Can't say I agree with the portables comment. ff advent was bad and 3rd birthday was meh. Re mastering a game for the ds isn't exactly groundbreaking.
This will be the first final fantasy in 15 years I will not buy on release day. Maybe when it gets to 19.99 or lower.
Wada has single handily destroyed squareenix. The name square-enix used to mean the best games now it means mediocre at best. Wada's personal vendetta against sony has only hurt the gaming industry as a whole. Just hurry up and leave wada.
Did wada really blame weak console sales? LOL Wada is a failure at life.
I picked it up day one and got a pretty decent man purse from gamestop. No I am seriously disappointed from ea.
GT5 proved it wasnt a conspiracy it was true.
I found gt5 to the best in the series. I have zero idea where this hate is coming from.
The live subscription offsets the loses.Profit for last year for the whole division was around that much. The whole reason live is going up is because they need to make that money back double or investors will start selling. Also natal is gonna be a huge loss for the company many investors think it will cost 1 billion for them to release it. Microsoft has also increased costs to release on xbox live thats why developers are starting to get peeved.
Microsoft has no plan to recuperate the 8 billion and counting they have lost on xbox brand. The whole point of the xbox was to get the microsft name into your tvs not just your computers. The xbox was a trojan horse and now we will see microsoft abandon the hardcore gamers and invest everything into natal. Natal is exactly what MS wanted a device to control the home using MS SOFTWARE.
Sony did the same with blu-ray but they have no intentions on screwing the hardcore gamers...
NO apple does not have more money then ms. NO NO NO.Microsoft kills apple in profits and profit margins. You are thinking revenue which apple only beat ms one or two quarters. Revenue means nothing really.
I actually have a 2.4 6 bolt with a fp red
1. Madden NFL 11 (360) - 920,800
2. Madden NFL 11 (PS3) – 893,600
I would say software sales prove that the lead the 360 had is pretty much finished. Even if the 360 is selling more systems it doesnt seem to be new buyers since software sales are stagnating.
Seriously dude your generalization of ps3 fanboys can be applied to all fanboys. Its pretty pathetic that you hold a hate for one type of fanboy. I remember the rage when tales of vesperia went to the ps3 in japan. Same reaction but from 360 fanboys. Wada maybe received one or two death threats the rest were insults to the way he is running the company.
While wada shouldnt get death threats the insults he's getting are awesome. The man is destroying square-enix as a whole and the japanese are finally snapping. Wada will have to take a real hard look at the future of the company. We want good games not linear crap. If the game can be made better by making it exclusive then it has to be done.
Mass effect was a exclusive franchise of few the 360 had. FF13 has already been released on the 360. The surprise factor is different here. Its more like why bother.
Wada is extremely stupid instead of releasing something to coincide with the release of gt5 that will bring a huge influx of new owners to the ps3. They decide to release something for the 360............ Seriously square-enix is dying a sloooww death.
Damn that was fast.
I doubt for a second that s-e is paying for localization. Microsoft is paying for this plus interest.But I doubt Microsoft has any choice in the matter. They have zero jrpgs coming anytime soon. Halo and Gears don't sell in japan. Honestly when was the last big exclusive game that the 360 had for japanese consumers? I doubt any japanese publisher will favor the 360 anymore after lackluster sales.
Strategy? I thought his idea of strategy was to destroy every good franchise they had.
2009 did well because surprise ff13. FF games always sell well. Why do you think square is rushing thru to make a sequel to 13? They developed 14 at a chinese developer that horribly destroyed it. The game has been a huge embarrassment to square-enix as a whole. Wada is looking incredibly bad right now in japan. Square is a sinking ship.