It’s no secret that Square Enix has delivered many great games, from the beloved Kingdom Hearts series to the highly-debated PS3 and PS4 Final Fantasy games. Things do seem fine on the surface, and in some studios they are, Eidos Montreal has been working well on the Tomb Raider games. However, concerning the main branches Square Enix Co.Ltd (the Main Tokyo team) and Square Enix Osaka, behind the scenes from 2006, things were imploding.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
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I can’t believe this article detailed Square Enix’s history of long development periods and yet never brought up the title that started this predicament, Final Fantasy XII.
Stop that turned based thing non sense, the problem wasn't ever about turned based, the real problem is managment thats what ruined these games. SE focused on FFXIII trilogy(nobody asked for and sequels sales are pathetic) and ditching games like Agito, KH and Versus.
What really happened is Wada and Tabata fault. Wada is the one who is responsible of assigns most of Versus XIII team to help out XIII disaster failure progress. And Tabata was not helping by taking 5 years to finish PSP game that even never released outside Japan. Nomura never got chance to have full development greenlight which totally made things worse. Once Tabata assigned SE went full production so Tabata scratched everything and showed us 2013 trailer which isn't delivered and by his medicore touches he ruined it.
I know some Tabata fanboy will outrage me but these are facts search up for articles and you will find how Tabat was lying and creating waste of potentials contents all along until he resigned and made thongs even worse with lame Episodic DLC system which eventually it cancelled.