They could also take something from Nintendo in that they shouldn't feel so compelled to make games that rival Rockstar's in terms of budget. 

I am actually thinking about buying stocks right now or after the financial report is released. The numbers won't be good, that is for sure. So the stock will go down even further, but with Star Ocean / FF XIII / DQ there are three great games coming out and people are hyped for this.

There is a gameplay video on the German Xbox Live marketplace available right now. I mean, the game is coming out in April 2010. That is the first indicator that MS will advertise FF as big as GTA IV, just to show that former PS3 exclusives made their way to the Xbox360. The PS360 Userbase will be like 70 million when this game is released. So there is a bright future for Square Enix I guess.

Right now everything is just bad for SE. They just had two smaller releases on the HD-Consoles (actually just on the Xbox360). The development-costs for FF XIII must be huge. The Yen is way too high, even though this is not THAT bad, because a great part of the revenue is done in Japan anyway but the revenue in Europe / NA is not as big as it could be. The worldwide economy will affect SE for sure.

But all of these negative points are temporary. So in 1 year, SE will have some good numbers to show.

What do you think? Should I invest money in SE? I am thinking about 1000 - 1500€. So not that much money, actually. But to see an extra 500€ for doing nothing is not that bad either.

Sony needed this announcement at E3 2006. PS3 was about to launch, and what did they have to show? Eye of Judgement? Genji 2? Giant enemy crab?

They needed SE and Konami's help to not look like a complete idiots with this 599$ price tag. Blaming SE for showing FFXIII so early is certainly not that PS3 fans should do, this has helped the console a lot.

Aye, the delays on all of their major products really cripples their numbers. I'm curious though what the delay is for.

I'm being a bit pessimistic here but I think the delay might be for posting a loss, it might also be very nasty.

It will pick up in '09, when SE releases DQIX and FFXIII in Japan, as well as shifting development away from the PS360 and towards the Wii and the portables.

Oh yeah... why do I think of Square whenever I think of that game? Did they publish it or something?

Nevermind all that, my point is still valid. Square used to make good stuff (and new too, if you, like me, don't consider CC a sequel to CT), now they kind of... don't.

next year square will be rolling in it with the games they have.

but this year they should have made a multiplat release of last remnant.

Hey atleast they didn't blame the handhelds or did they......

It was in 2005 we saw the first images..... wonder how long before that the development started.