Square Enix holding back on E3 (Swine Flu fears)

Square Enix does not want to attend E3

Capcom isn't the only Japanese company that will have a more limited E3 presence than previously expected.

[fat-american]

stupid chiese. whats the point

these chiense dont know nothing

[I did not murder him]

LOL@ this anti American perpetrator.

[silverchode]

he sounds like a normal redneck american.

[a3290]

hahaha

[I did not murder him]

He also sounds like the basic ignorant stereotype you get from people that have never left their village all envyous. He's not smart enough to figure out the USA is a collection of people from all over the world and is only just over a couple hundred years old?

[theKiller]

u r a jew, a zionist must be!!!

on topic:

islam forbids eating pigs!! and now we can see many wisdom behind forbidden the pig meat from Allah/God/Eloi/Ellah.

PS3 FTW, 360 FTW(fail that way)

proud muslim and sony fan!

[Mario18]

Well thats pretty bad excuse because both Square and Koei just don't have any games to show at E3. Square is scared of saying a release date for FF XIII because it will keep getting delayed and delayed thanks to the 360.

I doubt that if square and koei brought in they're whole staff that anyone is going to catch swine flu. Theres a bigger chance of someone dying of a heart attack of Sony's E3 show. Usually toddlers and around that age die of Swine.

[Barack-Obama-Sucks]

They are stupid.

We dotn have swine flu.

The mexicans d0

[BadboyCivic]

I see PS3 zombies blame the 360 for the delay...how about blaming the company that is making the game...Its all about greed and lack of imagination on square's part...there future depends on this game and they gambled quantity over quality...

[LastDance]

Nice excuse

[Kakkoii]

You can tell by 1.1's name and comment that he's obviously an ignorant person devoid of any real intelligence. Who doesn't listen to facts, or unbiased news. But clings to his far..far right wing ideologies and won't listen to anything that contradicts his opinions.

USA actually has the most reports of Swine Flu.
http://healthmap.org/swinef...

People travel around a lot more than in Mexico, so it spreads quicker.

[SuperM]

lol i cant believe how scared the japanese are of the swine flu. Its not any more dangerous than any other flu, its just that you are more likely to get infected since your not resistant to it. Every year thousands of people die of flu, but that because they are either old or have a very weak imune system.

[LynyrdSkynyrd]

Am I wrong, or did I read somewhere that Swine Flu is less harmful than regular flu...?

[theKiller]

there will be no swine flu problem!!

square enix should fail for their desertion on sony part!

[BLuKhaos]

You're falling for it.That's probably that hitler kid going around trolling again, just report and continue on your way.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

It's funny seeing Playstation fans with hurt feelings over FF XII.

[Kakkoii]

@BLuKhaos: Yeah I know he's most likely a troll. But I feel inclined to put the facts out there for passerby's.

[BLuKhaos]

You floppy retard Final Fantasy XII is still exclusive to us.I swear you Xboxers have an IQ as high as your console's defect rate.

[Sarcasm]

"I swear you Xboxers have an IQ as high as your console's defect rate. "

Nah, just Jason 360. His attempts at sarcasm is laughable.

@jason FFXII was on the PS2 buddy. Or are you too retarded to realize your own stupid comment?

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

FF XIII I figured you guys were smart enough to realize that the missing "I" was a typo, guess not.

[DNAgent]

It looks like all of that garbage companies that make nothing but mediocre games will have only a small presence at E3. This really is going to be the best E3 in years.

[fat-american]

this is pathetic

[ssipmraw]

whats the matter, parents finally tell you that you were adopted from a pack of wild pigs

[rebirthofcaos]

I hope that wada get the swine flu because he is a pig.

[samura]

Did you meet him in person or lived a few minutes around him to confirm that?

I hope this does not affect the unveiling of other companies.

[Barack-Obama-Sucks]

How are they pigs. Just because they know 360 is where the money is

[ssipmraw]

He WaS A PiG????

no wonder their games suck so bad

[leeger]

yeah 360 is where the money is, that is why SE revenue went down, so please SE continue releasing exclusive 360 exclusive games please.

[SuperM]

Yea look at how well The last remnant, infinite discovery and Star Ocean 4 sold on 360. The 360 truly is a true moneymaker for Square.

/end sarcasm

[gaffyh]

2.2 - Look at his name it's confirmed, all Xbox fanboys are racist, ignorant 12 year olds. Lol

[FarEastOrient]

One PSP game generated more revenue for Square Enix than all the Xbox 360 games released by them combined last year. I think the scaling back is more of a reflection of how they are tighter on their cash resources from backing up a platform that hasn't generated a profit for them.

Remember I'm a Square Enix shareholder... I want Wada-san out!

[LynyrdSkynyrd]

How does that make him racist? WTF? Just because he doesnt like Barack Obama that makes him racist?

[gaffyh]

No it doesn't I was joking dude.

[solidsnakus]

you know.. i never thought of that before. having thousands of smelly nerds walking around a convention will defenetly give you some kinda disease.

[Sarcasm]

Wow, good perspective. On top of that, hanging around the 360 fanboys will definitely make you dumber. I'm not going to E3.

[Barack-Obama-Sucks]

FFv13 Xbox360

E3 2009? ANyone

[Nathan123]

If that happens, then I will personally import few pigs from Mexico and release them in the SE conference... Or better... Just enchain Wada with an infected one.

That actually might be a possibility.... This whole Swine flu excuse is crap. The reason that they are scared to come to E3 is cause if they announce FF vs 13 for 360, they know PS3 gamers will start throwing their shoes at them... That is why they want a 'confined space attended by only selected people'. Just try that SE... This year you suffered massive loss and if you do that trust me you guys are going 3D Realms way.... Extinction.

[SpoonyRedMage]

Damn, it's not even that bad(the disease I mean).

Hopefully they'll stick make some good announcements. I want to hear about some of their lesser games like Blood of Bahamut and Dragon Quest Wars.

EDIT: Oh look an article about Square Enix, two comments in an insult thrown at Wada... any surprise? I wonder if they'll be a hate brigade here as well.

[deckard579]

excuses excuses

[Unicron]

This is no worse than any other flu. The media latched onto it and turned it into some kind of epidemic. Lame.

I wonder if it really IS because they don't have anything to show off right now...

[slave2Dcontroller]

Their parent company Microsoft will be there to reveal their games for them. XD

[Forrest Gump]

Replace "parent company" with "Sugar Daddy" and you've got yourself a AAA comment.

[evrfighter]

I ->Would Have<- Lol'd if that were the case.

[MajesticBeast]

Ahh well what do they have to show anyway another failed xbox360 exclusive a announcement to delay ff13 till duke nukem fornever comes out maybe even some more remakes for handhelds and ps1 style graphix for dq10 with the wii. Nomura leave the sinking ship that is se and join level 5 or join sony. Wada has done some damage the guy is a retard that doesnt admit he was wrong.

Yeah i do have 1 of those infinite undiscovery and i must say i turned that sh!t off after 2 hours voice acting was horrid like scratching a chalkboard with a fork horrid, buggy with a sh!tty combat system worst 60 bucks ever spend on a game. Then you get shafted with the purchase of chrono trigger with added content what a joke a freaking rom on the ds with 2% extra content that just has to be worth the 40 bucks... So yeah SE rly had to show ffxiiivs or just stay away from e3.

[evilmonkey501]

More people die from regular influenza than the swine flu. This is an outright lie. They are not showing because they are not ready. They are using this as an excuse. Its not even a plausible one, which makes me dislike them even more.

[Legendary-Status]

100% EXCUSE

[Reshun]

I'm not going to the gamestop to buy inFamous because of the swine flu.

[I did not murder him]

It takes the flu for you to come to that decision?

Nice one. You'll be claiming that in the next few NPD game data releases?

[Unicron]

Wow, a harmless joke, and the Xbox fanboy extraordinaire rushes in to talk about, you guess it, sales numbers!

Pathetic. Hilariously pathetic.

Square Enix should show off the Birth by Sleep stuff they've been hiding, I want that game!

[Reshun]

Can't blame you for not viewing my comment as being sarcastic as it's difficult to understand through texts without hearing the actual speech. Although I would prefer not having to use /sarcasm all the time..

[Sarcasm]

"You'll be claiming that in the next few NPD game data releases? "

This person doesn't play video games, he plays NPD numbers. Wow, definitely better than any PS3 exclusive!

[drewsny]

wow this is a bad excuse for square not having any games to show.

[MetalGearBear]

why u not sleep with pig(real)?

[-MD-]

English?

[menoyou]

what a bunch of sissies

[disgaea]

is that why all their 360 games flopped?

[Dawn_Of_Ashes]

Anyway, no one should ever care about this overrated studio with crappy overrated games

[Sarcasm]

Whoa, pump your brakes kid. Square was a legend.

Now Enix on the other hand, is the skirt marks on the underpants of society.

[menoyou]

i mean really, all the weird bisexual heroes and cross dressers in their games and now theyre "scared of coming to the biggest video game show in the world because a few people got swine flu"

really, wow. i think its just been confirmed that square-enix is officially gay

or maybe after their sales are down 31% they want an excuse to tell their investors because they know they have nothing good to show (besides some crappy RPG thats timed exclusive on xbox) and their market value will probably drop

[GoldenAge]

and off topic isn't this a dupe thread of http://www.n4g.com/events_e...

I mean didn't the contributor test state that you have to post from the main source of the news which is gamesindustry.biz? Shouldn't this be an alternate link?

[I love video games]

umm, i just had a urge to play some ff3 (the one on super nintendo the one with sabin, locke, terra, and others and i think it had the best bad guy, kefka). but back to the topic they can stay out of e3 until the make a ff like 7,8 or my fave 3.... this is just my opinion

[sinncross]

As long as they send Sony a trailer for FFVersus 13 for use in their E3 Conference, I could care less whether SE can make it or not.

[Legendary-Status]

to the comment above... that's exactly what I want to see FFV13 gameplay or something.... yea just send the clip and I'll be Fine...you don't have to come to E3 since your scared of Porky the Pig lol...

[Shuya]

Why not just do a video conference stream of their new content live from Japan? Is it really that hard for such huge companies to set up.

[saimcheeda]

Can never get swine flu!!!muahahahaahahaha!!!

[Sir Ken_Kutaragi]

Oh dear, looks like any idiot on this site can submit a Story!!! :-/

IT'S A SAD DAY FOR THIS SITE!!!(Well even sadder!!!) ;-D

[zaldare]

"Yeah, im not going to school today cuz i think i got the swine flu.. I'll see you tomorrow!"

[Guitardr85]

The swine flu is not bad, it's just new. The WORST case scenario predicts that there may be around 1500 swine flu deaths in the US this year alone. Sounds scary...until you account for the fact that regular good ole influenza kills around 35,000 a year in the US. The media has just blown swine flu out of proportion.

Plus it actually has no relation to pigs at all...Yet people around the world are slaughtering their swine stock. That's what's funny...YOU CAN'T GET SWINE FLU FROM PIGS!!!

[ChickeyCantor]

O wow, thats just stupid...
hahah.

Kill the piggy, make the farmer poor, force it to hand over the land.
Conspiracy get.

SwineFlu is BS and isn't gonna get millions of people sick.
These people are retarded LOL.

[siliticx]

If E3 is affected like that i have a bad feeling about the olympics.

[JHUX]

They will probably go now after everyone starts calling them pussies, and end up getting swine flu and facing a sudden death.

Btw, I in no way believe Swine Flu is as bad as what the media is making it to be.