Square Enix’s latest financial results has some good, and it had some bad.
For the first quarter of the company’s fiscal 2014, Square Enix once again posted a loss, but didn’t see as big a downturn as it did last year. Net sales came in at 24 billion yen ($245.3 million) – a decrease from 24.9 billion yen year-over-year. Meanwhile, net loss stands at 493 million yen ($5 million), which is quite a bit better than last year’s 2 billion yen ($21.1 million) loss.
Square Enix’s Digital Entertainment division – primarily focused on video games – were up having posted net sales of 11.5 billion yen ($118 million) and an operating income of 1.3 billion yen ($13.4 million).
Square Enix states in its latest financial results that console game sales were “weak” following the lack of new titles shipped during the first quarter. Encouragingly, Dragon Quest X “has been showing steady performance.”
A new Nintendo Direct presentation will be broadcasted tomorrow, Nintendo has announced. The presentation will focus on “previously announced” Wii U and 3DS games launching this year.
You’ll be able to watch the proceedings here (or here for Europe, here for Japan). The stream will take place at 10 AM ET / 7 AM PT. Note that presentations are being held in both North America, Europe, and Japan.
Gamasutra recently had the chance to speak with Bayonetta 2 director Yusuke Hashimoto and producer Atsushi Inaba about the upcoming Wii U game as well as Platinum as a whole. Topics include working with Nintendo, elements of the actual game, and general talk about the studio.
You can find a few excerpts below, and the entire interview here.
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Conception II (3DS/PSV) – 9/9/8/8
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Masou Kishin III – Pride of Justice (PS3/PSV) – 8/8/8/7
Dungeons & Dragons Mystara Eiyuu Senki (PS3) – 8/7/7/7
Nintendo and Masahiro Sakurai have put out yet another screenshot from Super Smash Bros. Wii U today, but this one’s a bit special. The image shows what appears to be a brand new stage featuring Pilotwings.
Sakurai unfortunately didn’t say much on Miiverse. Along with the image, he simply wrote: “This island looks familiar!”
Hmmm…
