>Square at early 2000s: Nearly went bankrupt because of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within being a huge budget movie that tried really hard to appeal to the Western market and flopping really hard
>Square now: "Let's do it again!"
>Square at early 2000s: Nearly went bankrupt because of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within being a huge budget movie that tried really hard to appea...
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Her teeth are fucking disgusting, did seriously none of these retards think to maybe fix them up in their gorillion dorrar game?
>The Spirits Within premiered in Los Angeles on July 2, 2001, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 11. It received mixed reviews, but was widely praised for its characters' realism. Due to rising costs, the film greatly exceeded its original budget toward the end of production, reaching a final cost of $137 million (equivalent to $190 million in 2021); it grossed only $85 million at the box office. The film has been called a box office bomb and is blamed for the demise of Square Pictures.
History repeats itself
Square is making a fat profit this year, Xbox chud.
>Square is making a fat profit this year
>Source: My ass
once again squeenix is getting carried by xiv chud cultists kek
Remember that the Avengers game flopped and made Square Enix lose more money than Flopspoken.
>Remember that the Avengers game flopped
Right. I forgot that. What was the game's budget?
google says it ranged between 170m and 190m
WTF! And they decided to do it again?
They had already decided to do it again years ago
Forshitten was the byproduct of those project athia tech demos from years ago
People need to stop expecting Shit Squeenix to do anything but fail.
If it's AAA and doesn't have Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy in the title, it's going to flop. That's all they have that can sell, other than small low budget stuff like Triangle Strategy or old FF/Ogre remakes.
>Kingdom Hearts
Does this belong on the list after 3?
Since when did it flop
It wasn't a flop? Then why is nobody talking about it anymore?
That's not sarcasm.
>why is nobody talking about it anymore
Did REmake 2 and Devil May Cry 5 flop just because nobody talks about it anymore
Fucking moron.
3 was the best selling game in the series
Main FF games don't even sell so well after FF10. It's mostly the FF Online games that print money and some certain spinoffs.
15 sold well despite being dogshit, 16 likely will as well, though it being PS5 exclusive for a year+ is gonna slow things down.
>15 sold well
Not so well for its big budget.
The dumb thing is we know they have two, maybe three big DQ games in the works for the last two years now, and chose to work on this.
It's complete business suicide to work on a game like this that has nothing going for it, spend this much of your networth, and get nothing, when you have multiple franchises that are incredibly well known.
They can't ride on funds from mobile games forever. Especially considering FFVII TFS was shut down barely a year in, and that new KH mobile game is very likely going the same way. Hell the CURRENT one has outright ended too, since they painted themselves into a corner.
>It looks like the total cost of the game is closer to $170m-$190m given they only expense 70% of cost in the [quarter] plus marketing costs
Tbf they got all debts from that paid off selling those studios to embracer so it was no big deal for them ig.
>selling those studios
You mean shutting them down?
I will never understand those shitshows with costume retards.
And they made record profits that year despite that.
FFBE and WOTVFF are drugs that SE junkies can't live without
no. what avengers game??
Why don't they just understand and accept that they have an entirely decent sized following in the west already for their very anime Jap style fantasy games and keep fucking doing that.
Cuz they keep fucking said Japanese games franchises with shitty localizations (like Live-A-Live), shitty remakes (like FF7 Remake), smartphone games and overpriced ports of SNES games.
They'll finish themselves off with NFT and blockchain games next year.
Thank god they sold off Deus Ex franchise
Just came in here to say I'm almost done with my Hard mode playthrough of Hi-Fi Rush. It's not bad, although I've had some audio de-sync issues during cutscenes.
If you had 100M and you were tasked with "appealing to the western market" what would you make? Keep in mind it has to be profitable.
100 sequels to Horizon Zero Dawn
>appeal to Western market
>Has to be profitable
I would tell them to pick one.
An Ubisoft game with character creator.
Magitech rpg with guns that shoot spells
>100,000,000 for this shit
There's absolutely no fucking way this pile of trash cost that much to develop when the game itself is ridiculously mundane, lacks content and feels unfinished.
Tech aside, I'd imagine hiring actors, advertising/influencer shit and all that time spent on world building (not even good world building) tanks a good chunk of budget
Diversity is not cheap, Anon. Women don't do anything in tech except set money on fire.
Spirits Within was better than Advent Children.
Spirits Within was a good movie and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
Its only 50mil in pre-covid dollars
What in the fuck were they thinking honestly? When will we finally get past this female empowerment and must be main character, especially if she is black or mutt, in gaming also? This shit is clearly cringe and not working but they keep fucking pushing it why? Is Black Rock truly responsible here for even this?
japs look at hollywood and think the money they generate is real instead of a money laundering scheme
And her storylies a bit racist too
The creators of this mess are garden gnomes, haven't you read any older books? One of the main things communists(garden gnomes) called for was to turn everything ugly. You think they care about money? You bet your last 2 cents they do. But they care more for destroying. You can bet your soul on that.
Damn dude this is an epic post. If I could give you a fist bump I would. Not even joking here well said I think you are right on the money with what you posted here.
They listened to the wokeshits they hired about what actual gaijins play.
Those fags are fucking lucky that FFXIV will keep them afloat despite shitting the bed this many times in a row. That said, considering the CEO got fired, this game most certainly caused real damage to the company. If only it happened sooner.
put Kingdom Hearts on Steam and i'll buy it a 4th time