Square-Enix profits so big, they crashed an airship
by Nick Doerr 
{ Nov 16th 2006 at 6:00PM }
Heh, get it? Cuz, cuz, they like airships and loaded it with too much money, so it crashed. Heh. Heh. Ahem. Anyway, let's take a break from what seems to be an overwhelmingly anti-Sony news day to look at one of Sony's most beloved allies. Squeenix announced today that it expects a 3.3 billion yen ($27.9 million) consolidated net income for their six-month period that ended on September 30th. This is a 32% increase from the previous forecast. Amazing.The massive increase with due in part to "an adjustment in the amount of deferred income taxes associated with consolidated accounting" as well as the Final Fantasy VII movie, Advent Children. So, have they made up for the Spirits Within bombshell of a movie? No way in hell, most likely. Even so, this is good news for RPG fanatics -- they can expect to enjoy their final fantasy many more times, but still call it final. Square got very lucky back in the day... that game saved them and in a way, the RPG genre. It wouldn't be as popular as it is, anyway. Kudos, Squeenix.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dahk @ Nov 16th 2006 6:15PM
Lol gotta love that joke Doerr =).
Btw, that was your 100th post!! Should've done something special ahah =)
ndoerr @ Nov 16th 2006 6:22PM
@ Dahk -- thanks =) And to date, I've done exactly 400 posts. Pretty sweet. Hopefully I'll keep that 30-day tally you guys see above 100 for the rest of my stay here. Would be nice.
Will @ Nov 17th 2006 12:43AM
Hey, give some love to Enix too. They created Terranigma. They just had to merge to curb development costs, thanks to all the money Spirits Within lost them.