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Final Fantasy IV Official Sequel Announced. . .for CELL PHONES. Megaton, no--POOPTON
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TheJollyCorner
Member
........... wow
not nearly as funny as the Parasite Eve 3 thread, but yeah. wtf s-e??
not nearly as funny as the Parasite Eve 3 thread, but yeah. wtf s-e??
duckroll said:
Final Fantasy IV The After - Return to the Moon
- Set after FFIV ends
- Play as Theodore, a young boy who is Cecil's blood descendant
- RPG
- 2008 Feb: NTT DoCoMo (FOMA 903i models and up)
- 2008 Spring: AU (Win Brew supported models)
- Mobile phone exclusive
Jap's mob fones have crazy power, and they are ultra popular there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5sMVewA0E8
^ Video presentation of Gundam and Ridge Racer for Mobile phones.
charlequin
Banned
Fady K said:
As much as I hate this direction, I don't know about "idiots" -- if you're S-E, would you rather get 1000yen margin on sale of a physical product that you spent a bunch of money to develop and for which you have to worry about physical distribution... or 1000yen margin on a cellphone game that two interns can bang out in an afternoon, and which poses no risk involving lost sales?
charlequin
Banned
White Man said:
The terrible future we all feared has come to pass.
Kill Your Masters
Member
This is so f'ed up, just like most of Square Enix...
Howard Alan Treesong
Member
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Semantic Continuum
Member
duckroll said:
Humanity is doomed
again
MrPing1000
Member
POOPIETON sounds better.
Dragona Akehi
Retired
GSG Flash said:
Because everyone has one, and they're on 100% of the time?
Dragona Akehi
Retired
botticus said:
If it's already on, and you're on a tram... why not? Mobile games are cheap (since they're subscription) and they don't need any other hardware (even though the DS seems to be selling to every last person in Japan).
GSG Flash said:
Because there are 1 billion phones on the market?
And because totals of all consoles EVER sold (NES + SNES + PS1 + PS2 + etc.) don't even add to 1 billion?
By releasing a game on cellphones Square *theoretically* targets a 1 billion audience (if they release it outside of Japan).
By targetting the DS market Square faces what? 30M audience? That's 30 times LESS.
On top of that developing a game for cellphones costs 1/5th to 1/10th of developing a game for DS.
Business is business, dudes.
BUY A DOCOMO
OliveJuice
Member
:lol :lol :lol
:'(
Dark Octave
Banned
That's a cell phone? FFIV will be on something like this? I still wish it was on DS or PSP or better yet, PS3/360, but if it uses cell phones with this kind of power (which looks probably better than the DS), I won't mind as much. By the way, has anybody played FF: Before Crisis for the cell phone? Is it even out? If so, how was it? I can't find it on my service.
Hellsing321
Member
Reading this thread from begging to end sure is entertaining :lol
And now I'm sad :'(
Wyndstryker
Member
What are the chances that this will make it into cellphones outside japan.
Less than 0%?
Less than 0%?
OliveJuice
Member
Borys said:
What?....It says only NTT DoCoMo (FOMA 903i models and up), and Win Brew supported cells can play this game. That's not even close to a billion. I also doubt the game will ever be released outside of Japan. So there goes Europe and America. The market is much smaller then it could have been on the DS, and not everyone with a cellphone actually buys games. But, I guess as new phones come out and more people upgrade, eventually in 10-20 years there might be a billion people market.
Borys said:
Square isn't going to release it outside of Japan. Have they released any of their cellphone games outside of Japan? Fuck, have any of their cellphone games even been worth playing?
Square RAPED gaming this morning! Such a tease. They take the crown from Nintendo as most aggravating company in gaming. I really want to like your games again, Square, I really do. Why do you hate your fans?
tinfoilhatman
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thats f'ing hilarious, squrare gives up on next gen $$$ official
If not for Enix's franchises and Yosumin, I could probably never buy another Square-Enix product again and not miss out on particularly much. I think I'd feel slightly better about my life without this whole battered spouse mentality, too; even when they have good ideas these days they manage to find some way or other to bungle, botch, fumble, and muck up the execution.
Kobun Heat
Member
I woke up this morning feeling like somebody had punched me in the balls.
I didn't know why, and then I saw this thread.
I didn't know why, and then I saw this thread.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Well... they are porting the Front Mission mobile phone game to the DS... so...
Iam Canadian
and have the worst user name EVER
At this point, it's almost as if Japanese developers are just mocking us. Seriously, this kind of thing is downright cruel. We finally get a sequel to a pre-Final Fantasy VII game (and I do not like the direction that FFVII and its successors took the series, FFIX aside) and it's for a system that none of us can play. Thanks a lot, Square-Enix.
Right now, the Enix half of S-E is the only thing that keeps me buying their games.
Right now, the Enix half of S-E is the only thing that keeps me buying their games.
this is rediculous! SE used to be my number 1!! and now, i hold them even lower then EA GODF...no..no meltdowns. not worth it.
FUCKINGGODDAMNSTUPIDCLUELESSFUCKS! WHO THE FUCK COMES UP WIT THIS SHIT ? WHAT IN FUCKS NAME ARE THEY THINKING ? WHERE THE FUCK IS FF13 ??? MMMMMMMMUUUUARGHAGHRAHHGHGGHBELBLEEEERHAAGH!
Someone enlighten me, please. How exactly does the Japanese mobile games market works, most specifically, for these SE titles?
Are these games sold on the service providers' content portal or from SE's own site? Do people pay per copy, or they subscribe to a Gametap-style service?
Are these games sold on the service providers' content portal or from SE's own site? Do people pay per copy, or they subscribe to a Gametap-style service?