ground, SE are making profit, granted their not making $1 billion a game like COD; but thats not Wada's fault. thats the fault of the developers who had 5 years to make a game, a budget of $70 million, excellent marketing (rumoured to have been paid for by Microsoft) and still failed in the eyes of fans and reviewers. it was Sakaguchi who bankrupted the company, and that was because he wasnt a buisness man like Wada. when has the company ever faced bankrupcy with Wada? never, hes not reponsible for the quality of the games. and i think SE would disagree that the 1.77 mil sales on the 360 were a failure. without Japans sales the PS3 sales would be about the same as the 360s. and Wada's 'managment' seems to have resulted in the massively popular Dragon Quest 9. so its pretty obvious hes not responsible for the quality of that game; since hes not a game designer. it is the developers who are responsible for the quality of games. and Wada's given Kitase and Toriyama extremely high production levels, $70 mil for FF13, SE's biggest marketing campagain, bigger than FF7s or FF10s, very rapid localisation, multiplatform release; and the game still failed in the eyes of reviewers and fans. |
Isn't this the problem though? I personally feel Wada should take a more step back from game development and just okay budgets. On a side note I disagree with Dragon Quest 9's statement. I feel that was more of Hori and dealings with Nintendo than Wada. I mean if it was up to Wada Dragon Quest 1-6 + 9 would have been re-released on IOS platforms by now and maybe even the PSP. Dragon Quest 10 would be multiplatform on everything that's a console.