Square Enix has had a troubling time this generation in producing quality products, especially within its key franchises on next generation consoles. Despite branching out and trying its hand at new roleplaying titles over the past four years, the developer/publisher has delivered average title after average title. Finally, with the release of Final Fantasy XIII, most SE supporters finally expected the company to get things right, but the game was met with a lot of criticism as well.

Despite these poor performances, Square Enix boss, Yoichi Wada, still has high hopes for two of the company’s largest franchises — Deus Ex and Final Fantasy. Speaking with MCV, Wada explained that if Deus Ex: Human Revolution goes as planned, the developer would like to take a ten year approach to the franchise and release several installment over the next decade. Wada also mentioned the same plan for Final Fantasy so long as there is franchise support.

“We have dozens of IPs, some of which we wish to build into franchises,” Square CEO Yoichi Wada told MCV. “Deus Ex 3, for example, is something we’re trying to revive. We want to keep on producing profit from that IP for the next ten years.

“Final Fantasy has always been a bread-earner for us. It has always been profitable. Of course, we would like to be expanding on those two key IPs [Final Fantasy and Deus Ex), and others that are very strong to us.

“We would like Final Fantasy to continue as long as there are the customers who support Final Fantasy.”

It should come as no surprise that Square Enix wishes to continue to push Final Fantasy titles out to the masses as it is the franchise that saved the company and put it on the map. However, SE has a lot of hard work ahead of itself if it plans on bringing the franchise back to the days of glory filled with FFVI-X. Hopefully the talented studio can pull in the reins and manage it, if not, I’ll be a very sad panda.