Official Square Enix Survey/Poll

[ninjainspandex]

Kind of made me depressed when filling in the what phone do you own part that the iPhone 3 was not an option, am I the only one still using an iPhone 3 haha?

[Gunstar Green]

Nailed it.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Kind of made me depressed when filling in the what phone do you own part that the iPhone 3 was not an option, am I the only one still using an iPhone 3 haha?

I have a 2003 era "flip-phone". And I only have that because my old TracFone died.

[dsheinem]

Comparing just Square(soft) to a merger of two companies doesn't make much sense. You should be comparing Square + Enix to Square Enix. Unless you are speaking about games developed by Square since Enix didn't really develop games...If you compare in house games developed by Square to games developed by Square Enix they are quite divorced from their past in regards to games released in the US...Not counting re-releases, ports and remakes Square developed over 30 rpgs that made it to NA and Square Enix developed under 20 rpgs that made it to NA.

Ok, that's probably a fairer way to look at it. Even still, though, under 20 NA releases for ~10 years is still as good or better than ~30 NA releases over the ~20 years prior to the merger. There are still a lot of RPGs coming out - including new IPs - that bear the Square name...

[BoneSnapDeez]

Enix is an interesting case because they were always more of a publisher than developer. Many of their great classic titles were developed by now (sadly) defunct studios like Produce, Almanic, Givro, Quintet, Quest... Their IPs are essentially dead now too.

[Exhuminator]

I'm aware, I can still be disappointed about a lack of official release.

And I will join in your disappoint in remembrance of key Front Mission games we still haven't gotten in English officially or unofficially.

[Ack]

Comparing just Square(soft) to a merger of two companies doesn't make much sense. You should be comparing Square + Enix to Square Enix. Unless you are speaking about games developed by Square since Enix didn't really develop games...If you compare in house games developed by Square to games developed by Square Enix they are quite divorced from their past in regards to games released in the US...Not counting re-releases, ports and remakes Square developed over 30 rpgs that made it to NA and Square Enix developed under 20 rpgs that made it to NA.

Ok, that's probably a fairer way to look at it. Even still, though, under 20 NA releases for ~10 years is still as good or better than ~30 NA releases over the ~20 years prior to the merger. There are still a lot of RPGs coming out - including new IPs - that bear the Square name...

Wait, wait, so are you opposed to my request for Square Enix to translate some of their older games which never saw a US release and give them a US release?

[Gunstar Green]

Kind of made me depressed when filling in the what phone do you own part that the iPhone 3 was not an option, am I the only one still using an iPhone 3 haha?

I have a 2003 era "flip-phone". And I only have that because my old TracFone died.

We are like brothers.

[pepharytheworm]

Comparing just Square(soft) to a merger of two companies doesn't make much sense. You should be comparing Square + Enix to Square Enix. Unless you are speaking about games developed by Square since Enix didn't really develop games...If you compare in house games developed by Square to games developed by Square Enix they are quite divorced from their past in regards to games released in the US...Not counting re-releases, ports and remakes Square developed over 30 rpgs that made it to NA and Square Enix developed under 20 rpgs that made it to NA.

Ok, that's probably a fairer way to look at it. Even still, though, under 20 NA releases for ~10 years is still as good or better than ~30 NA releases over the ~20 years prior to the merger. There are still a lot of RPGs coming out - including new IPs - that bear the Square name...

Should not the year counter for Square start with when they first developed an RPG? That would be 1987 so 16 years compared to 12 as Square Enix. But that came to the US in 1990 so then it's only 13 years. But again even if you include all the games developed by other companies for Square Enix you should also include Enix games which again puts the US output above that of Square Enix unless you count remakes, ports and re-releases which throws off the numbers for all three companies. 58 RPGs published in NA under square or enix. 49 RPGs published under Square Enix. As a publisher they seem close as a developer they have slacked by~25%. New IP wise also old square and enix win, but that isn't fair as many of those are still released to this day by Square Enix, I mean Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy were new IPs at one time.

[Exhuminator]

At this point it's time to make an Excel sheet and export graphs man.

No really I would enjoy that.