Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Metacritic - 93

[Qwark]

Farsala said:

Qwark said:

Hopefully these high scores will generate enough fuss that this game will sell well. Square could use a win.

Afaik Square is doing pretty good lately, if not great. A recent article published about the top 300 richest companies in Japan, ie the companies with a lot of wealth and not much debt.

Nintendo topped it at #1. But Namco Bandai was #25 and SE at #38. So top 3 in video games, SE remains. Their strategy has been doing quite well for them it seems.

Sony on the other hand didn't make the top 300.

Sony isnt a gaming company though, gaming is only a part of Sony, its other branches combined are bigger than gaming. Also Sony might sell many consoles but PlayStation has very low profit margins. Something that's not the case for Nintendo. Sony is also a tech company and has always been in a lot of debt, though the last 3 years it ballooned from 20 to over 30 billion.

SE has lost a lot of value around the FFVXI launch. SE also sold it's Western Studios so I can see why they dont have a lot of debt now. Forspoken, Dio(something) Chronicle and Valkery did not sell very well, nor was FFVXI a massive sales succes. So I wonder where they got good results from. On the bright side they won't be acquired anytime soon.