Square’s franchise-pimping “new business model”: Updated!

Update: So, the guys over at PlayStation Universe didn't cite a source for this story, which was wise, because it turns out that it's bogus. Seeing as how I along with the guys at Joystiq, Siliconera, and EvilAvatar were not really able to decipher the moon language on Square-Enix's Japanese Web site, the story was posted damn near everywhere. Chris Kohler put the pieces together — namely, older Digg stories with similarly-worded verbiage — and traced the "story" back to its source: an unfunny fake news report from an unfunny fake gaming news site.
The good news is that there's no indication — no valid indication, anyway — that Square-Enix is about to jump the shark in any official capacity. Square-Enix, however, is still churning out sequels and spinoffs by the truckload, just sans mission statement. Sort of funny that something this silly could be made so believable by Square-Enix's development […]

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