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Forums - Gaming - Yoichi Wada resigns as Square Enix CEO

ethomaz on 26 March 2013

Great Kaz needs to help Square-Enix... so Square-Enix Sony first-party studio right now.



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KungKras on 26 March 2013

Good. FFVII made him a traitor.



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ryuzaki57 on 26 March 2013
Scisca said:
RareglovE said:

I wonder who's next, is it Crapcom....hmmmmm

I hope the guy responsible for killing Vita support at crapcom gets fired asap. I'm not buying a single crapcom game until they start supporting my favourite console. The money they are losing just from me is growing pretty much every month, it's the only reason I didn't buy games during the RE sale on PSN.

So much this. Companies that accept to be moneyhatted by manufacturers go down, all of them! Capcom should start the Monster Hunter Vita and the RE Vita ASAP instead of clinging to Nintendo systems.



 

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Wagram on 26 March 2013

If that Sony rumor with FFXV is true, this potentially could strengthen relations between the two companies like crazy.



rccsetzer on 26 March 2013
Wagram said:

If that Sony rumor with FFXV is true, this potentially could strengthen relations between the two companies like crazy.


Please be excited.



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ryuzaki57 on 26 March 2013
ishiki said:

ryuzaki57 said:

Look, it says "slow sales of major console titles throughout North America and Europe" so it means the snooping dogs, the Hitman, the Tomb Raider things didn't do as planned. Deus Ex did help tough, but along with FFXIII-2 (Square WAS profitable last year). The point is that their Japanese games can sell well everywhere whereas the Eidos stuff sells in the west but poorly in Japan. So by keeping the Japanese games in Japan (and lowering the output of Japanese studios btw) and betting everything on action/adventure games that have some freakin' competition, they shot themselves in the foot. Of course Bravery or Type-0 alone aren't much, but the whole strategy of separating East and West is to blame.

you completely missed my point. Since those games fell  below expectations theirs something severly wrong with their planning, they sold similar to their competition, Hitman outsold SC:Conviction and any game in the series in it's previous 10 years, Tomb Raider Debuted Higher than both uncharted 1 and 2, and less than 3. Expecting them to magically severly outsell games in their area, and games in the Franchise is incompetent which I guess why wada's out the door.
Would you expect FF15 to sell 11 or 12 million because FF7 sold 10+ years ago? 

Agreed, the douchebag that inflated the budget & target numbers must be fired. The games cost massive amounts for development and promotion/marketing (in which they bought th whole press to get nice metacritic scores) but the sales were good but not outstanding. Result : they stuffed the channels of games whose prices tanked (Tomb Raider is already 40€ on amazon France) and they have to take the loss. They need to be less arrogant and less greedy, keep their budget in check and stop favoring one audience over another (i.e keep a balance between japanese and western games).



 

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Kresnik on 26 March 2013
KungKras said:
Good. FFVII made him a traitor.


Am I missing a joke here, or something?



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ShadowSoldier on 26 March 2013
Kresnik said:
KungKras said:
Good. FFVII made him a traitor.


Am I missing a joke here, or something?


I think he meant FFXIII. Regardless I am loving this news. 



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Nem on 26 March 2013

Maybe this means we might have that FF7 remake we've been asking. Wada was directly opposed to it.

Obviously he didnt need that cash cow on his balance sheet. trololol



dahuman on 26 March 2013

I do find it amusing that SE's western studios can make better games than the home company, that's for sure, usually it's the other way around lol. I don't think much will change though, the corporate world is just another lie, modern days ones are not being run by people who actually know the business but are by accountants these days.