Square Enix Revises Earnings Forecasts For Major Loss

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Actually... SquEnix kinda had this one coming, and it's really the producer's faults for the disasters of XIII and XIV in particular. Even worse, with the horrific reaction to XIII, they insist on TWO sequels for it and they made a Dissidia title FEATURING XIII characters. What SquEnix doesn't grasp so well is that FF Fan and Anime Fan as stereotypes don't cross contaminate as much as they hoped, and while the corn-ball anime jRPG that was XIII was ambitious in it's own rights, it was a FAILURE, and trying to promote it anymore is just insulting to those of us whom tried to like it, but just found it to be a FAILURE, and got over it. SE has lost a massive portion of it's demographic because it has abandoned us, much in the same fashion as CAPCOM's Inafune, and they could

I was under the assumption that even though the majority of people disliked XIII, it was still a financial success. Besides, the other XIII games (Agito which is now Type-0, and Versus XIII) are not sequels, but merely based off the fabula nova engine. XIII-2 is likely proof enough that XIII turned a profit, no? And although I've not seen figures for the units sold/shipped for Dissidia, its a huge stretch to say they detracted players by including ONE character from XIII.

And I'm pretty sure that this article is not anything new. Didn't they revise their earnings for the last fiscal year shortly after XIV's release, noting they would take a major loss? Yoshi-P himself discussed this in a letter, saying XIV's near future is safe because SE independently funds this (maybe all?) project rather than seek investments externally.

EDIT: Here's some financial info pulled from wiki:

In March 2010, Square Enix stated that Final Fantasy XIII was the fastest-selling title in the franchise's history.By April of the same year, American game sales for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 reached an estimated 800,000 and 500,000 units respectively. As of May 18, 2010, Final Fantasy XIII had shipped 5.5 million copies worldwide.

I wouldn't call that a failure