Square Enix Now Mainly A Portable Developer

Wilhelm - 209 days 9 hours ago

I wonder how good/badly that's affected their bottom line. Anyone know of the current stats for the revenue from the portable games?

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Fishy Fingers - 209 days 9 hours ago

Doesn't surprise me to much to see them largely focussed on the portable market. The games are cheap to produce in comparison and Japan in general seem to have a love affair with gaming on the move.

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SpoonyRedMage - 209 days 9 hours ago

Well I think it was a good move, especially with the longer dev times and larger dev costs associated with HD gaming it was a good move to support the DS and PSP mostly and I don't think they've put a bad game on the portables yet? I mean even Chocobo Tales is enjoyable.

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Selyah - 209 days 8 hours ago

Pretty interesting, it comes as no surprise that they are backing the DS considerably in terms of the volume of titles they've put out on it especially in Japan. I imagine we'll probably see a shift in this trend albeit maybe not drastic sometime towards the later half of this year and 2010. Then again I don't really know how much of a line they have on the portable side either for this year and next year.

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Dirty Beaver - 209 days 8 hours ago

The most dissapointing developer currently of this gen. Until they take their heads out of their a## and start deveoling worthwhile gamesfor their original fanbase(you know, the ones who actually MADE them who they are now)then they will remain the most hated devs of all time.

With the way their going, they'll easily take that title fom EA in no time. Well done Square loosers.

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Allowen - 209 days 7 hours ago

Well. it is hard to make a cool looking game and make it use the full 50G space of a blu-ray disk.

I bet that with a like FIVE remakes of FF(s) for the DS or PSP SE made more money then what FF13 will give then when it arrives and it probably cost 100 times more then the remakes for the portable Vgs.

To make games for this gen cost too much money and some times also a couple if years to develop a game.
I can imagine that FF14 will probablly not come before 7 or 8 years after FF13 is released.

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labaronx - 209 days 7 hours ago

that Final Fantasy dissadia sold like a "million copies" in Japan alone and the sells of FF Crisis Core....

not really suprising.

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Death - 209 days 5 hours ago

Square has been bringing in revenue from portables for a few years now. This has been Square/Enix main revenue stream for quite some time while they focus on FFXIII. How does this affect their bottom line? This has been their revenue for atleast 2 to 3 years now. Without it they would have been in very bad shape. The reason for their annual loss was due to a DS game shipping late. Had it shipped on time they would have had a good year financially.

The games released on consoles this gen have been published by Square/Enix for another developer or they have been made on a third party engine for quick turn around. Square's main focus has been on FFXIII which is why the rants against them have been unsubstantiated at best.

-Death

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atwon23 - 209 days 3 hours ago

I think its crazy they haven't released 1 ps3 game. Although Infinite Undiscovery and Last Remnant didnt get very good reviews, some love for the ps3 would be nice.

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Steven Colbert - 209 days 7 hours ago

FF XIII Agito > You

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