Square-Enix Wants Better Chrono Trigger Sales

June 8, 2009 - Hoping for a new Chrono Trigger game? Better start buying your grandmother and her dog a copy, too.

Speaking to RPGsite.com, Square Enix Senior Vice President Shinji Hashimoto says the franchise hasn't sold well enough to warrant development of a new title in the series. When told fans were clamoring for a new game, Hashimoto shrugged it off.

"That's not what the sales tell me!" Hashimoto said. "If people want a sequel, they should buy more!"

While sales of the Nintendo DS version of the Super Nintendo classic were somewhat sluggish, with worldwide sales reaching close to 800K last year, it doesn't help the game originally hit retail shelves at a ridiculous $39.99 price point in the North America.

If Square-Enix wants more sales, how about they stop overcharging fans for 14-year old ports?

http://games.ign.com/articles/992/992344p1.html

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SE is rediculus. They sold 800k of pure profit DS copies with rerelease after god knows how many years and they still say it wasn't selling well enough ?

By the thread's title, I guess Chrono Cross doesn't exist anymore.

is that how we get a new one?...*go's out to buy 15 copies of chrono trigger*

Ugh, isn't 800k good enough!?

I'm not donating money to square for a game I already have in hopes that maybe they will make one I want.

Heh, it almost sounds as if the pricks are holding the series hostage.
Honestly though, over the years, i have really come to doubt if the magic of Chrono Trigger can even be recreated. I mean, Cross was a very good game, but not quite "there". And the original "Dream Team" will be near impossible to reassemble. Not to say that i would mind being proven wrong on this.