It's the high cost of HD game development & the fact that they only put DQ: Swords & A chocobo game on Wii. That FF4 remake should have been on Wii & PS2.

I agree. I think they should port the PSP games on the Wii. That would make them easy money.

I agree with this simple presented idea

if you(se) make games for the high end, but ever smaller market you increase cost and descrease sales. If you think that this will be success of you(se) company then you(se) high on something.

Whats the point of the White Engine running on all major platforms when all your(se) going to do with it is produce a product as no effective difference as just coding the game straight for x platform.

If you(SE) want to make money with this 2-3 million it's time to start making the game purchasable by everyone. If this is what you(se) want consumers to do, to listen to your begging, then you need to beg the less critical and picky market. This market doesn't really exist on the elite side of the market where you(se) only really focus on.

So I laugh at the companies including you(se) for clearly continuing headlong off towards the cliff without ever thinking that's maybe you need to turn directions. If you fall. Then probably it was for the best. Clear out the company gene pool.

I don't expect you to limit your creative vision. I expect you share your creative vision with as many people as possible.

I gotta agree here, what the hell was SE thinking making one big fat(and extremely costly I am sure) project that take forever to make instead of simply doing the next installement of the franchise then doing the stupid spin off after it's released if it sold well. If they did that FF13 would be out already(Wohoo!) and they would have there 3+ million seller and one free developement team instead of no multi million seller and all there team busy.

This is the kind of stupidity that put them in trouble back in the PS1 era with the Spirit Within. This is simply a matter of not putting all your egg in the same bag.

You haven't understood in the slightest. What he said is he hopes people buy the game or he will have to go back to making mini-games. ''I hope people vote with their dollars in February so we can make some more. Otherwise, it’s back to mini-games.''

He is saying that if people don't buy deadly creatures that he will have no choice and will have to go back to making mini games. He didn't say ''buy whatever we throw out'' he is saying ''I hope people buy this game we have worked very hard on and spent a lot of time on or we won't be able to do it again.''

Oh and irstupid very rarely is it a company marketing it as ''WAHH buy our game'' they get asked in an interview how much they need to sell or they get asked how the company is doing. In fact square don't say they need you to buy anything. They say how they previously have taken more risks with games that could sell less but now the market is different and they have to focus on games that are capable of selling more. He's not telling you to buy his games, he is saying that they are going to focus more on known high sellers because they can't afford to try more variety.

Face it, Square-Enix SUCKS

Yes, it's true. SQUARE-ENIX SUCKS

Its basically just Enix with a handful of lingering inconsequential Square staff trying to follow in the footsteps of what Square-Soft once was.

Sakaguchi is gone, the director of FFXII is gone, Nobuo Uematsu is gone, Yoshitaka Amano is gone, more than 75% of the original Square-Soft staff are gone.

If Square-Enix wants to see these sales figures like 2-3M then try making good games and stop with all flashy guady prententious visuals as a substitute for substance.

Stop making remakes of your past glory you'll never be able to truly relive.

Stop making spin-offs and cell-phone games of everything you do.

Stop screwing over the west by not fully localizing your products.

Stop screwing over the west by never releasing the special or expanded editions of your games here.

Stop making every game a visually and thematically shallow copy of FFX.

Stop outsourcing projects to underperforming independent developers like Tri-Ace.

Stop producing games that all look so generically inseperable that "belts", "hot-topic" and "emo" can be used interchangeable to describe any Square-Enix title.

Stop using the same faces and models for every game, we can only stand Tidus and Yuna being the main characters of every game so much.

I hope FFXIII is straw that breaks the camels back and forces Square-Enix to give up on Final Fantasy. Maybe they should try making their own thing instead of riding the dead coat tails of a single franchise.

The other thing is the PSP is virtually a dead system software wise in the West. I'd be willing to bet for instance Kingdom Hearts: BBS would sell far more on the Wii in North America and Europe than it would on the PSP. 

nah, I wouldn't say that SE sucks. at least they released TWEWY. The best rpg this gen and one of the best in this decade(IMO)

It's the same with nintendo. if they hadn't release Mario galaxy this gen then nintendo should have just died. I was once a nintendo fan but now I can forgive them for everything they did this gen just because of galaxy.

I can forgive SE just because of TWEWY. :)

They should just try making some PS3 RPGs.

exactly. I mean they want to sell games but as far as I know they produced only xbox exclusives up until now. I don't want to flame xbox. It's just not popular in japan.