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Square Enix raises FY14 forecast due to FFXIV, DQM:SL, Thief, FFX, and TR
- Thread starter Exentryk
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Poochie died on the way back to his home planet.
Velcro Fly
Member
Good for you SE. Make quality products and make more money. Now keep it up! 
Eh. If only they published Bravely...they would have mentioned BD and not Lightning Returns, the hilarity.
Nightengale
Member
Thief met expectations!?
I expected a bomba considering how much development issues that game had which must have impacted the cost.
I expected a bomba considering how much development issues that game had which must have impacted the cost.
ShogunDarius
Member
think they got the message?
Nothing1016
Member
No signs of Bravely Default nor Lightening Returns.
Edit: Seems BD as published by Nintendo. Oops.
Edit: Seems BD as published by Nintendo. Oops.
On the plus side I guess unwanted sequels will not be so eagerly pursued in the future. I imagine LR had some interesting enough ideas, but they need to relearn the value of new IP, even if it's just riffing off of FF... though I guess Bravely Default was a step in that direction.
That one's probably in a weird position because Nintendo published outside of Japan and I have to imagine For The Sequel was just a modest cash-in update in Japan. Kind of like how I doubt Skyrim Legendary Edition did the lion's share of Skyrim sales, that's more feeding off the people who were late and wanted an even better value. Granted Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is there, but that has next gen allure to it especially with people starving for worthwhile games, versus the same time last year when there were quite a few heavy hitting PS3/360 titles and interest was down on a whole for those consoles.
Bravely Default is published by Nintendo.
What expectations.
Yeah with reduced margins I can't imagine it moving the bar much even if they would normally report it a la Capcom and Dead Rising 3.
In the Bargain Bin.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Woah, hold on a minute, Thief met expectations?
Or did SE preemptively lower their expectations in the first place and knew it'd sell like arse?
Or did SE preemptively lower their expectations in the first place and knew it'd sell like arse?
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
FFX Hd must be 1 million+ by now. Glad FF14 is doing well, heard it was one of the best FF's in a long time.
Get on that FF12 HD SE!
Get on that FF12 HD SE!
Nightengale
Member
Woah, hold on a minute, Thief met expectations?
Or did SE preemptively lower their expectations in the first place and knew it'd sell like arse?
With a project that goes off the rails like this it's not unusual to just expect to lose money in order to establish the brand.
If it sold enough that they went "Yeah we can make a sequel to this." they'd probably consider that a success even if it lost money.
With a rough development history you probably had to expect the worst.Woah, hold on a minute, Thief met expectations?
Or did SE preemptively lower their expectations in the first place and knew it'd sell like arse?
Plus maybe people with next gen systems are just THAT starved, it's certainly been tempting to me but I want to be more pragmatic, $60 isn't to be casually thrown around.
Nothing1016
Member
HA. Completely slipped my mind.
GreenMakoEyes
Member
Final Famtasy? Is that an attempt to preemptively cash in on the China pirate market?
LOL
Seiya was an average boy with an average life, but one evening's meteorite crash will change his life forever. Haunted by nightmares of his extended family dying, he initially shrugs the real life deaths of his uncle and grad mother as a cruel coincidence. But the dreams become more vivid in detail as Seiya quickly realizes that he must explore his subconscious to save his family.
Welcome to Final Famtasy.
Soon to be a best-selling Japanese light-novel series.
Welcome to Final Famtasy.
Soon to be a best-selling Japanese light-novel series.
Exentryk
Member
Should be out sometime this month. FY12's was released on 13th May 2013.
Btw, someone edited the thread title. FY15?
Sorry I had a typo, but this is FY14, not FY12 unless they name them differently in Japan: http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/
Boss Mog
Member
I laughed way too hard at this, thanks
Exentryk
Member
I must have misread before but I thought Japan's fiscal year was the calendar year it starts in. It's actually the calendar year it ends in, so FY14 is correct. Cheers.
But the reception was so negative that it didn't establish a brand. The Metacritic scores were below 70 which executives consider a death knell for any possible sequel.
I expect they will have to give at least some kind of guidance on what to expect unless they're actually just going to put out revenue and profit numbers with effectively zero announced games.
Hey we got two sequels to both Lost Planet and Army of Two!
Final Famtasy? Is that an attempt to preemptively cash in on the China pirate market?
Apparently Capcpom is doing SQEX's editing now.
inb4 FFXV
I'm assuming they're primarily relying on Eidos this year for new releases.
I'm having trouble seeing FFXV out before Fall 2015.
Oh yeah I wonder what release dates their aiming with Tomb Raider 2 and new Deus EX. Both will be out before XV I imagine.
Yeah i'd say TR2 for Q1 '15, two years after the original's release.
And FFXV in Spring or Fall, but that's depend on if and how it'll be at E3.