SE says Chrono Trigger isn't selling well enough for sequelFollow

http://www.infendo.com/industry/square-says-chrono-trigger-isnt-popular-tells-fans-to-buy-more-copies/#comments



And all this time, I thought they reserved the good drugs for the people that work on FFXI.

To compare it to other games around that time, Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past has sold over 4 million copies, including re-releases. Final Fantasy VI sold 4.2 million, including re-releases. Really, 3 million isn't bad for a game released around that time.

They aren't talking about original sales though. It's a slightly misleading statement.

Square Enix is talking about sales of the DS re-release. Which of course, is an even worse statement, since just because people love Chrono Trigger, that doesn't mean they are going to go out and buy a re-release of a decade + old game for 60 USD and play it again.

Chrono Trigger DS had horrible sales. It was a HIGHLY pirated piece of software. Square Enix is not happy about the DS piracy and how abundant it is. They feel that it is not worth making new games if everyone is just going to download it rather than purchase it. It's a waste of money in their mind to spend money to develop new games if they are just going to lose money.

Square Enix games for the DS are top of the list for piracy downloads. Square Enix knows this. It's their right to halt production as a protest to piracy. In fact, it's the best thing for them to do to give pirates a wake up call.

"If you don't stop pirating these games, we will just stop making them!"


But that said, I think 59.95 is WAY too much for a DS game, especially one that is merely a re-release of a previous game.

Or maybe it was 49.95? I dunno...

New DS games are way to expensive.

Just look at the current Chrono Trigger DS price:
http://www.amazon.com/Chrono-Trigger-Nintendo-DS/dp/B001E27DLM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1244678045&sr=8-1

They still want 40 USD for it.

Wiiware can be pirated. Not that hard. The same emulator plays Gamecube, Wii, and Wiiware games.

(Not that I would know this, of course)

DSIware is not yet pirated, they have the files, but haven't cracked the code that locks them to the DSi they were downloaded to. The only reason I believe they haven't is because there isn't a huge demand for them.

Can you pirate a ps3 game, 360 game, or wii game yet?

There's nothing stopping square from actually putting effort into an epic new game on a system that isn't prone to piracy. That's exactly what Chrono Cross was, and that game was ******* awesome, except for the fact that it didn't actually have anything to do with Chrono Trigger.

Xbox 360 is easily modified to play pirated games. But you can get banned permanently from Xbox Live when caught. (They catch you from your game copies missing certain security sectors on the disc and from playing games earlier than their release date in your region).

Wii can be both soft modded using game exploits and hard modded using chips to install what they call a "Homebrew Channel" that will let you play pirated games and even emulate other systems.

Currently PS3 is the only system that can't be pirated. Sony did a pretty good job with it. They all but eliminated access to the portion of the system that handles graphics when you are running Linux, making it impossible to play pirated games by using the Linux OS on your PS3. That and the fairly new hardware (Blueray) is a hurdle that hasn't been overcome yet.

It was 79.99 on the SNES, I find it ironic. Good thing piracy wasn't that easy back in the snes days.

In a way I'm glad they aren't working on a sequel right now. This isn't the Squaresoft of old, this is the company content to pump out crap like Dirge of Cerberus and let the words "Final Fantasy" stamped on it try and make the sales happen while the game(s) are simply not up to the standard past games set and often are plain total CRAP. So I figure if they don't do it now, they can't ruin it, and maybe someday a much improved Square will do it...Or go belly up and get eaten by a smarter company..

Oh Christ, so true. That rates in my top three worst videogame purchases ever. Might even be number one, actually.

1. Dirge of Cerberus
2. Pokemon Stadium
3. A tie: The Sims (played it for one hour and HATED it) and Harvest Moon 64 (because I bought it for $65 on eBay... great game, paid way too much).

They could at least have the decency to give it to someone else like they gave.. I think it was Monolith, the Xenogears story.

Pity that Monolith never finished it.

uhh..pensive the reason why they will stop making them is because it's a loss. They can't make money on it. So what if they want a sequel, if people are going to just pirate it to the point where they get no return on investment, they will have to deal.

What they see is that they released chrono trigger, it performed very poorly, and it makes them wonder if enough people would buy as opposed to pirate a sequel. A sequel would cost even more to develop and would just increase the loss. I'm sure they also looked and grand theft auto: china town wars and noticed how underperforming another big DS title is. It's not spiteful, its them just wondering if for all the want, enough people will actually buy the thing.

Yeah, that's different.