One assumes, almost like a mantra, that a gigantic video game company with titles like ‘Final Fantasy’ or ‘Dragon Quest’ is impossible to lose money. That it always wins, always goes up, and at most one year will have less profits. And yet, reality comes to hit in the face: Square Enix lost 140 million dollars last year alone in games that were abandoned halfway, in what they have called “extraordinary losses”. But don’t worry: they already know what they are going to do.
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Basically, the studio has promised investors, that entity that now decides the future of video games more than any creative, that they will make better decisions on which titles to invest money in from now on. In other words: more ‘Final Fantasy VII Remake’ and fewer experiments. It’s not an exaggeration: everything seems to indicate that to recover the money in a safe value, Square is going to focus on making remakes non-stop. Of course.
According to rumors, we will see in the coming years Final Fantasy IX, ‘Final Fantasy Tactics’ and ‘Dragon Quest III HD-2D remake’ in what is becoming a trend that can easily catch on. To add even more fuel to the fire, the person in charge of the ‘Dragon Quest’ franchise left his position tired of the delays and not being able to make a game properly.
It should be added that this year’s games, apart from a couple of exceptions, have sold worse than expected, starting with ‘Final Fantasy XVI’ and continuing with ‘Forspoken’, although this is largely due to the slow adoption of PS5 by players (who, by now, will be caught by PS6). What a future we have in the gaming world: Back to the past.
