Hitman RPG

the only thing new that "they" put out in was Last Remnant and TWEWY(Jupiter Games helped)

Anything else they put out was either port/spinoff/remake(quite a few)

said ports and remakes where mostly handled by other studios.

Spinoff's were mostly in house(CC:FFVII and Dissidia), mostly.

anyway

The Last Remnant, TWEWY, Song Summoner and I think some spin offs count as new, like Chocobo Tales and Dissidia may be an FF but it's a different concept and style. And there's the new game Blood of Bahamut although that may be tied with Final Fantasy.

And the majority of the games they develop stay in Japan(like the arcade games), the majority we see(assuming you're a westerner) are either franchise games or are only published by Square Enix.

My point is though that their new IPs and original ideas don't do well and that goes back many years, ever heard of the bouncer? it's a decent game not great but not bad either did patheticly.

EDIT: I do agree that they seem to be developing less and less and publishing more and more though but it seems to help the smaller studios so that's good.

Great looking game but was to short and too repetitive, Decent indeed but like i've stating in other articles when you have 10 year old ports outselling your new IP's(average at best, Go SO4 for breaking that cycle) you need to seriously re-think the future of your company.

Well there aim is to appeal more to Western gamers so I doubt they'll mess about too much, although they may let 'em use the Crystal Tools engine for future games(Deus Ex 3 is already in development right?).

Indeed it is already in development. Details are very sparse but it's at least confirmed for PC so far. And you're right about the Crystal Tools thing. Specially since they had been (pardon the pun) retooled for multiplatform development.

They'll be remaining Eidos and Square Enix it's just that on all the legal bits it will claim that Eidos is property of Square Enix or something. They're remaining separate like how you don't get Final Fantasy: Space Invaders(which now that I think about it could be awesome). I'm referring to the fact they own Taito by the way.;)

@Tony P:Oh yes thanks for the bubbles and the compliments.

@V: I think Square Enix could publish it on their own now anyways but if not then yes it does make sense.

Ah okay, I thought their might be a crossbreeding of games and different games coming about due to this. If their staying two different companies then that's cool to. Tough some ideas I'd really kind of like to see pan out :). A platforming Final Fantasy or something? That hopefully won't be to short..