soft, enix?

[Aerisfanatic]

my question is why did they change there name from square.soft to square.enix when ff X-2 came out?

[oddler]

Square Co. merged with Enix in 2002 to make up for the losses from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and to lower development costs.

[Markus. D]

well~ actually~

2 games before that (I think) already had the title.

[edczxcvbnm]

Square Co. merged with Enix in 2002 to make up for the losses from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and to lower development costs.

I think it is funny because Final Fantasy saved them in the beginning and then it screwed them in the end

[Yew-Yevon]

first movie just didn't follow the ff tradition...thats why it bombed. (not bad for a si-fi though.)

[Mirage]

IIRC, AC didn't sell all that well either :p.

[edczxcvbnm]

first movie just didn't follow the ff tradition...thats why it bombed. (not bad for a si-fi though.)

Since when are bizzare ghosts and the world having a mind of its own/heart or whatever Science Fiction? Sounds like fantasy to me.

Overall the movie was really ty.

[Lynx]

AC didn't sell all that well either .

thats because 1 day after the japanese release everyone had pirated it from the internet. some people had itbefore the japanese release somehow. despite it being in japanese i dont think people cared. the first time i saw it was in japanese with english subs mine wasnt illegal though someone ordered it from japan and the place that had it does a movie viewing thing and one of the days they were haveing a advent children showing. i woudl have bought the english version but my friend has it anytime i want to see it i can borrow it.

[Bunny]

first movie just didn't follow the ff tradition...thats why it bombed. (not bad for a si-fi though.)

Since when are bizzare ghosts and the world having a mind of its own/heart or whatever Science Fiction? Sounds like fantasy to me.

Since the movie took place in space, was set in the future, and involved alien life forms.

[Fatal Impurity]

FF: TSW has created its own sub-genre science-fantasy!

[Necronopticous]

The "-soft" in Squaresoft is "software" truncated, many software and game developers use this suffix at the end of their name. In Japan, the company was always known as just Square without the suffix, only the games localized for western release bore the name Squaresoft. When they merged with the company Enix, they changed the company name to Square-Enix and dropped the -soft suffix altogether, even for localized games.

On a side note, the Spirits Within was a great film, and was faithful to the soul of the Final Fantasy series. If you don't understand why, then you simply do not understand what the soul and overwhelming message of the Final Fantasy series is.

[Orophin]

1- Enix create Dragon Quest and it becomes the most loved series in Japan.

2- Square (known as Squaresoft outside of Japan) create Final Fantasy and becomes the second most loved series in Japan.

3- Enix and Square become big rivals.

4- Square make a movie named Final Fantasy : The Spirit Within and lose millions of money.

5- Square sells some of their francises like Xenogears to make up for the lost but it's not enough.

6 5- Enix merge with Square and they name the newly formed compagnie Square-Enix.

I think that sum it up.

[The Mog Ninja]

since when did enix BUY square?

[Orophin]

since when did enix BUY square?

Well Square like to say they "merged" with Enix but I think that it's because they don't want to say is that they have been bought, I can be wrong through.

EDIT : Ok, I changed that part because it's based on pure assumption.

[Mirage]

Uh, Square never sold Xenogears. I don't think you're entirely sure what you're talking about.