Square Enix profits down, but not on sales of franchises familiar keep alive

by James Ransom-Wiley 5th November 2010 12 H 15 if you believe that we are going to explain this mess of sketch above - fuggedaboutit! What we've parsed from six-month financial report by Square Enix (modeling 2010) is net income rather mild: ¥ 1.723 billion ($21.4 million). While any company would be change Pocket loss, Square Enix profits are down 36 percent from the same period last year and sales software for the first half of the year have relied heavily on "the contribution of the sale of very profitable to headlines, published in March report" - in other words: Final Fantasy XIII has picked up the slack.

And who were the slackers? Square Enix has highlighted five "main titles" released in the period:

Finally, Square Enix announced its recent partnership with the Publisher of Shanda games; Chinese online gamesa sign agreement of two of the three proclaimed the company growth strategies: globalization and become "network centric."As regards the third? square three-pronged attack of Enix also stresses "strengthening our own IP".alors when is the next Final Fantasy out yet?

[Image: comparison of the year monthly revenue of institutions existing; source: Square Enix]

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