Square Enix has announced their financial figures for the fiscal year ending March 31st, 2009 and have noted that there has been a drop since the figures of last year. GameIndustry.biz reports that revenues fell 8% in comparison to the previous year, which finished out at JPY 135.7 billion (USD 1.44 billion). Their net income also dropped, 31.1 per cent to JPY 6.3 billion (USD 67 million).
The numbers also show that Square is spending the most money on salaries, with USD 170.2 million being spent this past year, roughly 2 billion more than was spent the previous year. Must be that huge Final Fantasy XIII staff -- isn't Square famous for having huge teams work on those titles? Hopefully the game will help them out when it's time to count up the monies again next year.
In other Square news, Blood of Bahamut has been confirmed with a Japanese release date of August 6th. Let's hope we get to hear a US release date announced shortly afterwards, as this is one my my most wanted DS titles of the year. Bring em here and I'll try to help out with those financials, Square!
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2:40 PM on 05.22.2009
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Or make a sequel to Trigger. And stop being a dicks about that homebrew semi-sequel.
Remake FF7 and make a true sequel to Chrono Trigger and you'll be set financially until the PS4 comes out.
I want more original IP's though.
They shouldn't publish crappy ones either(Star Ocean 4).
I might buy 4 games that had Cloud in them. Depending on what they were and how awesome they appeared.
Now, they put out shitty games, and when all else fails; PORT!
Speaking of ports, like everyone said: Square, look, just make the god damned FF7 remake already, and put out ridiculously priced collector's editions for $100. I know for a fact 90% of Dtoid's population would buy it.
Maybe if they stop releasing the same old shit. Or broken shit. Infinite Undiscovery was a broken Rogue Galaxy. Last Remnant was almost interesting, but broken and the PC Port was craptacular. The other new stuff they bring out is the same tired mechanics with the same tired plot. How many times can you save the world from a super evil man, which starts off as some contrived political plot?