Square released 15 games with an 80+ metascore during the 7th generation.

[RenCutypoison]

BMaker11 said:

RenCutypoison said:

Games	Metascore	New IP ?
FF XIV 2,0	83
Tomb Raider	87	reboot
Hitman Absolution	83
Sleeping Dogs	83	yes
Deus Ex Human Revolution	90
Lara Croft and the guardian of Light	85
Kingdom hearts Birth by Sleep	82
Final Fantasy XIII	83
Just Cause 2	84
Dragon Quest : Wars	83
FFTA 2	80
TWEWY	88	yes
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: MLaaK	80
FFXII : RW	81
FFT : War of the Lions	88
Total	15 games	2 new IPs + 1 reboot
	out of 36 published games according to Wright.	60 points over 80
	average 84 metascore

But screw them, they did FFXIII, HD remakes and mobile games.

Discuss.

FFXIV had to be released twice to get things right.

BBS and TWEWY: I personally think Nomura has the hand of Midas, so SE gets a pass when he's at the helm

You really gonna give SE the credit for those Eidos/Crystal Dynamics games?

That just leaves FFXIII and a bunch of handhelds and WiiWare games. As a DS/3DS/PSP owner, sure SE is great. As a console owner, when they're the ones sticking to their bread and butter (aka SE making console JRPGS, not Eidos making Tomb Raider and Hitman), SE has been lacking.

Yes. They owned Eidos when all this happened. Remember the shit Tomb Raider had become before SE bought them. I'm not saying they are 100% responsible for this, just that this is weirdly coincidental.

As a console owner : Handelds not consoles confirmed.

They are loved for making japanese RPGs. Japanese prefer handelds. They also happen to have different divisions as far as handelds and homeconsole developpment are concerned. Which means that FFXIV chaos had no influence on handelds games. Which is why for the 7th gen SE's handelds games were better than homeconsole ones.