Sqare Enix opens new studio specialize in console dev

Square Enix officially opens up a new studio that specializes in developing RPGs for consoles only.

Will we be seeing more RPGs from Square this generation?

http://gematsu.com/2014/09/square-enix-opening-new-console-rpg-studio

i always get so excited to see the squeenix logo... as publisher.

if they are actually behind the making of the game the squeenix logo is like a warning.

For some reason I really love the position names.

Oh joy. Even more garbage from this joke of a studio.

Square Enix needs to finish the remaining remasters from its glory days then crawl in a ditch and die.

If they pulled Hiroyuki Ito out of their basement he could fill about half of those.

Square Enix actually has money left?

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um.....I'm confused here Square enix has almost always been exclusively console or portable anyways....Cellphones? these are relatively new mediums for square enix they've not released many games of them. PC? the support for the PC arena has always been anemic for square enix.

What is the point of opening a console studio when you were always a console studio?

I would like to see a new RPG IP for the PS4/XB1/PSVita/3DS. They are so slow at making new games though, so I don't expect anything out of this studio until Fall 2016 at the earliest.

They want people specializing in Unity, which is used to make small, lightweight indie (or indie-like) games, so if you are expecting the next Final Fantasy from this studio, you'll be extremely disappointed.

I'd expect something more like Child of Light, which would honestly be okay with me.

@WilliamRLBaker: What was the last console rpg they actually made? FF13-3?

SE has really been developing handheld games almost exclusively for a long while now. What these assholes need to do is listen to their fans screaming and yelling "give us final fantasy 15 and kingdom hearts 3!!!" It's only been 5-10 years since the last full release RPGs from the company. People have been begging for kingdom hearts 3 for 10 years now. Dumbass SE skipped that title for an entire generation of consoles.

Once again. Those stuck up pricks just need to actually give their fans what we've been asking for for the last 10 years.

After they accepted the Tomb Raider exclusivity deal with Microsoft, I no longer support them.

after from softwore accepted the bloodborne exclusivity with sony, i will no longer support them

You must not support a ton of other publishers as well then.

What would be cool is if they could open a studio that specializes in releasing games.

@Telekill: why?

Seems like a pitiful excuse.

Bro, of all the legit reasons to not buy shit from SE anymore, this is the one you pick?

To all those that don't like my post. Tomb Raider was and is a favorite series of mine. They spit in my face for the second time. I won't support them because of that and will only buy their products used.

If you feel that you've been slighted from some bullshit third party exclusivity agreement, I encourage you to boycott whatever developer it is. Not giving these companies our money is the only way for our opinions to be heard.

I guess lol.

I would think that the fact that SE slowly pumped out a AAA turd, followed it up with 2 sequels that nobody wanted, keeps on sleeping on IPs that people do want and has been spending the better part of a decade screwing around with what looks to be another mediocre FF title would have been enough to give up on them.

Timed exclusive though? That shit happens all the time and it's not like SE hasn't been known to shift "loyalties" before.

@Telekill: in what way did they spit in your face?

Why care? They already took money from MS? Some here said it wont go towards rise of the tomb raider. Aren't Square the evils now?

@Telekill: To all those that don't like my post. Tomb Raider was and is a favorite series of mine. They spit in my face for the second time. I won't support them because of that and will only buy their products used.

If you feel that you've been slighted from some bullshit third party exclusivity agreement, I encourage you to boycott whatever developer it is. Not giving these companies our money is the only way for our opinions to be heard.

I agree that is your only action. But spit in your face? No they didn't. Did you think they had a journal of who bought that series on Ps, PC, or xbox? Grow up. Its business. And Sony did the similar with bloodborne. "oh but its a new ip, funded by Sony" bullshit. It plays, sounds, looks like the Souls games, is made by the same creator. This is business. Get emotions out of it.

@cainetao11: I'll do as I wish. Deal.

I guess you didn't get the memo, but Sony pulled the same exclusivity stunt back in the PS1 era with, you guessed it, the Tomb Raider series.

lol at only hating on them now.

You must hate From software then over the BloodBorne deal.

There's like three people in here comparing the Tomb Raider 2 deal to Bloodborne, there are probably other examples but that one is incorrect.

Sony Japan co-developed the Demon's Souls IP with From Software, the spiritual successors went multiplat. They are developing another new IP together. The series probably wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for Sony, or at the very least it would be radically different.

The same can't be said about Tomb Raider and MS. MS needed to get a leg up on the competition and something to go against Uncharted, so they made a deal. That's business.

Oh, and lol PC left out again.

Can you imagine the amount of clunge a title like "Battle Director" would get ya, awwww yeah.

Ah you're the same Telekil from the Bungie forums who want's MS to go out of business because of the Tomb Raider deal, i thought you were a System Warrior after reading that tripe, haha.

It's not really, was exclusive, went multiplat, latest installment is exclusive again. Simples.

Mobile ports inc.

Make another Chrono (Cross or Trigger) game SE, you know you want to unless you hate money being thrown at you.

probably using the money they got from MS :p

Hopefully this new studio can find a way to finish FFXV already. 8 years coming up on 9 years is way to long for a game to be in development hell. I also expect a Wii U SE game.

Remember this tech demo? Remember how, after it was shown, people really expected SE to remake FF7 with modern graphics? It never happened. It never will. Square Enix doesn't give a shit about their fans.

That's kind of a silly reason.

That, and a bunch of other IP's. Jeez, this hypocrisy around money-hatting needs to die.

Finally, sound like a smaller funded project that idn't indy.