Square Enix Will Launch ‘Large Scale Online Titles’ In Next 12 Months

<p>Square Enix has hinted that it will be releasing major new games in the not too distant future&period; In a report on their strategy for the next financial year&comma; the publisher wrote that one of its initiatives was the &&num;8216&semi;launch of large scale online titles developed by western studios starting from the fiscal year ending  3&sol;2015&&num;8217&semi;&period; That means that at least one of these titles will be released before March of next year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;61224" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-61224" style&equals;"width&colon; 150px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignleft"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;05110736&sol;Just-Cause-3&period;jpeg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-61224 size-thumbnail" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;05110736&sol;Just-Cause-3-150x150&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Just-Cause-3" width&equals;"150" height&equals;"150" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-61224" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">One of these large scale online titles could be Just Cause 3&comma; which is rumoured to launch in June 2015&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>So what could these games be&quest; If we are looking for Western developers who can make large scale online titles for Square Enix&comma; the obvious place to start is with Edios&period; A fully owned subsidiary&comma; Edios has been responsible for most of the publishers great Western content over the past few years&period; We know that the developer is currently working on Hitman 6&comma; which will definitely be included in this category&comma; but what about Edios&&num;8217&semi; other announced project&comma; the next Deus Ex game&period; Human Revolution was  single player only&comma; so could the sequel really count as a large scale online title&quest; Could this be a hint that the franchise is going to have some sort of multiplayer in the future&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of course  this category won&&num;8217&semi;t only include already announced games &comma; but also unannounced ones&period; The recent Tomb Raider reboot had online functionality and sold quite well &period; A sequel to the game therefore seems quite likely&period; Then there is<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;rumour-just-cause-3-will-launch-2015&sol;"> the much rumoured Just Cause 3<&sol;a>&period; Whilst Just Cause 2 was originally single player only&comma; an official mod released last December added an online multiplayer mode&period;  Just Cause 3 will likely have that mode included in the initial package&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Square Enix is hopeful that these major new titles will help them continue to grow and perform well&period;  Over the past year the company made a profit of &dollar;65 million which it attributed  the favourable sales of Thief&comma; Tomb Raider&colon; Definitive Edition and Final Fantasy X&sol;X-2 HD Remaster&period; Lightning Returns&colon; Final Fantasy XIII was conspicuously absent from this list&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2014-05-12-west-made-large-scale-online-titles-from-square-enix-this-financial-year">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;