You may be wondering, why do those PS3/360 numbers look so small? It is because they are.

As much as I wanted to credit Square Enix with publishing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to help their asses out, I only gave them the Japanese sales they deserve credit for. Wii numbers are a major embarrassment. SE got 75% of those sales on the Gamecube last gen with only one game.

Damage Control Man #1 would say, "Well, Japan has had a major handheld focus this gen. Square Enix is no different. Thier DS/PSP sales surely make up for their console decline!"

Wrong.

Compared to last gen, their presence on consoles has dropped 66% in terms of software sales. Lucky for the company, the ENIX side of things pulled much more weight than the Square side. Without Dragon Quest, minus 13 million units (DS). Nothing is cool about that.

Please say Square rather than Square Enix -- they're at completely opposite poles for this generation.

I know you mentioned it in your post, but the title gives completely the wrong idea, :O.

interesting but we are in the 3rd year this gen and the PS2 was 7 years 

wait until 2014 then make that post and see what they results are. Not fair judging the preformance in 3 years compared to 7 years. 

Meh the quality of their games dropped a lot so it was to be expected... but they did gave me Chaos Rings for the iphone which is the best jrpg this gen..

Wait what?

Only 1.85m for Wii?

And no million sellers?

They deserved it though, they put as much efford in Wii as Data Desing Interactive did, and that's saying something.

Of course they gave DS a port of the best game ever created, making them rule, then again, Dream Team made that game, so it doesn't count

Wii ~1.85m (LOL)

Fail. Need DQX.

This thread seems more of the  " they didn't support the Wii" bullshit again. Blame the DS which has taken the major games in Japan. They have released one major FF game in the consoles while the PS2 enjoyed a couple. They have't release any DQ games on the consoles yet. We are comparing a full LTD of support to just acouple years. I am sure the PS3 and 360 numbers will increase.

I wasn't saying Fail to Savior. I said to SE. Their Wii 'games' are a constant failure, even FF. Actually, I agree with the big LOL, it deserves.

Considering that the Wii has over 50% of the market and that the Wii has so far not received any large support from SE, as opposed to the PS3 and Xbox360, you can't really say it's "bull shit". Because it ain't. Not a single good game on Wii from them.

By the logic of your DS comment, FF13 and other games should have gone to either DS or PSP. But landed on the HD consoles. Previous gen, SE had a final fantasy out within one year of the release of PS2 and had released another 3-4 games in the next 2 years (Kingdom Hearts, Star Ocean, Unlimited Saga, can't remember the last one) so overall a good flow of good games for the market leader.

Today we see that SE basically shafted the Wii and it's hurting them financially and and image-wise. Especially if the best two games they had to offer so far in Japan were two dragon quest spin offs where one is a first person slasher and the other is a card-based rpg game with graphics from the ps2 era.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yk_WEwbnhE

For me it's a blatant sign of wasted potential on SE's side. 

I prefer to think it is an evil scheme run by obscure CEOs to destroy the Wee. This makes a better movie.