Deus Ex: Human Revolution Delayed

Those of us hoping to fire up a copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution on its expected release day of March 8th, 2011 have much to be disappointed about today, as Square Enix has cut its profits forecast by 90% percent due in part to the delay of Eidos Montreal’s cyberpunk RPG until the next fiscal year (April or later) for “further polish”.

The firm’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution was originally slated for release in the January to March 2011 quarter, but the company will now “spend additional time to further polish” the Eidos Montreal title, which will launch at some time from April 2011 onwards.

Overall, the company cut its net profit forecast to 1 billion yen ($11.9 million) for the year ending March 31st, 2011, from 12 billion ($142.8 million) yen previously forecast.

In addition, Square Enix’s revenue forecast was dropped from 160 billion yen ($1.90 billion) to 130 billion yen (1.54 billion).

This compares very poorly to Square Enix’s fiscal year to March 2010, which included the launch of Final Fantasy XIII, but had 192 billion yen ($2.28 billion) in revenue and 9 billion yen ($110.7 million) in profits.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution now joins another key title in the company’s line-up, Final Fantasy XIV for PlayStation 3, in being pushed back to the next financial year.