Square Enix Head: A "Very Bountiful" 2009

Square Enix is coming off a year that, by their standards, was pretty low-key. Their top-selling title in Japan was a Nintendo DS remake of Dragon Quest V that shifted 1.17 million copies, followed by a gaggle of games that did fair-to-middling worldwide. Things are on the up for the company in 2009, however — according, anyway, to president Yoichi Wada, who sat down for an interview with Weekly Famitsu magazine earlier this week.

“I think [2008] was a year where we fought very well,” Wada commented. “Without a very powerful title in the main DQ or Final Fantasy series to rely on, each game and brand we worked on this year did the best they could for us. Our lineup was centered around portable titles, and looking at it like that, they did very well.”

2008 was a year when Square Enix went into the Xbox 360 in a big way — The Last Remnant and Infinite Undiscovery both performed well on the platform, and Star Ocean: The Last Hope is hitting Japanese store shelves very soon. “We are working toward launching other new brands as well, which I think we’ll be seeing the results of in 2009 and beyond,” Wada told Famitsu. “Perhaps we did not get all of the results we wanted to from the very beginning, but this year was an important connecting point to the next step for us. With that in mind, I think we all put up a good fight in 2008.”

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