[kupoartist]

Originally Posted by TtTackler

You would think that the development would be spread a bit thin between the 15 projects, limiting the chance of the games reaching their full potential. And 4 titles based upon FF7 alone is a bit overdoing it. Can I finally get my new Chrono game, please?

Well, a lot of the remakes probably require very small teams, and I suspect the mobile games do as well. On top of this, Square Enix is a an Extremely big games development company. Their Wikipedia entry suggests that they have 2,706 employees. By contrast, a company like Epic Games, simultaneously making their cutting edge Unreal Engine, Unreal Tournament 2007 and Gears of War has only 60 employees (Others are pretty small too: ID Software have 26, Valve have 70+). I'd say Square has enough people to make that many games, but one wonders if there is an issue of their most talented been stretched over too many projects... also, and perhaps more importantly, there is the issue of whether as an international company they're going to be able to localise all of these games efficiently. Whilst it's pretty certain they won't bother with the mobile games, even the console titles will potentially stretch their resources. If we get all those games, it would not surprise me to see many european localisations skipped over a'la the remakes released on PS-One.

By the way, they are working on perhaps 12 projects more, though the majority are mobile titles:

3D Space Invaders [Mobile]
Brave Shot 2 [Mobile]
Chase HQ 3D [Mobile]
Children of Mana [DS]
Dawn of Mana [PS2]
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime [DS]
Elevator Action 3D [Mobile]
Megatouch: Mobile Arcade [Mobile]
Seiken Densetsu (a.k.a. Sword of Mana / FF Adventure) [Mobile]
Valkyrie Profile Lenneth [PSP]
Valkyrie Profile 2 [PS2]
ポケメ～ト (Some kind of pokemon tie in game/utility of all things) [Mobile]