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[StereoVsn]

If Dragon Quest won't be staying multiplatform (Horii himself heavily hinted at wanting DQ to be multiplatform after DQ11), I bet Nintendo's gonna do a Sony and try to block the deal.

That's a hard argument to land in post Activision acquisition world.

 

[ToadMan]

I agree that I don’t think it’s about an acquisition (who knows), but I wouldn’t be surprised to see SOCOM announced soon.

I trust Colin a lot who has said he heard they were potentially making it again. Fits the S, even though the “x” wouldn’t make me think it would just be a game announcement but more of a crossover.

Who knows.

SOCOM would be noce to see to get another round.

I’d be happy with a remake of one or more of the old ones so they don’t have to invent a new formula.

 

[ToadMan]

Snafu remake by BluePoint.

It’s all about timing.

Sony just signed a deal with MS…

It’s obvious isn’t it?

Spoiler

Scalebound has been resurrected and its a PS timed exclusive - the exclusivity is only X hours though.

 

[rofif]

There is no S or P in bloodborne

 

[simpatico]

Well they should have to go through a lengthy court process so we can determine if they're being meanies or not.

 

[Ronin_7]

Well they should have to go through a lengthy court process so we can determine if they're being meanies or not.

Should be a easy bought Square Enix.

Hard ones would be EA or T2.

 

[Virex]

Spencer, Phil?

 

[Ogbert]

I don’t really understand the excitement around Square Enic.

It’s basically Final Fantasy. Do they make anything else?

 

[rofif]

Well they should have to go through a lengthy court process so we can determine if they're being meanies or not.

I don’t remember that happening with Bethesda. Microsoft got them rather quick

 

[simdog461]

Should be a easy bought Square Enix.

Hard ones would be EA or T2.

I honestly think Sony will go for two out of the three of these.

They're going to be forced into going down this road, or risk being left behind.

 

[simdog461]

I don’t really understand the excitement around Square Enic.

It’s basically Final Fantasy. Do they make anything else?

Nier, Dragon Quest, Kingdom hearts.

Until recently- Tomb Raider and Deus Ex.

 

[Fabieter]

I would agree if sqaure was a private company but they aint.

 

[Ogbert]

Nier, Dragon Quest, Kingdom hearts.

Until recently- Tomb Raider and Deus Ex.

Fair enough.

They’re all a bit niche though. It’s not that they’re not good games. Just don’t see why Sony needs them.

 

[simdog461]

Fair enough.

They’re all a bit niche though. It’s not that they’re not good games. Just don’t see why Sony needs them.

They do pump out a lot of stuff though. So it adds up I guess.

 

[The artful mincer]

Fair enough.

They’re all a bit niche though. It’s not that they’re not good games. Just don’t see why Sony needs them.

FF14 brings in mega bucks I'am pretty sure.

 

[Kurimao]

Fair enough.

They’re all a bit niche though. It’s not that they’re not good games. Just don’t see why Sony needs them.

 

[RoboFu]

If anyone was for sale right now it would be square-enix.

All the other dreamed up companies like capcom- no way. They are doing too good to sell.

 

[Moses85]

Fuck off with this acquisition bullshit. We've had enough of those wankers for a lifetime.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Hopefully the proper authorities step in to block this.

 

[SplunkyMunkey]

I think square already makes ps5 exclusives anyways for sony to capitalise they would need Sega and t2 or EA

 

[TLZ]

Phil x Sega.

 

[Ar¢tos]

What small indie studio with a name starting with "S" has Sony been working with?

 

[THE DUCK]

Well of course both companies would want each other out of business. The difference for me is, Sony at least have done what they've done for PlayStation, for the most part, leveraging the strengths of the actual division. The 3P exclusivity deals, hardware R&D investments, marketing efforts etc. have been done with a mix of PlayStation's own valuation within the company, which I would say is accurately reflective of its revenue and therein its profits as a division/subsidiary of Sony.

Microsoft have made the Zenimax & ABK purchases based off no merits of Xbox itself as a division; rather, they're turning to their much more lucrative divisions, leveraging their revenue, profits, and market valuations, to pump all of this excessive money into Xbox itself. What's more, they don't even actually "need" gaming revenue in the way Sony or Nintendo do. There's nothing saying what Microsoft is doing in that regard is illegal (otherwise they'd be prevented from doing it in any market), but I can choose to respect Sony's method for gaming growth and turn my eye to Microsoft's, because one's based on merit of their performance in the gaming market, and the other simply is not.

I think it's way too easy to dismiss what MS has done hardware and software wise over the long term. Sure you can respect Sony's path a bit more, but in the end they are just behemoths who don't really care about anything other than keeping us giving them money.
None of it is driven by "true" caring for gamers.

 

[SiriusBlack]

Well as expected this turned out to be a gigantic nothingburger. Cryptic attention seeking tweets don’t mean Jack. Who knew.

 

[Brock2621]

Well as expected this turned out to be a gigantic nothingburger. Cryptic attention seeking tweets don’t mean Jack. Who knew.

What’s the update?

 

[Astray]

I think it's way too easy to dismiss what MS has done hardware and software wise over the long term.

Developing the online infrastructure + making console arch closer and closer to x86 are huge steps to the gaming landscape we have today.

I think Xbox's biggest failing has (and kinda still is) original IP creation. I think that and their overall.. re-activeness in the market has been their greatest weakness. Let's see if they can change that.

 

[WilliamB]

Square and Sony are publicly traded companies if it get leaked will be minutes before the announcement not hours.

 

[Unknown?]

I don’t really understand the excitement around Square Enic.

It’s basically Final Fantasy. Do they make anything else?

Who cares? 70B to buy just COD with every other franchise they own dying or already dead. Sony can do the same!

 

[FStubbs]

That's a hard argument to land in post Activision acquisition world.

At the very least they'd be able to extract conditions that Square Enix continues to release on Nintendo hardware.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Is this one of those prophecy scams where you say vague stuff so anything that happens in the future fits?

 

[Guilty_AI]

I don’t really understand the excitement around Square Enic.

It’s basically Final Fantasy. Do they make anything else?

Their AA output is pretty good. Is the non-FF AAA stuff that tends to be questionable.

 

[Fabieter]

If Dragon Quest won't be staying multiplatform (Horii himself heavily hinted at wanting DQ to be multiplatform after DQ11), I bet Nintendo's gonna do a Sony and try to block the deal.

Maybe they could strike a deal to exchange dragon quest for xenoblade. Would love to play xenoblade on higher ress and textures without the need of an emulator.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

In your (demented) dreams only.

 

[JackMcGunns]

We'll hear about it on Wednesday

 

[Panajev2001a]

Let's see if they can change that.

Spending $80 Billion buying the biggest multiplatform publishers and competitors having to get deals to make sure they do not yank all the games away right away does not spell confidence in new IP creation being the most important thing for the same management that delivered the situation you would like to change…

 

[Saber]

I like your threads Drago, but this is a lameass clickbait one.

 

[Disco Dave]

Someone call the acquisition police.

 

[Honey Bunny]

Please fucking no. They will westernize their games even more than before.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Then they should make a 10 year deal with MS for FF games like MS did with COD.

 

[Draugoth]

I like your threads Drago, but this is a lameass clickbait one.

OP needs to be banned from making threads, asap.

Im sadly not perfect.

That would be Super Perfect Cell.

Spoiler: spoiler

I fucked up bad this time, my apologizes

 

[DryvBy]

I'm willing to bet S is pSychonauts 2 on PS5.

 

[Astray]

That's a hard argument to land in post Activision acquisition world.

Yep, if you can't make the argument that fucking with COD, as lucrative as it is, could be anti-competitive, it will be basically impossible to do so with like, Final Fantasy or DQ.

Maybe Final Fantasy 14 but Sony aren't as cash-rich as Microsoft is, they will probably try and grow the MMO part and being on Switch 2 or Xbox is crucial for that. Having a Series S or a Switch 2 as a baseline isn't bad either because MMOs need to have a low baseline for cheap PCs anyways.

The bigger problem to me is Sony increasingly catering to the west while Square still has Japan on its mind, which might bring some friction between parties there.

Spending $80 Billion buying the biggest multiplatform publishers and competitors having to get deals to make sure they do not yank all the games away right away does not spell confidence in new IP creation being the most important thing for the same management that delivered the situation you would like to change…

To be clear: I have no illusions that they somehow figured it out. But I am also open to being proven wrong.

If you ask me what I think personally, I think this takes us far closer to Microsoft going the gargantuan 3P/Steam competitor route than it takes us to Xbox as a console and ecosystem going back on top. But we'll see.

 

[Hudo]

Maybe they could strike a deal to exchange dragon quest for xenoblade. Would love to play xenoblade on higher ress and textures without the need of an emulator.

Xenoblade is a Nintendo IP, though.

 

[Auto_aim1]

How much is SE market cap? If it's anything above $5 billion... acquisition is not going to happen. Sony spent a lot of money buying Bungie and I don't think they have a big enough warchest yet to go after SE.

Indie studio makes more sense tbh.

 

[Punished Miku]

Aspyr
SHIFT UP Corporation

 

[Tommi84]

PSX. They're doing a PSX Slimmer-Slim-remake!!

 

[NahaNago]

I'm completely mixed on if this would even be a good thing or not. My inner fanboy says yes but I'd honestly prefer the buying Capcom. With that said, buying Squareenix would give Sony a lot more smaller games every year.

 

[Pelta88]

According to Square's premarket stock price there is zero truth to this.

If by some st range turn of events this happens to be true the "The Snitch" has access to the higher echelons and ceos in Sony/gaming. But insider trading would have sent Square's stock price "To The Moon" if this had some credence. But right now the share price is flat.

We gotta stop letting these "insider" dweebs attention.

 

[Fabieter]

Xenoblade is a Nintendo IP, though.

Well dragon quest is a sony ip if they buy sqaure.

 

[DenchDeckard]

10 year deal with Microsoft coming up?