Square Enix emails-pie-chat statistics

4 days ago, a Microsoft Excel-generated pie chart was realeased on the official North American Square Enix Members website.

It might be pointless but we're just concerned on the number of the "FFVII Remake requests" being much bigger than the confirmed "FFXIII".
This is causing a big amount of fans to want a remake so bad that they don't care anymore about the upcoming titles.

Source: FFInsight

Square reigns in Japan

Sure Square owns most of the Japanese players. When Dengeki readers were polled about the best games of 2007 and then asked to rate the best games ever we came to know for sure that Square Enix its the main videogame-creator company on Japan.
Here are the results:


What is the best game you played during 2007?
1. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (Sony PSP)
2. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Sony PSP)
3. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo Wii)
4. Dragon Quest IV (Nintendo DS)
5. Super Robot Taisen Original Generations (Sony PlayStation 2)
6. Persona 3 (Sony PlayStation2)
7. Etrian Odyssey (Nintendo DS)
8. Ar Tonelico 2 (Sony PlayStation 2)
9. Fate/stay night [Realta Nua] (Sony PlayStation2)
10. Lost Odyssey (Xbox360)


What is the best game you ever played?
1. Final Fantasy VII (Sony PlayStation)
2. Final Fantasy X (Sony PlayStation 2)
3. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (Sony PSP)
4. Xenogears (Sony PlayStation)
5. Tales Of The Abyss (Sony PlayStation 2)
6. Dragon Quest III (Super Famicom)
7. Dragon Quest VIII (Sony PlayStation 2)
8. Chrono Trigger (Super NES)
9. Suikoden II (Sony PlayStation)
10. Okami (Sony PlayStation 2)

So much time has passed, but every player can never forget the great and precious RPG that FFVII was.

Source: SquareInsider

Nomura interview by Famitsu

To celebrate their 1000th issue, Famitsu released a 4 page interview with Tetsuya Nomura. We don't have any complete translation but we got some translations provided on some webpages which I give credit to kula shakerz for his work to find them.


- While designing Final Fantasy VII, they were indecisive about how spiky to make Cloud's hair.

- He would be happy with Final Fantasy illustrations done only by Amano.

- He likes to draw with just a sharp pencil.

- Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII: Has muscular legs, she isn't sweet and doesn't cry.

- Aya from Parasite Eve 3 is a bid more rounded than Lightning.

- The clothes of the Final Fantasy Versus XII hero will probably be revised.

- He buys games based on Famitsu reviews.

Here are the four scans: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4.

Source: SquareInsider

Those who buy X360 are true players

The actual director of Square Enix, Yochi Wanda, comments about the current state of this new console generation.
"Xbox 360 is a console for hardcore gamers, those who buy it are the real gamers", said Wanda.

He mentioned that those who buy Wii, buy it only as a toy, and not as console. It was meant to be made for fun.
And also, as it wouldn't be fair to put it aside. Wanda states that Sony isn't sure about what they want to do with PS3. "Was it made as a console or as an High Technological System?"

The director also took some of the time to state his opinion about the new games development. He says that it's necessary to work on new titles, but also to show and to remember the importance of remakes of previous titles.
"60% of the games belong to series and 40% the new headings. There's a misunderstand idea established that it indicates that only we trust series as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest ", affirms the direction.

Source: XBoxTeamPortugal