Square Enix: the success of the franchise is judged by the third game

Yosuke Matsuda, senior managing director of Square Enix, believes that there is no need to expect much from the new game. We can talk about the success of the series closer to the third project. He said this in an interview with the Kotaku resource.

On the photo: Yosuke Matsuda. The image is from here
In other words, it is safe to say whether the license “fired” or not after the release of not even the second, but the third part of the game, Matsuda believes.

“The new IP needs to be cultivated, it is very important. This is my personal experience, but I think it’s difficult to build a large franchise from scratch. If you look at the gaming industry in retrospect, many games have become successful only for the third time,” says Matsuda. He does not give examples of such projects.

We believe that the idea is controversial. On the one hand, if the project “lived up” to the third series, then the franchise is certainly strong. On the other hand, how many examples of really successful third parts of games are known to the industry?

A source: http://kotaku.com