Did the Xbox 360 indirectly damage the Final Fantasy brand?

[Michael-5]

MARCUSDJACKSON said:

Michael-5 said:

Do you think Square Enix starting making poorer quality JRPG's because of the merge with Enix, or because the departing of Hironobu Sakkaguchi, and other staff a little before it? I think some PS2 JRPG's are still good, but this gen, outside of portables, the quality is good at best, nothing great.

P.S. I didn't even realize I quoted you, you just made a great realistic post which I wanted to comment on. (thanks that means allot)

well i'm not really qualified to answer that because i'm really not familiar with Square like that. 7 and 10 are the only 2 i know, but based on user feedback this gen., i'd go out is a limb and say it's mostly because of the merger, but talent goes without saying really.

if the current teams vision doesn't represent what made the franchise what it was, or what made it great then then it's the team, and from what i can tell, they lack a vision for the franchise, and for its future. 

Well at least this gives room for other newer Japanese developers to grow. Atlus recently has been making some quality games, and Platinum Games came out of nowhere.