Square Enix Revises Earnings Forecasts For Major Loss

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Did you know that wherever you bought it from has to deal with the financials? SE still got their money from the distributor, the only thing that gets sent back to SE are the sales records, coming from the distributor's inventory. As.. any accountant should know

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This also hurts the developer though, if a game bombs and the retailers get stuck with a lot of unsold copies they will remember it. A lot of retailers got burned with FFXIV, trying to get them to stock FFXIV on PS3 if they release it at all will not be an easy task.

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Originally Posted by Rentahamster

http://www.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/11q4release.pdf

http://www.square-enix.com/eng/news/...q4earnings.pdf




Welp, there ya go.

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This is most likely Mindjack and other games that they shovelwared to us. Not just FFXIV (As it mentions consoles). Mindjack was a great idea on paper but I was probably one of 10 people who bought it. which is why in my first post in the thread I said they most likely dropped a bunch of titles they have determined to be shovelware so as to reduce the lowquality appearance of future titles and restore respect in the company.

It's time to destroy some useless projects like mindjack.. finally. :P

All the more reason to make amends with Sakaguchi-san!

But don't worry, SE still has Eidos, and Arkham City will make up for a chunk of that loss.

New info released:

http://www.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/11q4slides.pdf

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Strategic Pillar:

#2 - Becoming "Network Centric" - Revitalize our major MMO titles

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They're still gonna work on FF14. Yay!

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Originally Posted by Rentahamster

New info released:

http://www.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/11q4slides.pdf



They're still gonna work on FF14. Yay!

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Yeah I saw those slides earlier on NeoGAF, was a relief. Felt all anxious and nervous that FFXIV would get dropped.
Really do love this game and am looking forward to fun and exciting things to come. :D

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Strategic Pillar:

#2 - Becoming "Network Centric" - Revitalize our major MMO titles

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Put some FF13/Versus graphics programmers into the staff pls. :D

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Originally Posted by Munba

Put some FF13/Versus graphics programmers into the staff pls. :D

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They already did a majority of the programers for the crystal tools engine are shared.

FF13 doesn't deserve any legacy sequel

I'm pretty sure that they plan to release an expansion soon with the PS3 announcement. They can't afford to loose money.