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SQUARE-ENIX: NEO: The World Ends With You “Has Under-performed Our Initial Expectations”

About 4 months ago, Square-Enix had released the 2007’s Nintendo DS classic, the World Ends with You sequel, “NEO: The World Ends with You.: The sequel’s game is available on PC, the Nintendo Switch, and on the PS4.

Unfortunately, for the games sequel, Square Enix has revealed that the game hasn’t done that well with it’s sales.

Square-Enix had recently held their November 2021 financial reports briefing. During they talked about how NEO: The World Ends with You has done in sales. According to Square-Enix, “while “NEO: The World Ends with You” was well received by players, it has under-performed our initial expectations.”

Square Enix Delays Both Final Fantasy VII Remake and Marvel’s Avengers

Today has been crazy in terms of gaming news both good and bad. The good well, if you are a Smash fan we are getting a 35 minute long presentation to be held on Thursday (only downside, is that it’s very early morning). The bad news for today, if you look delays as a bad thing, Square Enix has announced that BOTH highly anticipated games being the Final Fantasy VII remake and Marvel’s Avengers game has indeed been delayed that Square announced from earlier this morning.

The Final Fantasy VII Remake didn’t get delayed by much though. Only month of it’s original release. For the Final Fantasy VII Remake, producer Yoshinori Kitase did give a reason for the games delay, being wanting to give it more of an “extra polish.”

As it was going to be an April release game. The somewhat concerning one to look at of these two delayed games is Marvel’s Avengers. Marvel’s Avengers was bumped from May, to now being a September release instead. The heads of Crystal Dynamics has also said something similar for the game’s delay.

“To that end, we will spend this additional development time focusing on fine tuning and polishing the game to the high standards our fans expect and deserve.”

A New Dragon Quest Game Has Been in Development Since 2019

After the amazing success and the much critical acclaim that Dragon Quest XI: Age of Illusion for the PS4 and Dragon Quest XI S for the Nintendo Switch has received many fans have been wondering when could we possibly be getting the next big mainline entry of the Dragon Quest series. Well, series creator Yuji Hori has shared some statements from yesterday that answers this question.

In it, Horii has revealed that the next main series Dragon Quest title, Dragon Quest XII, has been in development since 2019. It’s been 33 years since the first Dragon Quest game was originally released, and 2 years since Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age launched on the Playstation 4 and Nintendo 3DS. Horii also said that “I don’t know how long I can go on, but I feel like I want to do my best just a little bit more”

Here’s more of Horii’s message in full down below.

“Last year we started with publishing the movie Dragon Quest: Your Story, then releasing the Switch version of Dragon Quest 11, the mobile version of DQ Walk, the announcement of The Adventure of Dai anime along with its game adaptation, the production of [DQ]12 and more; even now after 33 years have passed since I made the 1st game, I feel very glad that I can do new challenges like these. Thank you very much to all users who have cheered on Dragon Quest until now, and also to all of the many staff members who have supported me. I don’t know how long I can go on, but I feel like I want to do my best just a little bit more. I hope this year will be an amazing year to everyone. I’m looking forward to work together in this year.”

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