Square Enix merger a "complete failure" says former Square boss

**Shin Asura** · 11-07-2012

Square Enix merger a "complete failure" says former Square boss

By James Brightman
Wednesday 07 November 2012

Hisashi Suzuki took to Twitter to trash the company for having "no vision"

Square Enix recently posted losses and lowered forecasts across the board. Sleeping Dogs shipped 1.5 million units, but it wasn't enough to bolster the publisher's bottom line, and former management seems to have lost faith in the company's ability. Former Square Co. boss Hisashi Suzuki commented on Twitter that the merger of Square Enix back in 2003 has been a "complete failure."

He added in his own disappointment with the current management, saying, "There's no vision for the future."

Suzuki pointed out that the total value of Square Enix as a publicly traded company has still not been able to exceed the value of the publisher before the merger. He noted the high development costs which have been dragging Square Enix down, but hopefully the publisher will get some relief in that area soon, as it recently signed a long-term deal with Epic to use Unreal Engine 3 and 4.

Suzuki was president of Square from 2000 to 2002, and he was intimately familiar with the merged company, having served as director at Square Enix from 2003 to 2005. He is now a director at Sega.

[Thanks Kotaku]

**AaronSOLDIER** · 11-07-2012

Absolutely.

**Bigdoggy** · 11-07-2012

hey, I'm all in favor of the unreal engine and personally I like when that engine is used. hopefully we will get a lot more RPG's out there and sandboxes.

**Ghost-Rhayne** · 11-07-2012

Fuckin' A...SE sucks imho.

**Kuro** · 11-07-2012

Well said Suzuki-san...

**John25** · 11-07-2012

No shit Sherlock!!

**Blacksite** · 11-07-2012

Sega isn't doing much better either. Just saying...

**Shin Asura** · 11-07-2012

Originally Posted by Blacksite

Sega isn't doing much better either. Just saying...

Lol I thought the same thing when I saw that part

**zex494** · 11-09-2012

Originally Posted by Blacksite

Sega isn't doing much better either. Just saying...

This is true. Although that doesn't change the fact that what he said was dead accurate. Besides Sega was dying before he got there...

**Silver_Knight** · 11-07-2012

A guy running a company that's failing talking about another company that's failing.The audacity of this guy.

**Wrath** · 11-07-2012

Originally Posted by Blacksite

Sega isn't doing much better either. Just saying...

Originally Posted by Shin Asura

Lol I thought the same thing when I saw that part

Originally Posted by Silver_Knight

A guy running a company that's failing talking about another company that's failing.The audacity of this guy.

Exactly.

This guy's opinion doesn't mean jack shit when the company he is currently managing is basically dying a slow death.

**Kauldron** · 11-08-2012

Truth. Wada has single handedly destroyed Square. What an idiot.

**DeviousOne** · 11-08-2012

Maybe Sega will buy SquareEnix and form SegaEnixSquare =)

**Kuro** · 11-08-2012

Mega bombshell then man lol

**Fon** · 11-08-2012

It is true that the merger was bad for Square Enix. Their overall quality dropped. The best merger they did was with, Eidos which in comparison pulls quality titles.

**AaronSOLDIER** · 11-08-2012

Well they bought Eidos rather than merge with them and yes that was good for SE but tbh Eidos would be pumping out the decent games anyway.

Also at least Sega has released games worth playing in the past few years.

**Wrath** · 11-08-2012

Originally Posted by AaronSOLDIER

Also at least Sega has released games worth playing in the past few years.

So that's what you call quality gaming.

Interesting.

The only game worth your while is Yakuza, other than that Sega almost entirely relies on third-party support (e.g. Aliens: Colonial Marines by Gearbox) or focuses on niche titles.

And of course you'll see the yearly Hedgehog game if that's what you're into.

**AaronSOLDIER** · 11-08-2012

Originally Posted by Wrath

The only game worth your while is Yakuza

1 more than Square Enix then.

**Stingraysito** · 11-09-2012

Originally Posted by Wrath

So that's what you call quality gaming.

Interesting.

The only game worth your while is Yakuza, other than that Sega almost entirely relies on third-party support (e.g. Aliens: Colonial Marines by Gearbox) or focuses on niche titles.

And of course you'll see the yearly Hedgehog game if that's what you're into.

Vanquish, Football Manager. Wasn't Valkirya Chronicles part of Sega too?
The problem with Sega is that they can't market they way out of a paper bag! Choose badly who to market and who not to. Plus keep making shit Sonic games

**Kauldron** · 11-09-2012

Originally Posted by Stingraysito

Vanquish, Football Manager. Wasn't Valkirya Chronicles part of Sega too?
The problem with Sega is that they can't market they way out of a paper bag! Choose badly who to market and who not to. Plus keep making shit Sonic games

Vanquish and Valkirya Chronicles are two of this gen's best. You wouldn't be able to tell through their sales though.

Game taste in the west is pretty much shit.

**DeviousOne** · 11-08-2012

Sonic Generations was decent and a step in the right direction for the franchise but SquareEnix has put out better games when compared to Sega.

**Dave-The-Rave** · 11-09-2012

I often wonder what life would be like if Square remained Squaresoft.

**Lefein** · 11-09-2012

Yes. For the most part, the games have been utter shyte and their ability to deliver actual Final Fantasy games have been deeply hampered with all the fluff and rehashes they keep spewing out. They haven't been just a little bit bad since the merger, they have been god frikken awful!