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Forums - Gaming - Yoichi Wada resigns as Square Enix CEO

megaman79 on 26 March 2013

DQ10 is a shit storm and Nintendo better get on the case with that.

Perhaps remaking more classic DQ games for 3ds is a temporary crack fix. Get it? Crack, as in a wall crack, but also as in Dragon Quest is like the drug crack to the Japanese.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

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JGarret on 26 March 2013

Great news.



rccsetzer on 26 March 2013

Now is the time to bring hironobu sakaguchi back.



Hynad on 26 March 2013

About frickin' time!



maverick40 on 26 March 2013

Good riddens, Iwata is next on the chopping block. 



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BaldrSkies on 26 March 2013

This really goes to show, it doesn't matter how popular your company is or how many "megaton" "million seller" game IPs you have.

You can still cock it up big time. You are not too big to fail.

Certain other game companies should take particular note.



ktay95 on 26 March 2013

FF14 would have screwed them up, hopefully ARR brings it back enough so they can make a profit of it for the next 5-10 years. also the dev team on that was huge, hopefully they have time for FFvXIII now and some more great games.

btw why the hate for Lightning Returns?? i thought that was what this whole gen was based on, making a franchise and whoring a trilogy out of it.

and did i really just read that KH is kiddy?? like seriously, the story is 1 twisted, messed up fuckfest that few children could even comprahend



lestatdark on 26 March 2013

Thank goodness he's finally resigning. A couple of years too late in my opinion, though it's always better late than never.

He just had a poor vision for the company as a whole and was stuck in paradigms (pun not intended) that didn't fit the model that Squaresoft and Enix had created in the past. Let's see if S-E can recover from these disastrous years (both financially and in the public's opinion).



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TheLastStarFighter on 26 March 2013

SquareEnix went downhill since he took over. It's amazing he was able to stay on this long.

The MMO model isn't working well, neither is the Massive budget RPG with spinoffs. They should follow a model like Activision with COD, two teams working, releasing one RPG a year. FF one year, a DQ the next. Don't go over-the-top with production values, just make it good. People will buy it anyway. Simplify. We should get 3 rpgs of each series per gen, like we did with NES, SNES, PS1 and PS2.