Square Enix does not know where some of its old games are

Square Enix, one of the largest video game publishers on the planet, wants to bring together its entire catalog of games so that it can sell / stream them online. But there is only one small problem: it lacks older games.

In an interview with Game Informer This week at E3, Square's president, Yosuke Matsuda, was asked about the idea that big publishers make their back catalogs available as part of a service. "The most classic titles you could play on NES, we are still working hard to do it so you can play them," he said. "We have actually launched a dedicated project internally to bring these. We are working to make them available on various platforms. We would certainly like to see this on a subscription or streaming service, so we are exploring the possibility of creating a dedicated channel for ourselves. "

It looks good! Except for, you know, all the missing games.

"I'm embarrassed to admit it, but in some cases we do not know where the code is anymore," says Matsuda. "It's very difficult to find them sometimes, because during the day you did them and put them outside. It was finished. You did not think about how you would sell them later. Sometimes customers ask, "Why did not you publish this [game] And yet, it's because we do not know where he went. "

It's both crazy (it's a big publisher!) But also quite understandable (the 80's were a long time ago!). It's easy to look back in 2019, with all we know about game retention and the value of some of these titles / series, and gaspBut as Matsuda basically says, the early development of the console was just a good way, and I doubt that anyone at Square or Enix could have predicted how huge their unified society would be at this point in the 21st century. century.

Unfortunately, we do not know exactly which I miss games, but I hope to write in a year or two the following story "Oh Nevermind Square In Them Found Them", when an empty office will find an old box of dusty disks stored behind posters. The bouncer.