Square Enix posts $26 million quarterly loss

Is it really that hard to retry the old formulas like FF VII, VIII, IX or even do a badass HD remake of all of them. See how your sales do then Squeenix!

"Fifteen" is the answer to Square's problems.

The market went to shooter games, and left the turn base games behind, leaving a window of opportunity.  Instead of seizing the non competitive market and turning out a profit they followed the rest of the sheep.  Here?s a wired idea, give the people that are paying for games something they really want like FFVII revamped.  Or follow other big titles that worked in the past, Shadow Hearts, Legend of the Dragoons.  It?s kind of cliché but make fun games and people will play, until then I?ll sit here playing my Playstation 2 playing cartoon games like Disgaea. 

"The Group views this change as an opportunity to capture new profit sources, and is making every effort to establish its profit base through expansion of content and services that conform to emerging customer needs, and launch of full-scale commercial services for major MMO titles."

Well, that just proves my suspicions...Squenix is a dying company.  MMOs are a dead-end, selling digital crack to crack addicts - they have to have more and more to get the same high as the first hit, eventually it stops satisfying them, and they're left with nothing except their craving for more.  Never shipping a finished product, never fixing all the bugs, and never giving the public a product they can keep forever.  RIP Final Fantasy, it's been wonderful (then Squenix crapped out FF13 and killed the series).*sigh*  First they came for my space-flight sims, and I said nothing.  Then they came for my city- and nation-building sims, and I said nothing.  Now they're coming for my RPGs...

Squeenix... you're becoming the next Capcom. Not listening to your fans results to those things. Release Type-0 in English and don't focus too much on Nintendo consoles/portables.

Bring Versus XIII you fucktards, its the only thing anyone w2ants to see SE dev. 

Ohhhhhh how I hope Tomb Raider is good.

Brendan looks like Alan Harper.

On-topic I wish for the worst for SE. Just so the only people I care about who still work in there can make their own companies seperated from Kitase, Toriyama, etc.

individually square and enix have made some incredible work, now they dont know what they are doing anymore

All Square has to do is crank out Final Fantasy Games and new IPS (or keep releasing old IPS) like they did in the late 90's.  Look at this timeline

1997-- Final Fantasy VII

1999-- Final Fantasy VIII

2000-- Final Fantasy IX

2001-- Final Fantasy X

2006-- Final Fantasy Xii

2009-- Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy 7 and 10 were released within 4 years of each other.  By contrast, 10 through 13 were released within 9 years of each other (which is one less game).  The longer development cycle obviously hasn't produced much better games either.  

Bring Final Fantasy back to its roots.

Well what games have they released in the first Q? A sequel to the worst FF game ever made and....... I can't even think of anything else they released on the plus side they've got some good looking games coming out hitman and the FF10 update

If this news is in any way surprising to any of you then we are all going to die. Square Enix as a publisher is not too shabby given Deus Ex 3, Tactics Ogre: LUCT, and a few others. But as a developer? SE is a lot like a fart, it is noticeable at first but quickly disappears into the couch cushions and you might get a hint of it later but it is never as good.

I'm glad they're still making the Dragon Quest games in the classic JRPG way. God knows Final Fantasy has gone down the proverbial crapper.

Comon SE, I still love yas, Give us Some Legacy of Kain and some FF Versus plzkthx!

Kingdom Hearts 3D. Nuff said.

SE was better when it was S and E separate.

YES!! Teach SE a Lesson Stop making Sequesl to Crappy Ass Games and Bring out Versus & Final Fantasy XV. Stop BS with spinoffs and DLC Practices, you only lose more an more fans the longer you drag out Weak Ass Games and Prolong Games People Want.

It would be interesting how the current quarter will fare with major releases like Dragon Quest X.

I want that Tomb Raider game :(

SE needs to put their minds to work on developing new IPs.  Milking Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, etc. forever isn't going to be successful.  Put on your thinking caps and come up with something fresh and compelling!

Note to Squenix: Next time, DON"T make a sequel (possibly 2) to the worst FF title to date. Its not a hard concept........

Deus Ex 3 next??     crickets??? damn

Blood omen 3??  did I hear a mouse?  crickets?? damn....

Thief 4???   more crickets damn....

IDK, joking aside I'd rather steal stuff from rich people than raid tombs....I'd rather see the next step for Deus Ex whatever it will be or the next Blood Omen, forget Raziel, Kain is where it's at.....he's the vampire of vampires in games aside from Vampire The Masquerade that is....

I got nothing against Lara Croft or her games it's just we've had more than enough of them this gen....at least I have.

The only games I like to play from SE are the Dragon Quest games, the rest of what SE puts out doesn't intrest me. If SE made more intresting games they would be doing better.

and i wonder why