Square just a business?

[Zargabaath]

Or it could be the fact that some of us do not own a PSP and have no intentions of buying one and just want to be able to play a ported title on the PS3. Thats just me though. Already owning one Sony product that is superb makes it kind of hard to dish out the money for a PSP when there is only 3-4 titles that I want to actually play.

More PSPs have been bought in each region [US/Canada, Japan, & Europe/Other] than PS3s, so they are going with the system that may have a bigger base. I say "may have" because some of those purchases could be repeat buyers but the same could be applied toward the PS3. Dissidia is downloadable via the PN so it can be played on the PS3 & I expect Duodecim to follow the same route. It still could be played with other players via ad-hoc but a PS3 isn't mobile hence why I said they should incorporate a better multi-player system.

As for SE going with the PSP because of the bigger base, I doubt they solely, if it had any factor, chose the PSP because it could yield more money but because Japan is a nation geared towards handhelds. Consoles aren't the hot thing over there.

Back on topic. Square is DEAD. That is a simple fact. Square died the day the merger went through with Enix. Hence the move over from Squaresoft to SquareEnix.

Square as most of us knows it has been dead for around 10 years now.

Perhaps it wasn't the merger that killed the old Square but the departures or promotion of certain members. I included promotions because the last game Kitase directed was FFVIII, for example.

Now on to being really on topic; SE is definantly a company now. Now doubts about it. SE is about profit.

I think all companies care & are about profit. Otherwise they are no longer in business & who wants to fail? Who wants to be out of a job, unless they are well-off and don't need the money? There is a balance between understanding their consumer-base and what they want to make. Perhaps a good example from SE would be Unlimited Saga. I would think they made the game as they wanted and it was panned by the west. Though SaGa games have always been more receptive in Japan, including Unlimited Saga, than in the west. A dozen or so releases like U.Saga the west may not have wanted anymore games from SE. Then we wouldn't be getting any games. Balance.

To me, Square really became a joke after FFXI. That was really the biggest disappointment in my eyes, since it appeared that they went the WoW route of sucking people in and just taking their money on a monthly basis.

For clarification: are you saying that Square went the MMO route or that they were influenced by WoW?

With all of the FFVII titles, books, movies and reincarnations, it only seems to further hammer the point that Square has lost sight of what really matters, has become far too profit driven. That game was fully explained to me in the 5 minute cutscene in Shinra Mansion (as well as when Tifa rescues Cloud from Lifestream), and it was all I needed to know on the matter. They were just invented, because without them, there's really no point to making a whole new game. To me, that's atrocious; completely inventing a new canon to the story, and then making sure everyone not involved in VII, dies, so there are no loose ends. What's the point?

As we know people have been clamoring for a FFVII remake for some time. That game is one of Square's most popular games so instead of remaking it they decided to fill out the story of that world. There are people who want to know what happened after FFVII or what about before the events of the game? So they expanded the FFVII universe.

From my perspective, Crisis Core and DoC make the Sephiroth and the event Final Fantasy VII a side-story. Genesis was the main villian in CC & the secret ending of DoC Genesis awakens and tells the incapacitated Weiss that they are not yet done with their work. Unless wants to leave that hanging, their is going to be another release in the FFVII universe.