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[MrHicks]

about time
dude sucked major donkey penis

 

[Frumix]

1000 years of lightning.

Isn't Versus his brain child and Lightning is just kind of an obligation?

 

[Synless]

I'd say I'm shocked, but I'm not. Long time coming in my opinion.

 

[ULTROS!]

No wonder the line up suddenly got better this year.

About time, honestly.

 

[Persona86]

No XIII-4?

Toriyama will be very upset.

 

[UrbanRats]

"Major console games" being Tomb Raider? That was doing well in the first weeks, IIRC.

 

[reptilescorpio]

Any idea which titles underperformed ?

Sleepy Dogs was okay in the end, not amazing but they were happy in the end.
Hitman didn't do well if I recall correctly.
Tomb Raider should have done well going by initial sales.

 

[Samurai_Heart]

Hopefully Square-Enix becomes better..hopefully...

 

[-tetsuo-]

Re sign the Gooch, make Matsuno head of everything creative and they will be good.

 

[AOC83]

Toriyama will be very upset.

Toriyama should be next.

 

[Yoshichan]

Woooooow. Did NOT expect this...

 

[Grampasso]

It was about time! Maybe they'll start making good games again (at least the square part. Enix is fine)

 

[duckroll]

What's the over/under on Matsuda's prospects? Do we know much about him? I haven't followed Square Enix for ages.

He's probably just the acting CEO for now. Someone has to take over once Wada steps down. If they're serious about total management reform, they'll probably find someone else in the next few months imo.

 

[mocolostrocolos]

Toriyama to be the next CEO.

 

[Kouriozan]

Now it's time to announce Bravely Default, Type 0, Versus XIII and those 4 Dragon Quest games(Slime 3, Monster Joker 3DS, DQ VII and DQ X).

 

[Pooya]

Any idea which titles underperformed ?

they have been saying that in all the quarters last year, games like Sleeping Dogs we know are one of them and probably Hitman because they never mentioned its sales. I imagine it must be soon to say for Tomb Raider yet, that's not regarding sales for this quarter but the whole fiscal year I think.

 

[Bruno MB]

 

[Eusis]

What's the over/under on Matsuda's prospects? Do we know much about him? I haven't followed Square Enix for ages.

This is what's important. I'm more optimistic for this than EA (EA either very quickly went sour or was sour all along, and seems to actually be in a position where they HAVE to be the way they are, but Squaresoft AND Enix were great for a long time and still weren't half bad even this gen relative to other companies), but without knowing about this guy I'm still weary.

 

[Auto_aim1]

The company was without a proper direction for a few years now. Anyone know what Yosuke Matsuda was doing before this?

 

[Sandfox]

Given the problems we know the company has I really don't see how a new CEO would be able to fix things without going big in iOS or something. It'll be interesting to see though.

 

[mocolostrocolos]

Ya te gustaría xD

 

[AOC83]

That would've been my impression as well, but I wasn't sure if they released something else in that time frame.

That´s probably the problem. They are pumping shitloads of money in stuff like FF XIV without getting it finished.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

More IOS/social games fro everyone. Please be exited.

 

[plantedunicorn]

Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping dogs weren't really blockbusters but just wondering would Square Enix be in a worse shape without Eidos to rely on?

 

[Casimir]

Toriyama should be next.

He should have been first.


Seriously, someone at square needs to get a psychiatrist to help him reign in his obsession with dragging out the dead horse that is Lightning.

 

[Dresden]

Phil Fish for CEO

 

[Dice]

He was the guy who showed up at the PS4 event, right?

Please be excited.

 

[shinra-bansho]

Seems appropriate.

Anyway, it's a bit weird to revel in someone's resignation. On the flipside, I'm sure Wada's in no dire straits.

 

[scytheavatar]

What's the over/under on Matsuda's prospects? Do we know much about him? I haven't followed Square Enix for ages.

He was in charge of Taito Corporation, considering how Arcades were mentioned as a big reason for SE's losses things aren't looking good ATM.

 

[Salsa]

this makes me more excited about the future than anything else

I really dont care about Square anymore (besides their publishing wing). Here's hoping they can change that.

 

[Defuser]

Megaton. I wonder who will take over the CEO position......hopefully someone more capable.

 

[BocoDragon]

Good riddance.

Want to believe that this will fix everything.

 

[Verendus]

First piece of big news from SE. More to come soon. I have to say, these are exciting times.

 

[BurnOutBrighter]

And to bring them back from the brink of extinction... a host of new free-to-play games with pay-to-win microtransactions!

 

[jiggle]

what? not enough ppl bought ATB iap?

 

[Haunted]

Does this mean more or less iOS games?

Considering they're citing bad console gaming sales as a reason for the revision, plan major restructuring and have seemingly written off/shuttered games in development worth around 6 billion Yen... we'll get more mobile games out of them in the future.

 

[clay_ghost]

Oh yeah =D Hope for better games now.

 

[ULTROS!]

He was the guy who showed up at the PS4 event, right?

Those are fake Hashimoto and godly Hashimoto.

 

[Antagon]

He's probably just the acting CEO for now. Someone has to take over once Wada steps down. If they're serious about total management reform, they'll probably find someone else in the next few months imo.

I've heard that John Riccitiello is available.

 

[maniac-kun]

Does that mean less FF and more new IPs?

 

[reptilescorpio]

That´s probably the problem. They are pumping shitloads of money in stuff like FF XIV without getting it finished.

Along with Versus 13 I can see FF14 being a huge money pit considering they aren't making any money on either of them.

 

[shink]

More browser games for Japan?

Will be interesting to see the direction of S-E after another person takes the position.

 

[Black Republican]

What can i say

 

[Tenki]

Maybe the new CEO will bring Bravely Default to the West!

Spoiler

Who am I kidding :lol

 

[Hellix]

Matsuda will do what's right.

 

[Road]

Any idea which titles underperformed ?

everyone.gif

The ship millions of their games, but when their price drop by $10 every week it apparently doesn't work...

 

[Korigama]

Long overdue.

 

[Matsuno]

Shinji Hashimoto to be the next CEO, are you excited?

 

[Pooya]

about Yosuke Matsuda:

 

[lazybones18]

Matsuda will do what's right.

http://i.imgur.com/R5rBbyI.gif[IMG][/QUOTE]

Matsuda, you idiot!