Square Enix’s President and CEO Yoichi Wada has recently went on record to say that he strongly believes Nintendo is gearing up to launch their next generation Wii sometime next year. He doesn’t go into much detain but does suggest that the console could possibly feature a completely redone controller in addition to high definition graphics, which would make sense.
Furthermore, Mr. Wada has also said that while the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 motion controllers are cool, they probably won’t make much of an impact. He elaborates by pointing to the fact that game consoles now have a wide array of uses from a network terminal to a Blu-ray player and that the list of things you can do with these new motion controllers is quite small.
Read (Financial Times)
This was probably expected but is still news anyways — Back in April Square Enix announced that it had effectively taken over Eidos but ever since we haven’t heard much out of the two companies.
Well, Yoichi Wada, Square Enix’s CEO, was recently quoted to say in an interview with Gamasutra that while it was possible that they would be working on Eidos with an existing IP “but what’s more important is that the two companies, for example, are going to be creating a new IP together.”
So, the guys behind the Final Fantasy series will be collaborating with the guys behind the Tomb Raider series for an all new IP. No way of telling what’s in store for us but let’s hope its good, Mr. Wada.
Square Enix’s CEO Yoichi Wada has pretty much confirmed their quest for world domination — After aquiring Tomb Raider developer, Eidos, one would think the mega publisher would be satisfied but that doesn’t look to be the case.
When questioned about their buyout of Eidos, Wada was quoted as saying:
The combination of Eidos and Square Enix gives us a good platform from which to expand. In that process, we might decide to acquire another company.
Evidentially Mr. Wada isn’t happy with his company’s presence in western markets, I wonder what companies they have in mind?
Read (Edge)
