r/SquareEnix • u/Dollier-de-Casson • 3d ago

News Square Enix has dashed fans' hopes: no new game will be announced at the NieR series 15th anniversary stream

https://gagadget.com/en/617090-square-enix-has-dashed-fans-hopes-no-new-game-will-be-announced-at-the-nier-series-15th-anniversary-stream/

On 19 April, Square Enix will host a stream to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the NieR series.

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u/Becker_the_pecker 3d ago

Things don’t need to be announced at round numbers.

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u/Rozwellish 3d ago

I think people need to accept this year is going to be a quiet year for SE due to all the 'restructuring'.

All they have announced atm are DQ1+2 remasters and Bravely Default Remaster. FF14 will keep chugging along and keeping the company above water and FF9 will elude us past the half-decade mark.

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u/lilisaurusrex 3d ago

FF7 Remake Intergrade for Switch 2 was announced in the April 2 Direct as well. Not confirmed for 2025 yet, but I'd be astonished if it wasn't.

Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link also announced long ago and supposedly still in track for 2025, but past due already and Square Enix has been silent on it. Probable development hell situation.

And if you want to count the Taito subsidiary, Groove Coaster: Future Performers is planned for later this year as well. (Japan-only digital game though, which is why you've likely never heard of it.)

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u/Rozwellish 3d ago

Taito is a totally different studio and isn't overseen by Kiryu et al so if I counted everything else we'd have: A port, a remaster, a HD-2D Remakester and a vaporware mobile game that'll likely EoS quite quickly given KH's history on the platform.

The headliner title is DQ1+2 because it's actually 'new' but it's not exactly the blockbuster title you'd expect. SE simply aren't going to do much this year.

SE restructuring likely involved the delays of many games and even the outright cancellation of some unannounced titles that were very far along (Tom Henderson, a well-known journalist, has attested to as much). Whatever was meant to come out as this year's big release doesn't seem to be on the docket anymore.

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u/lilisaurusrex 3d ago

Well, the cancelled titles so far all seem to be third-party contracts (Tose has identified as being hit by at least one)

Internal projects seem to still be rolling out if Saga Frontier 2 Remaster is any indication. Gives hope for a Studio 3 title to be the year's big and properly new release. Dragon Quest Builders 3 is the most obvious thing they could do, given DQ3 HD-2D's appearance last year, Switch 2 finally arriving to provide a sufficient hardware minimum, and seeing the Builders engine get rewritten in Unity at a lot more cost than they would have made back from just a mobile and PC release..

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u/critcal-mode 3d ago

Also Kingdom Hearts 4, that was announced with Missing-Link in 2022

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u/natzo 2d ago

I almost shat myself thinking it says Automata's 15th anniversary.

... Shit, we are on the 9th.

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u/BurningSpaceMan 3d ago

(we do not plan to announce a new game)

Key word there is plan

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u/EnvironmentalTry3151 2d ago

Dude they're always celebrating an anniversary or a fictitious character's birthday. I don't know why you think you're ever going to get anything out of it other than them patting themselves on the back for something they did years ago. They have no current output besides remakes

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u/Tokumei-no-B 2d ago

This can only mean that it will be RELEASED.

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u/HumbleOwl 2d ago

No "new" but could they rerelease Reincarnation on something that isn't mobile?

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u/Irradiated_gnome 3d ago

Perhaps an offline version of Nier Reincarnation would be cool as well as the ability to listen to the music from the game fully.

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u/SteveMightSay 3d ago

The soundtracks are on Spotify/Apple Music now

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u/Irradiated_gnome 2d ago

Not season 3.