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Eidos Montreal founder: "I heard rumours that Sony said they're really interested in [acquiring] Square Enix Tokyo, but not the rest."
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
So who is part of SE Tokyo? The FF teams?
I will be ok with that.
I will be ok with that.
Captain Toad
Banned
A rumor that a Japanese studio will be acquired by one of the big 3? Wow. These always end up true!
Punished Miku
Gold Member
SQEX just published Power Washing Simulator. Not surprised that everyone is looking to get a piece of that action.
GhostOfTsu
Banned
The most obvious acquisition ever but Sony is so unpredictable they will acquire some random company in China instead.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
If they really do acquire them, it doesn't honestly impact Xbox that much. It's a loss for Nintendo though, who gets a lot of great smaller AA titles.
Nintendo should consider letting Monolith put out some smaller AA games and add a new team or something. And a lot of those games are made by studios outside SQEX that Nintendo might look into a closer relationship with. Acquire, Artdink, etc.
Nintendo should consider letting Monolith put out some smaller AA games and add a new team or something. And a lot of those games are made by studios outside SQEX that Nintendo might look into a closer relationship with. Acquire, Artdink, etc.
Crispy Gamer
Member
So Sony had SE to shed weight for the eventual acquisition? Some people here predicted that
Beer Baelly
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Phil needs to book a flight a$ap
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What. The. Fuck. I legit thought that was a fly by night title that just randomly caught on with gamers.
CunningPlan
Neo Member
I really hope Sony do manage to pull this off so they can focus SE on what they are good at and stop them chasing weird trends like they have been trying and failing to do.
.Pennywise
Banned
Embracer got a fucking sweet deal taking the best IPs from Square and leaving the weeb stuff on the table
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Ghost of Caelid
Banned
Sony acquiring square changes the industry in 0 ways since they money hat all their games anyway. might as well so we stop thinking "when is x square game coming to xbox"...also doubt they take the games off the switch.
Guilty_AI
Member
What a coincidence, i also keep hearing rumors about that. All the time.
wait..... its true. I didn't expect such a plot twist coming into this thread.
Jimmyisback
Banned
MS needs to get in there pronto. Time for a Japanese publisher for Xbox.
Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
Waste of money
SteelCurtain 59
Member
Might as well, they already moneyhat the Final Fantasy series, at least by buying the devs it might help the games' quality which is always a good thing
Chukhopops
Member
Why buy the cow when you already have the expired milk?
Nobody else would buy SE and Sony has the exclusives they want from them. Big doubt but maybe I’ll be wrong.
Nobody else would buy SE and Sony has the exclusives they want from them. Big doubt but maybe I’ll be wrong.
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
I mean...is anyone surprised by this?
I wouldn't be surprised if Capcom is on the list as well. They are already doing mocap at Sony's studios and everything lmao
I wouldn't be surprised if Capcom is on the list as well. They are already doing mocap at Sony's studios and everything lmao
Javthusiast
Banned
Marvel (and by extension Disney) are about to show what you can do when you put competent people in charge of your IP's (talking about the FOX IP's they got back). So no, SONY getting the prime and choice bits of SE IP's would not have "zero impact. . ."
Maybe if they literally did NOTHING with the titles.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
The studio who makes FF Online has value. All the other studios are dinosaurs.
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Ghost of Caelid
Banned
Disney has ran their IPs into the ground these past 3 years...
I never said 0 impact but 0 change.
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
This is a war about getting IPs. Sony will want studios that have always been close to them. Square Enix is one of those cases.
Specially now they are all-in on subscription services. This isn't just about getting IPs. It's about others not getting them and have more to themselves (PSPlus in this case).
If square Enix is suddenly bought by Sony do you believe their games wouldn't leave gamepass as soon as those deals are done?
STARSBarry
Gold Member
People joke but damn if that game isent just some good clean fun.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Dragon Quest would have to go to streaming or mobile. People aren't buying lots of PS consoles in Japan.
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ManaByte
Gold Member
If the PS5 was the only place to get the latest mainline Dragon Quest, people will line up to buy it in Japan.
Hell by then Sony will have a "Slim" PS5 ready to go and do a Slim PS5/DQ bundle to own the country forever.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
It wouldn't dethrone Nintendo in any way, whatsoever. That's a fantasy.
ManaByte
Gold Member
You underestimate the power of Dragon Quest in Japan.
Hell Sega even referenced it in Yakuza.
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mortal
Gold Member
It would be a waste of money acquiring some of the most talented Japanese game designers and commercially successful IPs? What?
Punished Miku
Gold Member
We don't have to debate it. Just look at the sales numbers of DQ compared to Nintendo games.
Badlucktroll
Member
They should also buy Konami digital entertainment for the Konami IPs.
Yes. Those poor suffering MCU movies that just can't rub two nickels together. The inevitable Fantastic Four/X-Men movies are just DoA at this point. /s
. . .honestly, if you legitimately believe that SONY getting their hands on FF and DQ (and other properties) and refocusing their usage in games, would have zero impact or change on the industry, then maybe you just don't understand the industry.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Final Fantasy has already been locked in on Sony since FFVII. It's not much of a big change. FF doesn't have any big games on Xbox. Not much of a big change.
SQEX has lots of great AA games on Switch though. That's about the only major change in my opinion. PS is already a SQEX box, and has been since it launched.
balls of snow
Member
Rip deus ex. Even sony doesnt like your cybernetic ass. 
Source article of all this information
Games Industry.biz
A nice tidbit in the source article, is that D'astous said that he believed SE was always blaming non Japanese games for under-performance. I remember when Tomb Raider first launched it sold 5 million copies (initially) on a reboot of a supposed burned out franchise (14.5 million todate), and SE went on record saying it under-performed. Yet Final Fantasy 15 sells 10 million copies of a game that took over 6 years to make and not a word of disappointment.
1. I think SE has a non-Japanese culture bias towards any foreign holding. It is not the first time they have thrown non Japanese studios under a bus. Especially when their own Japanese IPs under-perform and yet are never mentioned in the same breath as other IPs they own.
2. I think D'Astoous is on the right path believing SE wants to sell their soul to Sony and are willing to do anything to get that.
Games Industry.biz
A nice tidbit in the source article, is that D'astous said that he believed SE was always blaming non Japanese games for under-performance. I remember when Tomb Raider first launched it sold 5 million copies (initially) on a reboot of a supposed burned out franchise (14.5 million todate), and SE went on record saying it under-performed. Yet Final Fantasy 15 sells 10 million copies of a game that took over 6 years to make and not a word of disappointment.
1. I think SE has a non-Japanese culture bias towards any foreign holding. It is not the first time they have thrown non Japanese studios under a bus. Especially when their own Japanese IPs under-perform and yet are never mentioned in the same breath as other IPs they own.
2. I think D'Astoous is on the right path believing SE wants to sell their soul to Sony and are willing to do anything to get that.
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Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Rip deus ex. Even sony doesnt like your cybernetic ass.
All the North American studios and IPs were sold to Embracer.
Deus Ex, Tomb Raider will come back under Embracer
balls of snow
Member
Yeah but not at the budget we are used to under square. Talk about a real money furnace with these ip's.