Well, I guess that FFVII remake is coming sooner than expected....

Seriously though, it's not that big of a surprise when you consider that FFXII was released in 2006 and Dragon Quest VIIII only 1-2 months before that year in the US. After all, 2007 was a year of handheld and more casual games for the company, 200k-sales type titles, so them having a more "average" year was to be expected.

Also, the titles that are going to really bring them in the money (Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, and obviously Final Fantasy XIII) have been in development all that year, so I think they knew what the outcome was going to be also.

Quote Originally Posted by JKTrix
President Wada apparently said to 'stop making games that only you (developers) want to play'.
that wasn't in the article, and I seriously hope he did not say that. I think the worst decision they could make would be to go in the FFXII and Last Remnant direction, of making an RPG "appealing to Western audiences" - meaning an attempt to make a western RPG. The people who play WRPG's do not want to buy Square-Enix games, and the SE fans do not want to buy Western-like RPG's. I think the creativity and aesthetics that are not necessarily better, but different than what we come to expect in our culture, is what has made their company so successful in the US.