The Slow, Excruciating Death Of Final Fantasy

[Kresnik]

BasilZero said:

I disagree, I dont think its a sign of financial trouble, I think its smart for them to be investing early on a platform that seems to be quite popular. Pretty sure a decent amount of digital copies are sold of the ports and the flash games. They can be designed for cheap and be sold at the expensive rate they are currently selling the game.

FFTactics War of the Lions - which I was planning to get for my iphone....is like $15 D:.

But I do admit their actions on the console side will and is hurting them but it'll probably be a long time from now (unless they make FFXVI a online game as well and make more sequels) before they start showing signs that THQ did.

I think there's definitely a bit of that mixed in there too.  I just think - for example, if you read Wada's comments here, he talks about the knock-on effect of FF XIV's failure on the development of other HD titles.  If there are fewer titles being developed on their Japanese side, that's less money they're making (while FF XIV drains even more resources to fix).  If they're spending all this money on that game and getting little to nothing in return, they're going to need to prop themselves up somehow - and that's where the iOS games come in.

At least, that's how I saw things.