*Looks at the old-school Nintendo fans* ... They used to say the same thing about Final Fantasy and Sony Playstation.

Wow, remind me to stay on Claude's good side. You've pretty much ruled this thread man. SE is having a down year but they have less releases. I'm pretty certain that they expected DQIX to be released by now to be honest. With both it and FFXIII lagging behind, their sales took a big hit. MS practically gave them a gift in IU. In fact, I'm wondering what MS got in return for letting SE publish their game.

How about not making IU a multi-plat game period, and not accepting money to make it exclusive?  Or not making TLR timed exclusive with no mention of a release date.  That could be a great start to having more sales of these games.  The reality is that multi-platform development is here to stay what, with increased development costs for HD games and the like.  And not making games multi-plat is stupidly stupid.  Why would a company even accept money to make an exclusive or timed exclusive game in this day and age, and especially SE makes me question the head of the company.  Especially for the 360 in Japan where no games move units or consoles, it's a decision solely based off of the lining of their pockets. 

I am just saying, make the games multi-plat.  You'd enjoy better game sales in Japan on PS3 and you'd have the rest of the world to have better 360 sales.  It makes perfect sense.  But these timed exclusives and bought IPs have done nothing for SE aside from waste money and time.  >_>

So please...  blah blah blah

I feel bad for M$. They paid S-E and IU is what they got in return. No Gears level IP this time

@DMJ

Infinite Undiscovery is an MS game. It's their IP. It is part of the reason SE publishing the game came as a big surprise. Square Enix probably made a deal to publish the game because a few of their 2008 releases were pushed back to 2009.

The games moved a couple thousand x360s and S-E probably knew the games were so bad that it was better to take M$ money than wait for sales so they actually made more money this way.

I only wonder if the M$ money went to the company or to Wada.

SquareEnix,please learn the lesson:
Timed exclusives for 360 DESTROYS the latter PS3's sales,there's a bunch of examples right now,but well....you want to suffer it on your own flesh >_>

Japanese SE sales are down a lot, but abroad sales will be much higher than last year I believe. Many of their Japan 2007 titles were released this year in Europe or both Europe and America and more are yet to be published worldwide this year (don´t forget Re: KH: CoM among these). And SE wants to achieve a bigger ratio per year in America and Europe. Now, that doesn´t mean they should lower their Japanese sales, but if you´ve been following SE sales in Japan and worldwide like me you´ll note that one year they have high sales in Japan and low ones abroad and vice versa the next year. That´s due to various reasons, like main DQ and main FF coming one year in Japan and only the next year abroad.

Anyway, SE becomes more and more healthy and has more and more cash to spend year per year and they seem to be in the transition where they get rid of their traditional, overprotective management that was settled after the merger for survival reasons and move to the former wide, creative self of Squaresoft. The least they´ll do is listen to angry gamers and fanboys. What you people doing here is destructive criticism. There´s no sane company out there that caters to angry mobs and fanboys, unless they want their downfall. Squaresoft learned its lesson once, no way they are going to listen to you guys again.

well if you make very few games for wii and literally none for ps3, what do you expect. square should rethink their strategy and at least put their rpgs on ps3 (multiplatform) instead of making them 360 exclusive. and give the wii some love too, it has the highest install base thus far in japan.

thats for releasing big games on a console with that its not even 1/4 of the fourth place :/