Quote Originally Posted by Rentahamster View Post
Whatever the case may be, it all pretty much comes down to the fact that the development teams over at Square Enix are horribly managed and terribly unoptimized. It takes them 5 years to make a so-so game whereas other developers take 2 years to make an awesome game.

Given the vast amount of resources at SE's disposal, they should be many times more productive than they are and than they have been up until now. However, they are not. And like Wada said in his "I'm sorry we just lost 12 billion yen" report, it'll take at least 1 to 2 years to fix.
The only relevant fact here is that they had huge trouble with developing crystal tools which caused their games to be delayed significantly. XIII-2 is xoming out in 2 years as opposed to what, 6-7 for XIII? That's what happens when the game engine you develop for actually works like it should.

XIV is in the frontline of their rehauling dev- and management process plans as well, so I have no idea what this outburst has to do with anything. Unless you want to beat a dead horse, in which case have fun.