Square Enix earnings drop, lack of 'major title releases' to blame

...Surprise, surprise.

Wait no, *totally* expected. Let's see if their board members take an "Iwata" style paycut.

Dead Island will save it!! /s

"We couldn't think of any stories staring amnesiac, stoic, androgynous teens this year."

Well of course their profit is down, they haven't made a halfway decent game in years.

I was never a big fan of Square Enix, but I at least hope that they stay afloat because they own EIDOS. If it wasn't for that, I really wouldn't care. They're washed up, and their lack of any decent titles proves it.

Let's just hope Deus Ex keeps them in the game.

Yep. Not selling things certainly has an adverse effect on your sales.

I distinctly remember them saying they would cut the smaller games that don't give them such revenues in order to focus on new releases for their major IPs.

http://www.destructoid.com/more-detail-from-square-president-no-more-non-mainstream-games-allowed-87774.phtml

It (honestly) looked promising. They said they would cut the cooking mamas and the nicotto towns in order to deliver better games. What happened to that?

It will come in a wave for SE now.
Final Fantasy Type-0
Deus Ex: HR
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Hitman 5
Tomb Raider
and so on.

Deus Ex is sounding like a resounding success from advance reviews, so hopefully this will start a turnaround for the embattled SE.

"Lack of major title release"? Are you serious?! How about Lack of a decent game period.

The biggest question is whether Square will actually respond to market changes or stay the course until failure?. Buying Eidos is not sufficient, they need to approach game development differently.

I haven't bought a Square game in years, and that includes games in one of my favorite series, Kingdom Hearts. After all these years, Versus XIII looks like a mature version of Kingdom Hearts (In my opinion), and I don't think I want to play that either. There will have to be some serious improvements in the formula for me to even think about buying Versus XIII.

Taking years to develop a spinoff JRPG based in the same universe as your last game, and releasing it only after everyone has moved on is a great recipe for success.

Wakfu is very fun in it's current beta stages. Hopefully that F2P will rake in some nice dough for them.

I almost feel bad for SE. They kinda seem like a company who is still trying but keep tripping over themselves and not asking for help from fans. It doesn't seem arrogant to me, just more like they wish they had the competence to do it themselves.

"That game wasn't that good? Oh um, Well, how about this one?"

The new lead behind FFXIV is great. The game is really improving over its terrible launch. And my server is so active!

Looks like Square Enix will have to use a Phoenix Down if they hope to resurrect their sales and that Phoenix Down is named Final Fantasy Versus XIII!

just release Kingdom Hearts 3!

Yeah, I don't get it...they have such promising titles to release like FFvsXIII, KH3, and others I can't think of atm, but continue to say nothing regarding them, all-the-while releasing tons of spin-off crap that doesn't sell well!

And not too long ago they released a statement they'd be all for remaking some of their older more exciting FF titles if the demand for them was great enough. Its like, umm hello FFVII has most the world pining for a remake, and it wouldn't hurt to remake FFVI as well. Both of which are a goldmine, yet they continue to ignore us, as if we're being silent.

Also, sheesh...FFXIV...le sigh! I read the forums ever so often and its like they've given up. There are so many tiny fixes, that are mandatory for a successful MMO being asked about and requested, yet all we keep getting is a broken record response of "sometime in the future" when most of these fixes could be made in a day and hot-patched immediately.

I'm on the verge of giving up on SE, they just don't get it, and while I'm quite excited about Deus Ex, Tomb Raider & Hitman...those are still entirely Eidos developed regardless that SE owns them now...

Needs more Amano and Uematsu.

do you remember when almost one after another Square released

Final Fantasy VII
SaGa Frontier
Final Fantasy Tactics
Xenosaga
Final Fantasy VIII
Chrono Cross
Vagrant Story
Legend Of Mana
SaGa Frontier 2
Parasite Eve
Parasite Eve 2
Brave Fencer Musashi
Final Fantasy IX
Front Mission 3

Those were our days :(

Squenix should take this as a clue to release Vs. 13.

@(Unverified) Yeah but remember this is Square Enix and most of their older game series are pretty damn dead and newer ones such of Kingdom Hearts rely on fillers because KH3 will not go into development until after FF VS. XIII bombs, in which cause people will be pissed cause by then Birth By Sleep Vol. 2 might be released as a game.

If they release a sequel to "The World Ends WIth You" I'd buy 5.

Heh....They are their own worst enemy.

@sweetbrother
They'd probably would be PS3-exclusives. And I'd buy the god damn system if at least one of them (sans Chocobo Dungeon) came out.

Hmm, how about Vs XIII, Kingdom Hearts 3, Brave Fencer Musashi (PSone classic), and The World Ends with You 2?
I guarantee they would be rolling in cash if they actually brought those out.

Hey, Square, give us a proper Chrono Trigger sequel!

And don't mention that flaming POS Cross in the context of the game. There you go.

Now seems like a good time for them to finally do that PS3 remake of Final Fantasy 7, then they'd be breathing money

@YourMomsLover That's too confusing. I don't understand at all.

@Reggie FilsAime *Dissidia Duodecim Prologus Final Fantasy

Just to point out exactly how absurd these names are.

"Square Enix earnings drop, lack of 'good games' to blame"

Fixed that for you, Yoichi.

Give me a sequel to DQ Heroes: Rocket Slime. That game was the shit.

I was going to say:
"Here's a deal for you, SquareEnix, I'll throw some money your way if you stop being so greedy with your iOS games and lower their prices by like a half."

Then I went on the app store to make sure I wasn't making a fool of myself. Turns out some of their games are on sale for a week "to celebrate the release of Final Fantasy Tactics." It seems that most of their games are about 50% off right now.

Well played, SquareEnix. Expect some money come from me via Apple.

Make a good game, something you havent done in the past half decade. How about that SquareEnix?