Last week during E3 Game Informer had a chance to sit in on not one, not two, but three Square Enix roundtable discussions. Each of the intimate chats involved up and coming titles from the publishing powerhouse, including talk about Final Fantasy XIII, Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope, Infinite Undiscovery, and The Last Remnant.
Roundtable Participants:
Yoshinori Kitase: Producer, Final Fantasy XIII
Meagan VanBurkleo: Game Informer Online
Joe Juba: Game Informer Magazine
This looks like a great way to play.
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"The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn’t finished.
This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for $7.5 billion, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Others across the Xbox organization have been told that more cuts are on the way.
Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said.
Game Pass has not seen the massive growth that Xbox boss Phil Spencer may have been hoping for."
"Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said"
So what you're saying is...you bought all these studios and you guys can't run them.
Jesus.
Reports are suggesting that Game Pass will be getting a price hike soon and that Call of Duty may not be added to the day one offering. I honestly have a hard time believing this but it does beg the question why exactly did GP fail? I think the answer is that it just didn't get the growth that it anticipated. Jim was right but I wish he wasn't because at the end of the day, its gamers, devs and other front-line workers who have to absorb the blow for Spencer and team's miscalculations.
For all the armchair executives who were calling for Sony to release its big-budget AAA games on PS+, the same exact thing would have happened at PlayStation. Game Pass has killed Xbox. Congrats.
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Why dont they ask for the Release Date of THe Last Remnant for the PS3? And why dont they ask if there will be a Star Ocean Port?
If they would be fair to every platform why dont they share the Exclusives!?
Okay Star Ocean 4 is the Versus 13 for Xbox360.. so why not sharing Infinite Undiscovery? B/
if square would spend as much time devoted to actually MAKING the games instead of talking about them then we would probably have the FF games by now. i've gotten tired of listening to this bunch tour the interview circut. just give us the games square and shut up.
I like how they asked about how the fanbase feels about Star Ocean going to a completely different platform, and he basically just sweeps the question under the rug.
I doubt Square-Enix cares about the fanbase of Star Ocean at this point. Even if it flops on the 360 they're still making money off of Microsoft paycheck.
How since the e3 setting of a xbox version of ff13, the same stories/questions/reminders are being thrown out. When it was a ps3
exclusive u didn't get this much info let alone interviews about it.
There are no new trailers, or info just the same dumb a$$ questions,
and theories on a release.
I guess it's fun to mock no?