What's up with Square/Enix?

[Scooter]

I was reading through a nice coffee table book I have on the history of video games. In the sections on specific consoles most have two page spreads of screen shots from some of the best games that were available on that console. In a couple places a disclaimer reads that the many great games by Square/Enix are not pictures at Square's request.

Why would they not want their games to be featured and why would they not authorize screen shots from their games? There are entire (small) chapters in the book for most of the meaningful studios and a chapter on Square is painfully and obviously missing I'm sure because they requested not to be included. Why? The book is pretty to look at and the content is interesting but mostly flattering to the subjects at hand and I'm sure any chapter on Square would have been nothing but glowing praise. Very odd.

[ubelaffe]

although there's "no such thing as bad press," they might not want others making money off pictures of their product. I mean, you probably wouldn't have been as inclined to pick that book up if it didn't have pictures of all your favorite games. I'm not justifying their decision, but rather trying to rationalize such an odd move.

[The Apprentice]

I read that book, they made a mistake and put Sonic Crackers in the Genesis pages as Sonic the Hedgehog 4.