Stagnation how? The Wii is stronger than any system that was out last gen so better graphics, physics, and AI are possible. The growth will not be as rapid as if the 360 or PS3 were the dominant system, but there will still be growth. Even if it does cause stagnation in those few areas that is not stagnation for even the hwole of core gaming. Games are meant to be fun, and a new control scheme or different way of interacting with the environment are just as good at improving fun as better graphics.

I agree with you , Naz, I made only a simply and true statement about Square(soft)Enix. Their business model is favored by cinematic and low development cost because JRPG are exprensive to produce ( PS1 ).

But now there is arinsing a new trend ( Social Trend ) and SE is in a bad position because their console of choice ( PS3 ) has seen sluggish sales and high development cost.

DS and Wii are riding the Social Trend and thanks to their huge and fast increasing userbase ( and low development cost )  third party publishers can not seriously avoid them.

There goes my little card... oh well, hai Bruce!

It's in JPEG format, Soriku.

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Yes, and look what happened. Their "cinematic" games on the PSP haven't even touched the success of their DS games. They realized that, and now their release lists show it better than ever.


True but Crisis Core has done EXTREMELY well in Japan for a PSP game or any game for that matter. It was enough for the PSP to out sell the DS and Wii combined (I'm not kidding) for two weeks. Yes two weeks isn't that long at all, but how often do you see one title that's not Nintendo published or made do that well in Japan right now? Plus the original FF7 did better in America than in Japan, so CC should easily break 1.5 million, probably 2- 3 million WW.

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 Final Fantasy 7 was what, 10 years ago. The audience has dropped considerably since then. You also forget that Sony was launching the PSP slims then. Crisis Core was a helping factor but to say that it was solely responsible for the sales increase is inaccurate. I suspect Crisis Core won't be as much of a hit here as it was in Japan.

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Final Fantasy 7 was what, 10 years ago. The audience has dropped considerably since then. You also forget that Sony was launching the PSP slims then. Crisis Core was a helping factor but to say that it was solely responsible for the sales increase is inaccurate. I suspect Crisis Core won't be as much of a hit here as it was in Japan.


I wouldn't be too sure about that. If anything, its popularity has risen since. Some gamers have dropped FF7 as a game they like, but many more have come into the game at the same time. CC is a very highly anticipated title for the PSP and many people in the US have been waiting on it since launch.

The popularity of FFVII certainly isn't what it used to be, and from what I have played of the downloaded import on my hacked PSP I'm not very happy with Crisis Core.   However, 1.5 million or so world wide is possible I would say.  Even 2 million isn't impossible.  Still, look at the sales of Crisis Core compared to even their remakes of games on the DS.  DQIV outsold Crisis Core's lifetime Japan sales in 3 weeks. 

Square has 4 million sellers on the DS.  They'll have 5 when FFXII:RW launches in others and 6 when FFIV launches in America.  They don't have a single million seller on the PSP.  Not even close.  Although again Crisis Core will be eventually, but considering how much more expensive it is to develop PSP games than DS games I doubt they make more money on that than even 500K sellers on the DS.