Meh, still waiting for the darker Square-Enix games like Vagrant Story to get some loving. Why can't a full blown jRPG be made with that kind of gritty feel?

Instead we'll probably see more emo spikey haired anime characters crying over their lack of enough earrings and knecklaces for their fruity colored clothing.

"better games for me to poop on." Classic Triumph the Comic Dog reference.. Hilarious. As long as they continue to develop new games (like that Infinite Undiscovery) for multiplatform, incl. 360, I'm happy.

YES! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!! I want a return to the late 90's when a major Final Fantasy came out ever year or two (instead of every 4-6 years).

And now that profits are down, they'll be ever more desperate to do the FF7 remake. And to all you who don't want it: Great, don't play it. Many of us do want it.

Awesome, I hope Square teams up with EA on the Madden games. I could actually see myself playing them if they had a story mode with an in-depth battle system and good character development.

Oh ya i don't care about sqaure anymore. They are boring the hell out of me.

Oh my god look another final fantasy!!! Who would have guessed!!

well i can skip that game and not miss anything important.

Jim said it. Don't put the full blame on Square.

I can think of at least five franchises that they've killed off that I would get a second job in order to procure a special edition if they brought them back.

-Bushido Blade
-Einhander
-Tobal
-Vagrant Story
-Mischief Makers
-7th Saga

Hey look at that six.

I know this'll never happen... but a guy can wish, can't he?

they killed of bushido blade and most of there playsation games since they sucked. it was when sqaure started taking the dive and jumping the shark noew they are over the shark And jumping the shark in space with mosters thanks to the horrible game known as final fantasy 8. now you can sit through an hour long summon and DRAW over and over again /in SPace!! whoo.

now they even own star ocean to do it in space even more! YEs!

saga frontier that was a real winner.

legend of mana...

oh man the list of Bad playsation sqaure games is huge.

and it got even bigger on playsation 2.

That shouldn't be the attitude towards their employees.. hows threatening them to be jobless to do what they need to do when they do it...

Last time I checked ever since Hinorobu left the company has gone shithole down. Niero has a very valid point, working on their new engine is delaying the production of the game, not to mention it pulls back from their creativity to more of development. SE needs to focus on making their games more creative, and less CG.

We understand they are the king of RPG CG, but now its just hurting the business.

Read the actual article (that you linked to even):

http://www.developmag.com/news/29862/Square-Enix-boss-worried-company-is-too-insular

tl;dr = Wada said that the company "needed to go beyond traditional Square Enix", hinting at a wider portfolio of titles to come in the future.

That sounds like the opposite of what everyone is worried about here.

@ry_mc

YES! Exactly!

To whomever said Bushido Blade sucked: You're wrong. It has been scientifically proven that Bushido Blade is awesome. I read it in an issue of Popular Science. Look it up and get back to me. Better yet, I'm busy. Call my secretary.

I do think sometimes some of us, read too much into what we read, an easy mistake to make.

There's one thing all of us DS gamers should do, and that's to support The World Ends With You by purchasing a copy.

Why? Because when the sales figures come back to Square Enix, they'd hopefully see that we do want original product from them, not just the remakes they've been pimping for time. And despite their lack of advertising, it will prove that word of mouth amongst gamers still matters.

The bells are indeed aringing at Square Enix, and I believe this is going to be change for the better. They know that once those last few FF and DQ DS remakes are out, they have to focus, spread the wings to more variety, potential outsourcing to western developers and multiplatform games more.

The original product and more deserving stuff like TWEWY, has been overshadowed for too long. You really gotta step up ads, for all of your games, to the same level, Square.

If any employees were to exit Square Enix, it might not be such a bad thing, as many of them have learned from great teachers and may set up on their own. That's why Mistwalker are already doing well, and in regard to that, us rpg nuts would stand to benefit from fresh ideas.

And the rpg that excites me the most on the horizon is, Sega/Platinum Games Infinite Line rpg on DS. A totally fresh game. Looking at that game, it becomes evermore clear that Square need to stop living in the past and focus on new stuff. Whether they listen is up to them, but I know I'll be buying very little from them til they do (TWEWY being an exception).

byrc is right on the money regarding this article. Thanks for avoiding the initial 'Oh NOES!' reflex most people seem to be having and peering a little deeper into what Wada was saying. Nice work.

That said, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if some fella over at SquareEnix decided to make, oh, I dunno, a full-fledged Chrono Trigger sequel his pet-project. That'd be the bee's knees. *le sigh*

so where's the TWEWY destructoid review? You'd think a game everyone seems to like so much deserves some face time.

i hope byrc is right, in any case. Squeenix (or rather, squaresoft and enix seperately) is only a shadow of its former self. it'd be nice to see them regain some of that sense of style they used to have.

Eh, I really have no opinion on this. If it's as Colette says, then it's just S-E being S-E and I'll continue to dislike them. If it's as byrc or whatever says, I have a glimmer of hope that maybe they'll make something interesting for once.

As it is, I don't really care either way at the moment. We'll just see what happens.

Maybe if the release that FFVII remake, they could make enough money to make some original games. Einhander sequel?

Wow, just... wow.
This is really, really sad news for video games :(

Uhh, I think Collete should rectify this article, considering it's pretty obvious this was a misinterpretation on her part..the article she even links to specifically states that Wada is trying to *expand* their portfolio of games and do *more* original work. His statement was that they need to stop being "the typical Square Enix", which means they need to stop being what everyone thinks S-E is; just Final Fantasy rehashes and remakes. So, he's saying he wants the company to move toward doing *more* original work, which is why in interviews lately he's been all jazzed about Infinite Undiscovery, he likes their original work.

uh seriously....the world just ended with you Squeenix.

Outside the Dragon Quest games coming to the DS and TWEWU, I don't think i'll be picking up many Squeenix games. Atlus are bringing better quality RPGs over anyway. Plus Namco is TRYING to increase it's Tales of series in America.

by Squeenix.

Wouldn't sales be down this fiscal year because... they released FFXII two years ago, and didn't have a landmark FF game this year?

Sigh, Square, sigh.

I suspect that the problem isn't that the creative games are not selling, it is simply the fact that square has a huge ego and insists on overcharging for games , My mouth was agape when I found out TWEY was 40 bucks a 33% increase in price just because its made by square.