Wada Wada Wada - Square Enix is Neutral in Hardware Wars

by John Landis on July 29, 2008 at 10:33 am

Square Enix President and all around peaceful guy Yoichi Wada recently stated that his company remains neutral in the ever flame-inducing console war.

Fans (or fanboys) of the 360 and PS3 were at each other’s throats yet again recently when supposed long-time PlayStation backer Square Enix announced that their flagship title Final Fantasy XIII would be released for the 360 — in North America, at least.

“We’re now in the age of the multi-platform, but depending on age and territory, users have different tastes. Therefore it’s very difficult to just deal with one company or one hardware platform - in order to offer our product to the vast majority of gamers we need to deal with multiple companies and platforms.n North America Microsoft is doing very well with its hardware, and for that reason it’s a very important partner for us.”

He also states, “We always consider the territory and hardware for titles, and I just want to make sure that we’re neutral about dealing with companies.” This should come as no surprise to anyone, as Square Enix titles have popped up on nearly every system at some point since the glory days of the NES. So this isn’t a knife in the back to Sony at all — perhaps a bullet in the brain to Kaz Hirai considering the game is still a PS3 exclusive in Japan.

Speaking of Nintendo, when asked about the Wii, Wada said in typical lawyer-over-the-shoulder speak that they didn’t have any plans, but the system was kick-ass and that they’re “ready to offer various types of content to various types of users.” Basically, if it can make money, they’d be willing to make a game for it.

You can read the full interview over at gameindustry.biz

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ReVeLaTeD
on September 11, 2008 3:24 pm

“This should come as no surprise to anyone, as Square Enix titles have popped up on nearly every system at some point since the glory days of the NES.”

That’s not true, at least not to my knowledge. I don’t recall seeing a Square Enix game on-

Sega Genesis
Sega CD
Sega 32X
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Game Gear
3DO
Atari Jaguar
Nintendo 64

There’s a lot Squaresoft, Enix, or Square Enix has not delved into. So their refusal to support a system is rather silly. As is their claim that Wii is “ideal” - for remakes, sure. For new games, no. My Life as A King is an exception, but even that game had limits. Seems to me though that they’re heavily supporting Nintendo’s products moreso than the others. It’s going to hurt them in the end.

At least now we know why Kingdom Hearts 2 was not released on PS3.

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