It really gets to me when people start saying Square Enix is a really bad partnership and that the merger made the Final Fantasy series go down. What those people do not realise is that the merger has nothing to do with any games that have been released so far!

FF in all its incarnations have been dealt with by Square's own staff and none from Enix. FFXII is made by the group of people who made FF Tactics. The merger has hardly been given enough time to showcase any co-developed games between staff from either company. All the games released were planned before the merger and had staff assigned to them, so where does Enix feature in all this?

In the current development world there is no room for small developers anymore. Namco-Bandai, Square Enix and Sega Sammy, with all the development costs it will be too expensive for profitability. The combined talents from all these studios should bring around some great games and ultimately this is what the casual or dedicated gamer wants.