Square Enix makes some of the best JRPG's in the gaming sphere. But the company itself seems to be at odds with itself in its direction for the future.
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
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
TNS - NCSoft CEO admitted that AI is rapidly becoming a core part of game development, but he added that it cannot replace what makes games fun.
To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
Like I said before they focus to much on FF and let the other games left to dry. They released a lot of games and most of them didn't get marketing at all. Some of them needed a little bit more budget. Also there expectations are a problems, we dont know how much there games actually sold but apparently they have high expectations. Like lower the expectations dont set it up so high that will sell around 5 mil sold.
To continue my rant from yesterday, Square is not looking so good. They don't have faith in the Final Fantasy brand. FF16 preorders in Japan are tracking below FF7 and 15. It is clear that Square is hoping the west will carry the sales but with no day 1 launch on steam or Xbox, It not looking so good. This isn't the PS1 or 2 generation anymore. You can't get away with releasing an AAA exclusive on one platform and having strong sales. You need PC and Xbox to boost numbers. Square has lowkey damaged the expansion of the FF brand.
FF15 sold 2 million copies on Xbox. Imagine if Square bought FF14 to XB1. That is easily an extra hundreds of thousands of subs and loyalty/nostalgia for a new gen of fans to the FF brand. Like I said yesterday, Square wants to chase short term profits instead of focusing on building long term growth. The CEO over there is so short sighted and he is going to destroy that company
Sooner or later Sony will acquire Square.
At a guess, making games ?
xenogears remake, when?