Square Enix Building U.S. Studio - Looking for 360 Developers

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xlost7 on 17 November 2008

I expect we see a lot of western and Japanese RPG's now. A mix of both, considering if The Last Remnant does well.

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Riachu said:

I think 1 million WW would be fine for SOTLH since at most they only spent a little more than half of what FFXIII probably costs. Besides, even if it doesn't make the amount of money they want it to, then they could just get a PS3 port made.

It could return the investment, and even make a little profit if those numbers come true, but throwing a multiplatform choice that would bring 1.5 or double the amount of sales for making it exclusive to the Xbox360 and 3 months to a year later figure if they need a PS3 version??? i don't buy that...

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Strategyking92 on 17 November 2008

gebx said:

DMeisterJ said:
Reaching much?

Why would you say "SE abandoning the PS3?"

That's called flame-bait gebx.

Didn't you just come back from banning? Have you learned nothing?

Stop derailing threads.

Square Enix is creating an U.S. studio to develop Wii and 360 games.. what would you call that?

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OT: Hopfully this means a western style robot game.... too many japanese style ones.

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xlost7 on 17 November 2008

@Soriku

Same here bro && I expect them to do co-development with western developers also. Like BioWare and etc.
It's highly possible with this new Square Enix studio in the U.S.

I just hope things work well for them. I since the Japanese market is changing dramatically and the U.S. market is gradually taking over. We are seeing new things with the American market than the Japanese market.

The point I'm trying to make is with Japanese losing some touch in development this gives some Japanese developers like Square Enix to experience some firepower development of the likes of America developers.

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Riachu on 17 November 2008

Soriku said:

xlost7 said:
I expect we see a lot of western and Japanese RPG's now. A mix of both, considering if The Last Remnant does well.

Something like TLR is what I was thinking they would make. TLR looks awesome so it'd be nice if they made TLR-esque games.

It would be nice to see this new S-E US division to make Japanese-esque RPGs with Western flavor like TLR

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Kasz216 on 17 November 2008

Pristine20 said:

gebx said:
@ Skiiuk and Pristine

A former Playstation exclusive third party developer is building a new studio that will only (for the time being) on the 360 and Wii.

I'm not spinning things here, this is a great coup for the Wii/360 and a blow to the PS3.

The thing is, when S-E was exclusive to ps2, I don't think they were necessarily paid by sony. many devs were exclusive by choice because they could focus their best on only one platform and make very good sales. Sony themselves could never stop shouting that they didn't pay for exclusives. I don't know what their PR was like during the ps1 gen because I didn't listen to PR back then.

This gen, the gap between 360 and ps3 is not enough to justify any 360-only release from a third party that isn't also multiplat to PC. I could understand the wii exclusives but the 360 ones frankly don't make sense. Perhaps they will in the future when these S-E games in question are made by americans for americans because the ps3 has a miserable 17% market share in NA.

Nah, not back then, though the fact that the PS2 was the only healthy console and Sony owned part of square-Enix didn't hurt things.

The "payoffs" occured during the PS1 era during FF7, in going PS1 over Sega Saturn or Multi-platform by use of money and the promise to market Final Fantasy in the west at the head of massive hundred million dollar advertising campaigns... and to take up all the risk by publishing it in the west.

And when "The Spirits Within" crashed and Square needed an influx of capital before enix would agree to merge with the troubled company.

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ROBOTECHHEAVEN on 17 November 2008

cool, nice more games for the 360 and wii.

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Kasz216 said:

Pristine20 said:

gebx said:
@ Skiiuk and Pristine

A former Playstation exclusive third party developer is building a new studio that will only (for the time being) on the 360 and Wii.

I'm not spinning things here, this is a great coup for the Wii/360 and a blow to the PS3.

The thing is, when S-E was exclusive to ps2, I don't think they were necessarily paid by sony. many devs were exclusive by choice because they could focus their best on only one platform and make very good sales. Sony themselves could never stop shouting that they didn't pay for exclusives. I don't know what their PR was like during the ps1 gen because I didn't listen to PR back then.

This gen, the gap between 360 and ps3 is not enough to justify any 360-only release from a third party that isn't also multiplat to PC. I could understand the wii exclusives but the 360 ones frankly don't make sense. Perhaps they will in the future when these S-E games in question are made by americans for americans because the ps3 has a miserable 17% market share in NA.

Nah, not back then, though the fact that the PS2 was the only healthy console and Sony owned part of square-Enix didn't hurt things.

The "payoffs" occured during the PS1 era during FF7, in going PS1 over Sega Saturn or Multi-platform by use of money and the promise to market Final Fantasy in the west at the head of massive hundred million dollar advertising campaigns... and to take up all the risk by publishing it in the west.

And when "The Spirits Within" crashed and Square needed an influx of capital before enix would agree to merge with the troubled company.

I remember that time, Square definetly didn't want to go with the N64 because of the cartridges, and they had 2 choices, the really phreaking hard to develop Saturn (if you think the PS3 is hard to develop for, check the Saturn specs) but with gaming experience because it was by Sega, the ones that put Nintendo in check with the Megadrive, or the Playstation, with a better 3d engine than Saturn, better sound, but a rookie company just starting with no experience in the gaming department, the choice was easy once Sony presented its plan to Square, exclusivity deal, co-publishing and marketing in the west (more money for them), and they got the game, it turned out massively great, FFVII brought the series into the mainstream and is the most succesful of the main series...

The difference between that deal and now is that they didn't invented stories, they were straight...