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[Dark Octave]

And Hisashi Suzuki is laughing at SquareEnix over Twitter

I'm curious to see what he was saying.

 

[Cheerilee]

I'm curious to see what he was saying.

http://kotaku.com/5958425/former-square-honcho-calls-square-enix-a-complete-failure-with-no-vision

https://twitter.com/Hisashi_Suzuki/status/265704663809159169

According to Babelfish...

Market capitalization 124 billion yen. Even before the merger with Enix was 150 billion. The merger failed completely. Without a vision for the future.

 

[jaxword]

Man, Wada really did not have any idea what do with all the toys he inherited.

I think that's a major part of the mistakes right there; Hironobu wasn't the best businessman, but he had creative vision. Wada was the opposite.

 

[anaron]

Man, Wada really did not have any idea what do with all the toys he inherited.

I think that's a major part of the mistakes right there; Hironobu wasn't the best businessman, but he had creative vision. Wada was the opposite.

I think had Wada "left things alone" to some extent, the company would have been able to keep pushing out quality without Sakaguchi's departure due to the incredible talent that still remained. Unfortunately, he effectively destroyed their environment, shoved said talent into the sidelines and cut off the option to branch out and get experimental on a large scale.

 

[jcm]

Sega does not own Atlus. Sammy owns Atlus. Sammy owns Sega and gives them mostly free reign.

That's not really right. Sega Sammy is the holding company, and it wholly owns both Sega and Sammy. And then Sega wholly owns Atlus.

 

[MogCakes]

That's not really right. Sega Sammy is the holding company, and it wholly owns both Sega and Sammy. And then Sega wholly owns Atlus.

That's like...a small fish inside a big fish inside a bigger fish. And they're all alive. Business is hell weird.

 

[manzoman96]

Wonder what his reaction would be to XIII getting two sequels.

 

[Messofanego]

I'm not into this company or JPRGs but if someone wonders about why it happened, I'll just link them to this gigantic brilliantly detailed OP. Thanks, anaron and the GAFers with their insight!

 

[KoopaTheCasual]

Wonder what his reaction would be to XIII getting two sequels.

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[anaron]

Nice to see new people are still finding this.

 

[manzoman96]

Nice to see new people are still finding this.

I actually subscribed to this thread back when it was new and I almost forgot how good it was. I guess you could call this my RTTP to this thread.

Complements to you, OP

 

[anaron]

I actually subscribed to this thread back when it was new and I almost forgot how good it was. I guess you could call this my RTTP to this thread.

Complements to you, OP

Thanks!

 

[E-Cat]

They relocated their office because of a fortune teller? Funny that relocating was supposed to bring them fortune when it ended up doing the opposite.

More like tragic.

 

[DJIzana]

Yosuke Matsuda is the best thing to happen to Square Enix in a long time. Seems like he loves helping grow younger talent and knows what people want. I'm so happy that Square has a CEO like him.... as for Wada? I never did like how the man ran the business.