![]() While Square Enix shows up 3 times a year to say "We fail at absolutely everything! Continuously! We lose money like crazy! Nothing we make sells well! We can't plan! We don't understand our market! We just sold half our company because we don't even know what to do with it!" WTF would Sony, or anyone really, buy that. The one thing that remains hilarious through all this is the constant refrain from people "Sony should buy Square-Enix" Say you got it from an "insider" with "credible information." Lets just write the news article now and get it done with: "Square-Enix says FFXVI Failed to Meet Sales Expectations" Just post the story now and we can get it out of the way for later in the year. No matter what they make it "fails to meet expectations." Yet they seem to not consider their expectations are simply unbased in reality? Has Square-Enix released any game in the past decade that actually did meet sales expectations? Big, AAA games, small AA games, highly marketed games, games shadow dropped with no marketing at all, JRPGs, Western games. The open world action RPG clearly had a big budget, but it was met with lukewarm reviews and, for the most part, player apathy when it launched back in January. Meanwhile, Forspoken is called out by name in the report - but we all could have predicted that. The highly rated Tactics Ogre: Reborn might be on the list as well. It's assumed that he's referring to the likes of The DioField Chronicle, Valkyrie Elysium, Star Ocean: The Divine Force, and maybe even Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion. Matsuda says that "many of the new small and mid-sized titles we launched this year did not perform as well as we had expected". The company's stance on the matter is revealed in its latest business briefing (as reported by RPG Site), with current president Yosuke Matsuda delivering the disappointing news. In news that's certain to shock absolutely no one, Forspoken - along with the glut of 'smaller' games that Square Enix released last year - did not meet the publisher's sales expectations.
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