http://n4g.com/events_e32008/News-169708.aspx

"According to Bloomberg, Square-Enix stocks are down 20% after the FFXIII 360 announcement. Is this a typo. How can stock fall that fast. Or is something going on over at Square-Enix Japan as speculated by Kotaku?Note that this is updated once everyday. So it could be talking about yesterday. But Japan is one day ahead of USA?Note that the -20 is not 20 Yen. Bloomberg is american!!"

Any ideas why? Surely going multiplatform will result in increased sales?

Maybe stock holders suspect Square did this because they're in financial trouble? I really don't know, I know shit about economy.

Yeah, strange, should have the opposite effect, unless them shareholders don't like money. :p

Propably because they think square enix has spent so much money on the game that they went multi-platform to cover the costs.. so that's a bad sign in the business.. Big expense & no sign of profit..

I suspect that the stock probably fell because people assumed this meant that development costs were higher than expected, and the release date means that Square-Enix will have difficulty meeting their sales projections this year.

Two ideas

1)This is an effect to the struggling SE. Thus, the 360 game
2)It's the Japanese being racist. Seeing FF13 on the PS3 and they see it as a bad thing. Speculation more then anything.

CHANGE TODAY -20.00 -0.64%
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?capId=884137

So it's down 20 Yen or 0.64% (I think)

Haha, wow. I thought it would have the opposite effect.

Quick SE! Announce KH3 for Wii!

 Leave it to the tiger, the walking pumpkin, or the flying monkey to make everyone else understand.

The Tokyo exchange doesn't even open for another hour.