Board 8 > Nier: Automata way above forecast; Square to outsource mid-tier titles

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http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/17q4outline.pdf

"NieR:Automata,” which we released in February, was another earnings contributor, generating sales significantly above our plan."

Q: "NieR:Automata” is a mid-sized title that has produced strong results. Will that have any impact on your strategy going forward, including the possibility of revisiting how you allocate your human resources?

A: In terms of the balance between in-house efforts and outsourcing, we intend to primarily develop our major
franchises in-house and to outsource mid-sized titles. It is also important to cultivate new titles, and for that reason we are also thinking about how tie-ups with external companies can help balance our mix.

https://abload.de/img/nier1k8uvp.png

https://m.imgur.com/3fxWxmu?r
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They should do what Sega did and just exit the console mark...

err I mean exit the game development market and just outsource everything.
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They should outsource their mid tier titles like Final Fantasy to reputable companies that release games on time like Kojima Productions
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Alternatively they should outsource their mid tier titles to 3rd party devs that are also working on Microsoft projects so they don't have to fund them
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Wait you mean they had somewhat reasonable expectations for a title and didn't expect it to sell 4M+ to profit???

You don't have to have high expectations for a game to sell when the dev that's handling it is using Microsoft's money to make your game for you
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Someone's really upset about Scalebound, lol
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Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

swordz9 posted...

Wait you mean they had somewhat reasonable expectations for a title and didn't expect it to sell 4M+ to profit???

Yoko Taro normally sells like shit. But, frankly, a large part of that is simply that his games have shit to mediocre gameplay. They hired Platinum for this, so higher expectations than the norm (relatively) would've made sense.
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I want to get the game at some point

I don't even have an Xbone so I don't really care about Scalebound. I feel bad for MS getting cucked when they're trying their best to get games for the Xbone.
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GranzonEx posted...

I don't even have an Xbone so I don't really care about Scalebound. I feel bad for MS getting cucked when they're trying their best to get games for the Xbone.

By the sounds of it, MS cucked themselves anyway. They're the ones responsible for it fucking up, not Platinum.
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Chrono Break time
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Ya go my NIER
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give me platinum's anachronox
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"yoko taro saved square enix by making them adjust how to do business."

shit square enix indeed.
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Remember that outsourcing was literally Enix's entire business model until the merger, and even afterward most of their brands were outsourced (DQ10 was the very first Dragon Quest to be developed in-house)
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GranzonEx posted...

You don't have to have high expectations for a game to sell when the dev that's handling it is using Microsoft's money to make your game for you

That's sooooo not how game budgets work lmao
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Anyways if SE uses this one game as a template going forward, they will probably fail hard. This game is a total outlier in every single way, it's impossible to reproduce.
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All I hear about is the main character's butt so perhaps they can implement that as a strategy going forward.
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