im gunna go out on a limb and say square enix will announce a game at the conference

You just made me remember a Retro studios game that was in the works after they finished the first Metroid Prime. Cant remember the name but it was some sort of adventure game that got canned. I wonder if they might revive it for the Wii

^ raven blade

Agreed, but it's more that they focus on making spin offs and sequals then anything else. They seem to be putting more effort into Kingdom Hearts spin offs rather then the third installment. Not to mention they need to let FF7 die already.

Wow, way to make a complete ass out of yourself by trying to paint an audience of 5-10 million people into simple stereotypes.  Also, the reason Square needed to sell part of its stock to Sony and merge with Enix is because Spirits Within cost them 100 million dollars, and Square isn't big enough to swallow that big of a loss.  A big reason for that is because of Sakaguchi wanting to do it all without motion capture and ran up the budget to a number that they would have a tough time recouping, and because of it Sakaguchi left the company.  I don't know why Uematsu left, or ever heard of the other guy as I have never played the tactics games.  One last thing, Spirits Within released July 11, 2001 in the US, FFX released before that, so Sakaguchi didn't leave during the making of FFX, he left after it was done.

Forgive me for not ignoring the startling correlations between the typical members on this forum who meet the afore mentioned criteria and the ceasless desperate love for anything square-enix. While there are Square-Enix fans of all ages and predispositions, you can't ignore the droves of individuals who are either too young to remember Square as having ever been anything else or those still trying desperately to live in the glory days the PS1 where JRPGs were still something to be marveled at and Squaresoft was still King.

It's funny FFX is considered the last great FF game and yet was the last one worked on by Sakaguchi. Ever since then the franchise and the company haven't been the same. Without Sakaguchi nothing was sacred anymore, sequels and spin-offs of Main Series FF games were now fair game and FF7 was now free pickings for a talent starved company.

Sakaguchi was Final Fantasy, but he was always what killed it with the Spirits Within. If Square-Enix had just left Final Fantasy to rest in peace, they would have at least maintained their integrity and moved on to other things. Now all they do is rape the name sake of Final Fantasy and line their pockets with money from remake after remake after remake after remake. The DQ games get matterial cut out of their Western versions and the special editions of any of Squaresoft's game never see the West going as far back as FF7. With all this adversity towards quality one can only marvel at anyone still being a fan of this trainwreck of a developer.

The only thing their games are good for anymore is knowing enough people will blindly buy them that they can be used as bragging rights against the other consoles that didn't get them.

It's all going to be about Wii music.
It releases in less than a month anyway.


wonder which type of commercial we'll see on the tele.

I think Retro could make a good Kid Icarus game or one of the Zelda dev teams.