Cornbread78
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LOL, awesome.... Rough life for some huh? Hey, make them a pitch, ya never know.
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Square Enix shares their new plan for what their Japanese and Western studios make
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LOL, awesome.... Rough life for some huh? Hey, make them a pitch, ya never know.
Indiana Jones?
Cornbread78
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It's not SE's fault, it takes like sixty million to build and market a AAA game, and that's being extremely thrifty. If you can't sell three million, there's no point existing. It's worthless for the full price console game market.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
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Nah, I'd be scared to death of working for SE in their current state.
HamPster PamPster
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Looking forward to the PS1 catalog being ported to mobile
KyanMehwulfe
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Wish they'd publisher a new Kane & Lynch 3, Sleeping Dogs 2, and make sure that Deus Ex Universive game design is more Human Revolution and less Triad Wars
it's odd as a guy who grew up playing FFs since the SNES, that I would barely associate Square with black mages and chocobos anymore and more with shootouts in Chinese cities.
it's odd as a guy who grew up playing FFs since the SNES, that I would barely associate Square with black mages and chocobos anymore and more with shootouts in Chinese cities.
Whose putting a gun to their heads saying all the games that come from Eidos have to be AAA titles? We also have no idea what the budget for most of their games are, which is essential in this conversation if we're trying to judge which IPs have value or not.
For all we know the games coming from Eidos are profitable, but they're leaning on those games heavily to fund their biggest AAA titles such as Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts 3.
Cornbread78
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Hey, somebody has to do a good job for them right now!
you shut that whore mouth of yours.. I am cry...
Did you read the OP? This thread is about SE announcing their plans for their studios, and guess what their plan is for Eidos? AAA and smaller online focused games.
DiipuSurotu
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So instead of focusing on just the big three (KH, FF, DQ), Square Enix will now revert to the Squaresoft model of producing a few big titles and many mid-size titles like Threads of Fate, SaGa Frontier, Einhänder, Bushido Blade, etc.? That sounds pretty good.
After seeing Triad Wars and Just Cause 3, "smaller online focused games" sounds a lot like free to play or something of that nature. Sure, those devs aren't Eidos, and they could be making those decisions on their own, but anything that isn't a time exclusive will probably have micro transactions and be very different when it comes to design structure.
You even pointed out how odd it is to pay for timed exclusivity, why should Microsoft or Sony pay for Deus Ex or Hitman when they are probably modestly profitable but aren't huge hits? They are valuable IPs, but they aren't heavy hitters.
If I had to guess, Deus Ex will be a timed exclusive, while Hitman will be a AAA game with tons of microtransactions. Absolution already tested the waters of a social Hitman game. While Deus Ex was released for ipad and had microtransactions.
AAA if they can get someone else to pay the bills.
nckillthegrimace
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I don't understand why SE Japan is wasting time making any console games. They're horrible at it. They should be making handheld games and porting those games to mobile after a few months. Save money on development and double-dip. SE West should be the one making the big console games because they actually know how to do that.
Miles Quaritch
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What does this mean for the next Deus Ex?
A microtransaction riddled mess like Just Cause 3 is shaping up to be or can we at least expect that to remain somewhat traditional?
A microtransaction riddled mess like Just Cause 3 is shaping up to be or can we at least expect that to remain somewhat traditional?
Miles Quaritch
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Someone needs to swoop in and buy the Soul Reaver/Legacy of Kain IP before they get any ideas...
They did report very healthy financial results thanks to their MMOs and mobile titles such as Dragon Quest Monsters Super Light, so this does seem very business-savy (if not very GAF-friendly) approach.
I'd love to see the return of the mid-tier console games, but it really does not seem that there is a market for them anymore. So they are going for mobile for steady revenue stream with hits like DQMSL, and then big bets on console in the West (with other people's money?) to see if they can get the 6-10 million copy-seller.
That's my take at least.
I'd love to see the return of the mid-tier console games, but it really does not seem that there is a market for them anymore. So they are going for mobile for steady revenue stream with hits like DQMSL, and then big bets on console in the West (with other people's money?) to see if they can get the 6-10 million copy-seller.
That's my take at least.
I want someone to buy them completely. MS as they have the resources to do the IP justice, or Bethesda as they have Arkane. SE will never sell to a rival publisher though.
IdreamofHIME
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Dont fall into that trap man, you just keep making what youre making and let them throw their cash into the shredder.
LiveFromKyoto
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I don't care as long as they do Deus Ex right.
shark sandwich
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I wishThis would definitely be the ideal situation... but it probably means just more focus on mobile and less traditional Japanese console/handheld games.
I'm just hoping that "new RPG studio" thing they talked about a while ago leads to something good. And that they throw tri-Ace a few bones here and there to do something other than being codemonkeys on Lightning games.
qualitydisc
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Hopefully this is still a thing
Neogaf resident Falk who works with S-E on music hinted that Uematsu might be involved with this. Please jeebus let this be true.
shinra-bansho
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So about what PazuDora earns for GungHo in like a month or something...