Yoichi Wada, CEO of Square Enix, a company most notable for
creating the extensive Final Fantasy
video game series, has recently left the company. Square Enix, despite being
one of the most well-know and successful game companies in the past, is now
facing a possibly loss of 138 million dollars.
Almost all high profile video games cost about $60 upon initial release.
Within the last year, Square Enix has released three new well-received titles: Sleeping Dogs, Hitman: Absolution, and Tomb Raider, with a combined sales total
of approximately nine million copies sold. That all adds up to about $540
million dollars, which seems unusually high for a company threatened with such
great losses. Square Enix has announced that despite selling such a great
amount, the titles didn’t reach their expectations. The production values of
games such as these are now so high due to things such as constantly increasing
graphic and marketing costs may be part of the cause for the recent successes
of independent, low-budget games.
http://mashable.com/2013/03/27/video-game-costs-crash/#mwtg325
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