translated from Spanish: Low sales and Disclaimers: crisis in Square Enix

Square Enix is going on a hectic week. On Tuesday confirmed that its new study of animation and gaming Luminous Productions would abandon production transmedia to devote himself exclusively to the development of new video games. On Wednesday he revealed that their releases of 2018 have not achieved the sales expectations. And at dawn on Thursday confirmed the resignation of the legendary Hajime Tabata, director of Final Fantasy XV. And that is not all. With the resignation of Tabata are cancelled Final Fantasy XV downloadable expansions promised for 2019. The chapter dedicated to the character of Ardyn is the only one who is saved and will be in March next year, but we can no longer play the episodes of Aranea, Lunafreya and Noctis.

It is a surprise bitter for fans of the saga, Tabata was responsible for rescuing the acclaimed Final Fantasy XV from the ashes of another game: the eternally delayed Versus XIII. Tabata took the structure of that sequel and turned it into an almost completely new game, the fifteenth installment in a series that doesn’t seem to know what the word “Final” means. Final Fantasy XV came out three years ago and through the newly founded study Luminous, Square Enix had kept the game alive with new narrative episodes and an ambitious multiplayer expansion called “Brothers in arms”. The standalone version of this expansion finally won’t come out on PC, but still confirmed for consoles… but without Tabata, its future is not promising. According to Square Enix Luminous Productions Studio recorded a loss of 33 million dollars last year–a real accomplishment for a producer recently inaugurated in March. During these short months Luminous had focused on a strange documentary to the NHK (the Japan public channel) called “Out of the Cradle”, and it is unclear if this production will finally see the light.

Out of the Cradle documentary tells the story of the origin of humanity | Source: NHK

numbers also favor the other games of the study. Sales from products launched in the past six months fell by 18.9% over last year, which indicates that Octopath Traveler and Shadow of the Tomb Raider were below expectations. These numbers come from the public presentation to shareholders of the company, and in one of the slides is confirmed another piece of bad news for gamers: Shadow of the Tomb Raider is intended as a final chapter that closes the trilogy, which explains why the company He decided to cut the game that scene post-credits which seemed to promise a sequel.

The tragic numbers of 2018 | Source: Square Enix Hajime Tabata still has not said publicly what will be the next step of his career, and Square Enix is already concentrated in 2019. Next week will announce the developments for the future of multiplayer RPG Final Fantasy XIV in Las Vegas, and in February of the year coming out the most anticipated tank: Kingdom Hearts III. In this note: Square Enix Final Fantasy Hajime Tabata

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