

Now they're engaged, they just can't announce it for extremely obvious reasons. All it took was a little flirting with Phil.
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You're acting like they were getting the milk for free forever. Why? It's an obvious move to slim down to sell to Sony. The very first sentence of your post, Squeenix sold off their entire western development divison. What has happened since then? Every final fantasy game uncermoniously delisted from game pass. Do you not remember the amount of flirting with Squeenix and Xbox in 2019? Every FF on Gamepass? FFXIV coming to Xbox? Octopath Traveler launching on Xbox day 1 on game pass? FFVIIR exclusivity expiration date RIGHT ON THE BOX. They're only getting the milk since they've agreed to being bought, everything for the past year has been in preparation.

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Kingdom hearts series was half Sony exclusive and half Nintendo exclusive until the bundle a few years back. I just think they have a cozy setup of washing each other's backs, with an eye toward blackmailing MS for big payouts which isn't working Are you dissing my Knack? Nobody disses my To be fair, Nintendo fans were livid when Square omitted Switch with the original mobile-only pixel remasters.Square really makes no sense and offends everyone. If S-E ends up for sale, either it's a fire sale and Sony just buys the IP and axes most of the studios, or it sells to someone else, but I'm not convinced they're for sale at all. I think there's financial issues going on there in general, but I also don't think Sony gets any value out of buying it that they don't already get for less. This weird push to rush out games, seems, to me, to tie into their sudden rush to sell more than half their studios at an extremely low price for unimaginable reasons (reasons that likely involve bundling immense debt into it and offloading it) and the intention to funnel all that money into NFTs ,which they then had to backpeddle. Buying the Japanese-only studios nets them very little of value to their overall direction and strategy that a few paid for exclusives to secure J-content console buyers continued business.

And Sony's Western focus means that Square would have had more value with the western studios in tact. There's no incentive to buy unless they buy for the mobile assets. They get most of the financial and market benefit from Square's value, with very little expense and zero risk. They use their market dominance and a small tithe to secure the most important titles from Square. Sony's getting the milk, they don't need to buy the cow, the grazing lands, and the vet bills. That's fanboy nonsense that doesn't make financial sense for either company. Your idea of "perfect" is the same as Todd I don't think Sony is buying Square. Kingdom Hearts.is a mess of games with a mess of a story, staggered across a mess of consoles until recently, and the latest game is.well.Īnd Final.I mean.have you played them in the last 15 years? Or did I mean to say the last one released over 15 years? And didn't bother including most of the Japanese audio, before "fixing" it by releasing the corrected game with a large visual downgrade, as a totally new game on PS, then added Xbox. They released DQXI on PS and 3DS and not Switch even though they announced Switch first. We're talking about the publisher that liquidated 70% of their studios for the price of a medium business, and staggers their series across different consoles, while always expecting sales that nobody could ever expect are possible, yet are always surprised at the failure to meet expectations.Īnd we're trying to think logically about why this company does what it perfect are ones starting with Final, Dragon and Kingdom"
