"SquareEnix Quarterly report from last year. I didn't hear them taking money specifically from Dragon Quest, but as past evidence has shown from those reports, they do use their money from their combined company to fund both sides now. So its only logical a portion of the money they just made from their massive DQIX sales has to go into the development and marketing costs of FFXIII, which was going way over deadline."

That's not a bad thing. That's done all the time, even before this gen. I thought you meant they took development money (like what was done with Superman IV).

But the fact that FFXIII even needed that shows how these "grand visions" of HD gaming are way over the line (not that the graphic are a bad things, I mean the cost, time, and focus).

But that's for another thread. The point of this thread is I think that S-E isn't lazy as much as needs a focus adjustment (if they aren't doing it already).

Yeah, I agree. Chrono Trigger has a lot of potential (as a series) and it should be continued but I doubt SE will make anything to continue the series.

Chrono Trigger DS is the second port of the same game and the enhancements aren't that big IMO (but it sold well, probably because of the name) and they wanted to see this game selling millions... It's really hard to understand. The worst part is that they are blaming the fans because this second port without any big enhancements isn't selling more than 1 million.

CUz it doesn't have the name 'Final Fantasy' or 'Kingdom Hearts' in the title.

All jokes aside, recently Wada actually came out and admitted that 'perhaps', just 'perhaps' his company and vision had been on the wrong course and in the future, they should focus on making less Final Fantasy titles and focus on making more new IPs.  What a novel idea...  Will this lead to also reviving some of the dying/dead properties like Chrono, Mana, Bushido Blade, Front Mission, etc?  We'll see.