Oh well... At least they put out a shitload of games on Nintendo systems. :)

Since the heart of SquareSoft/Square-Enix Sakaguchi left Square is a shell of it's former self .
But let's not forget SE has been putting quality titles this gen, but you have to dig deeper like The world ends with you for the DS for instance,The last remannt for the PC has been getting Decent scores.
And the blog is soo wrong SE so far has supported Wii and handhelds than the HD consoles,SE so far on the 360 are IU and last remnant the rest are from Tri-Ace

IU was also made by Tri-Ace.

Your spouting customer nonsense. Darc provided a very business reason why they chose PS1 CD over Nintendo Cartridge. Darc did fail to mention developer room. Cramming data and working in a contstrained space is more difficult to work with. That's why FF7 spanned numerous CD and most of it was repative data. They had room to play with. Could you imagine the number of cartridges. Let alone the concept of cartridge swapping?

Qaulity of media only came with the space, not with the design decision. If Square felt that sticking with Nintendo would gain them more money they would have sacrificed qaulity for cash. They didn't PS1 offered more cash and freedom. It was all a business decision. Just because you came into gaming during the PS1 era and feel that SE is PS brand doesn't mean it's true.

I came in with SE durring the NES days trust me. After two generations of excellent premier games leaving for an opposing company... well it felt like a betrayal, but in retrospect it was a better decision for the company in the long run. But did the FF fans whine and bitch about a betrayal. Yes they did, but hey guess what. They bought a PS1 becuase that's were there favorite games went. NES most console, SNES most console, N64 less, PS1 most consoles, PS2 most console, PS3 least. get the pattern.

The lack of sight from SE these days is the same as the normal upstream market view. 

^ I love This Guy !!

Word.  That's why when I was a SE fan i bought the PS1 instead of N64.  Though I did get an N64 as a gift anyway.

No it wasn't...

Downhill....

FF4 is seen as the best JRPG made according to IGN for example.

FF6, CT, FF4 and Bahamut Lagoon.  Little Square has made have matched those 4 games since.

I'm grasping at nothing. Cartridge costs were 25 to 35 times the cost of CD cost per game. That is not including the licensing fee. If quality were the sole factor in their decision Square Enix could developed games for the PC Engine CD. However the Super Famicom had the largests usebase by far. If quality was the sole focus behind their decision making they would made the jump to CD when NEC did, especially NEC was moderately successful in Japan.

@CGI Quality

I understood the question. However it seems that you and others failed the to read "and highs costs of the cartridge format" part of my post. When something will cost you 25 to 35 times as much per unit its a major part of the decision making process. Cartridges had to be order months in advance and ordering a million FFVII cartridges for grand total of $25 million dollars(I'll use the lower capacity price) certainly didn't look as appealing as ordering 3 million FFVII CDs (the game was three disks) for $3 million dollars. Especially when Sony was charging the lowest licensing fees.

me too