Don Wang wrote:Enix makes money from what... Dragon Quest? And what else? They have some manga stuff going that's like printing money, but it's not anywhere near a best seller. They have remakes on handhelds that's probably like printing money too, but then FF caught on to pretty quick.
If I recall Square put some absolutely stupid amount of money in their Hawaii studio that basically accomplished nothing. The fact they even have half of Enix's capitalization says a lot about how big they are.
If a smaller company is dominant in the merger of a larger company that means it's a stronger company. Size don't equal strength.
Not sure what else they do (for Konami, games aren't the majority of their business, maybe it was the same with Enix?), but it's rather obvious that Enix was on much stronger footing from a business sense than Square.
And from what I've seen, the FF remakes don't seem to touch the DQ ones in terms of sales. DQ4 for PSX in Japan sold something like 2 million copies, it was insane. Them Japanese luvs their DQ.