Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada resigns

[Correction]

Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't DQX do well in Japan? Number I heard was like 400k subscribers and that was supposed to be pretty good. Is 400k true and just not good enough?

If it's not in line with their revenue forecasts, it's not good enough. This has been floating around since February as second hand rumors, this is just the first time SE has flat out said it. I'm going to go out on a limb and say they are spending more maintaining their DQX subscriptions than their FF11 subs, so 400k may seem fine but they need that number to be a lot higher.

[Lucavi]

Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't DQX do well in Japan? Number I heard was like 400k subscribers and that was supposed to be pretty good. Is 400k true and just not good enough?

Its not good enough if your sales figures and goals don't match up. There's a lot of costs associated with keeping the ship running in terms of a MMO, and often times, MMO profits are diverted to another section of the company, so even if the game was technically "in the black", if its not enough "in the black" for some of the profits to go elsewhere, while still pulling in revenue, you're going to see an issue.

I'm not really surprised, though; I don't see Japan as this massive MMO market, especially when they've got 30 billion portable and phone games to choose from. MMO players typically aren't always on the move, and if there's one word I wouldn't use to describe the average Japanese youth, its static.

[Salodin]

There problem is they want to make EA money off products that don't compare to the broad appeal off something like madden or fifa. that just won't work, no matter how amazing some recent times have been.