New Square Enix president promises a review of the company

I think this is sad news. Square Enix has actually done the opposite of EA - they've tried not to be evil.

Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider and Hitman: Absolution are all games where Squenix has backed off and supported the developers. United Front Games even said they where supportive when they wanted to make a higher-quality PC version of Sleeping Dogs. They played nice but in the end it didn't pay off.

Oh well. Guess this means massive layoffs and focusing on producing crap that sells to the average gamer. Or maybe another MMO.

"then cast all of our resources towards extending what makes us successful and thoroughly squeezing out what doesn't." lol, has anybody seen that statement means that they will go down the way EA and Activision are going? ....when they crunch the numbers as he wants to, they will ultimately see rehashing the same every year and putting in a lot microtransactions is what brings the company the most money (see COD sales)....

'looks at videogame library'

'has one Square Enix game called Hitman Absolution'

Yea, some restructuring might be needed.

Final Fantasy Vs XIII? :(

I just want another new good FF game. I liked 13, but not 13-2... 14 was... who even approved that out of the gate? It was nicknamed 4.0 for a reason.

and a Kingdom Hearts 3. I really would like this... and not on a damn handheld. I want to see it on the PS4.

Eventually, you might as well make a FF7 remake or HD version of it because you would make so much money that your ears would bleed from being so high up from sitting on top of your money pile. I have no interest in the game really, but a lot of other gamers do.

I would like more of your RPGs to show up on PC as well. What's the matter with you? Why release the Last Remnant and Hitman and all of these other games on Steam, but leave out other games?

Start supporting PC gamers again and I will start buying your games again.

Putting Phil Rogers in a more prominent position suggests to me that their going to put their Western games in a more prominent position.

Here's an idea - focus on fun in gaming rather than the usual 40+ hour boring turn based RPG that most gamers don't give a crap about.

I remember how people love JRPGs during the PlayStation Era such great memories. Their were some FPS games, but not as popular on console as of today maybe on the PC back then. I was such a JRPGs die hard fan and I was that type of person that refuse to play FPS games because I thought they were dumb, but once I played MW2 I got addicted lol

it was the same thing back then, I still didn't get why people love golden eye 007 on Nintendo 64 so much. To me it was just some boring shooting game but when I look at Final Fantasy it was a fantasy any kid could dream of going on an adventure fighting monster great stories and amazing music

WE WANT VERSUS 13

I was happy for a while, then I realized this is probably gonna bite many gamers in the ass. The reason we've seen all these X-2, XIII-2 etc games is because the games cost so much to produce it would be a total waste to use it's assets and engine just once.

The solution? Make games cheaper (graphics, cut-scenes etc get toned down). How to do it without gamers complaining about the quality drop? Make all future numbered Final Fantasy games for handhelds. They already did it with Dragon Quest.

I have nothing against handhelds (I own a well used PSP while waiting for something to catch my eye on the VITA), but it just wouldn't be the same.

Remember to sack anyone who thought FF14 would be fun for gamers...

I would like to see a game called Final Fantasy: Boy or Girl? They show you pictures of Final Fantasy characters and you have to choose if it's a boy or a girl. If you guess wrong, it's perma death for your toon!

you know what they can do is not expect 5 million sales per game made. plan accordingly.

Frankly, I want Kingdom Hearts 3. It's been too long.

Square's last ditch hope imo is remaking FF 1-9 with new generation graphics. Keeping the same gameplay core mechanics I can see that being a good seller for years to come. But that again is there saving grace.

*points to Nomura*

Better late than never....Oh wait, no actually it's too late for me.

Sorry squenix, you should've seen it earlier.

Maybe start by releasing games that people actually want. Fairly simple really.

Japanese ppl tend to make a lot of promises. Let's see what he will actually do.

Actually both nintendo and square enix are two peas in a pod. Aging dinosaurs of video game lore that are both past their primes.

Z3KR0M Nintendo as a system is dead . . . It's going the way of Sega it will develop and use it's first party titles on new generation of systems on other consoles.. They have lost the console war because they failed to realize the importance of third party contributors and follow the trends in gaming. In the end their first party titles couldn't save their many missteps and they have no one to look to for their failure then to themselves. It's too bad I loved them in their heyday but they thought their brand spoke for itself and didn't need to evolve and that is never a good strategy.