| vkaraujo said: @Bold Square - Square did 3 lightning games despite the mixed reception. Took them years to make another thing for FFVII and VI or VII never receveid this kind of attention, but lightning for no good reason received 3 games. - They also did the first FFIV (before the realm reborn remake), which had huge issues and was a mess. - FFXV in development since 2006 ( 8 years and we can only hope to see it in 2015), how much money went to the trash in order to change everything (from a XIIIversus on PS3 to a XV on PS4) - And we are still waiting Dragon Quest! - Not to mention it published the very game that made this company go down.. (Murdered: Soul Suspect) That to mention a few. And i don't believe it is necessary to talk about Capcom. |
Yeah, FIV had way too big of budget and did not pay off. On the same note, I doubt Lightning Returns with it's downgraded graphics and reused models made any money.
I see what you're saying and agree with it was mismanagement of IPs, XV not being released in 8 years when that is the game most people were showing interest in and no one was showing interest in XIII. It looks like it will be a decade until it does release, being they still haven't announced an official release date. With how many man hours they have put into that game, I doubt no matter how much it sells it will be financially worth the investment. Especially if they release it before 2016, which there will be no way it will sell better than FF7 due to hardware sales and average game attach rate.
As far as Dragon Quest X goes, even releasing in the US it wouldn't have sold that much. Wii sales were dead and there weren't that many Wii U's in peoples houses in 2010-2012. I would like to see them release it now being there's around 6 million and climbing. This, I would say, was about the only smart move S-E has made. But I Think unless they release it worldwide soon that will have been a waste of an IP as well.
