What Japanese games they sold recently they so proud, that they wanna shed their Western side? I dont any of their games
here, either they publish or develop themselves.
The only past AAA game they've shown being able to generate sale numbers is by whoring out FFVII Remake, first on PS5, then grabbing the exclusivity money from Spic Games Store for stying exclusive there for a year before out on Steam. Not confident their own product can sell on their own merit, instead relying on money hats from Sony and Epic.
Or do they think they can do it the Konami way, making cheap knock-off versions of their recognizable IP? Like Konami's Metal Gear Survive?
vomitMake good games, the sale numbers will come. FROMSOFT proved that. A purely Japanese developer selling a Western-like game, with western-like lore and content.
12 million in under 3 weeks.
They hold valuable IPs but can't even figure out what to do with them? Remake Chrono Trigger, not the faggot attempt they did Chrono Cross. Remake Vagrant Story Or Final Fantasy Tactics, or sequel-ize them. Or remake Parasite Eve into modern survival horror like how Capcom did with RE2 Remake. They have f**king Legacy of Kain, for f**k sake! Do you know how many are waiting for either a proper remaster, remake or a bloody sequel to that game?
Sigh, sitting on a gold mine but let everything rot inside.
Crystal Dynamics had a profit margin of 3.6% in 2021 while Eidos Montreal had a profit margin of 0.65% in 2021. Square Enix as a whole had an operating income margin of 14.2% last year.