Square Enix Set To Take Over Eidos

lukeb4dunk - 261 days 7 hours ago

now it's about rehashing every single Final Fantasy title in one form or the other.

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SaiyanFury - 261 days 4 hours ago

It's official: Square-Enix is officially a corporation hell bent on making money and not a developer focused on making good games. I guess it had to happen sometime.....

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Kigmal - 261 days 4 hours ago

I'm sure it's because of their history back in the day and need a push in the western market. Remember Eidos published FF7 and FF8 on PC.

Also, the SE games on the DS were good (The World Ends With You and FF Tactics A2), and everyone was excited about Crisis Core on PSP when it came out.

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The Matrix - 261 days 3 hours ago

If that ga.y@$$ japanese developer takes over semi good games (hitman, tomb raider etc) there's going to be heads rolling.

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Tony P - 261 days 1 hour ago

I don't think taking over Eidos means they're tossing Nomura on Tomb Raider. In fact, quite the opposite. SE wants an inside route to Western gaming dollars and I don't think they'd get that by shoehorning Japanese policies on already successful devs who understand what we want over here. If anything, I think they'll try to keep learning first-hand the methodology of how to produce a game that will sell in the West instead of further mangling JRPGs to (badly) suit that function.

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Foxgod - 261 days 1 hour ago

for the record, all developer studio's out there are looking to make money, they are businesses after all, they dont work for fun.

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lukeb4dunk - 261 days 7 hours ago

But if they just concentrated on making new and better games instead of re-releasing older titles or all those spin-offs, then maybe they would see their profits rise. As I quote Field of Dreams, "If they build it, they will come."

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evrfighter - 261 days 3 hours ago

In case you handn't noticed. This isn't exactly the time to be sitting around catering to the smaller hardcore rpg crowd. Last I checked they are losing money

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FarEastOrient - 261 days 2 hours ago

Increased profit margin? Tomb Raider didn't even sell enough to keep the company financially afloat.

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The_Zeitgeist - 261 days 7 hours ago

Hitman RPG

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Da One - 261 days 5 hours ago

the only thing new that "they" put out in was Last Remnant and TWEWY(Jupiter Games helped)

Anything else they put out was either port/spinoff/remake(quite a few)

said ports and remakes where mostly handled by other studios.

Spinoff's were mostly in house(CC:FFVII and Dissidia), mostly.

anyway

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SpoonyRedMage - 261 days 5 hours ago

The Last Remnant, TWEWY, Song Summoner and I think some spin offs count as new, like Chocobo Tales and Dissidia may be an FF but it's a different concept and style. And there's the new game Blood of Bahamut although that may be tied with Final Fantasy.

And the majority of the games they develop stay in Japan(like the arcade games), the majority we see(assuming you're a westerner) are either franchise games or are only published by Square Enix.

My point is though that their new IPs and original ideas don't do well and that goes back many years, ever heard of the bouncer? it's a decent game not great but not bad either did patheticly.

EDIT: I do agree that they seem to be developing less and less and publishing more and more though but it seems to help the smaller studios so that's good.

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Da One - 261 days 4 hours ago

Great looking game but was to short and too repetitive, Decent indeed but like i've stating in other articles when you have 10 year old ports outselling your new IP's(average at best, Go SO4 for breaking that cycle) you need to seriously re-think the future of your company.

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SpoonyRedMage - 261 days 4 hours ago

Well we're kind of in agreement then. Their (admittedly rare) new IPs just don't do as well as the ports and the remakes which is part of the reason why they make so many I think.

It's because there's a big difference between Square Enix fans and people who play FF(or their other popular series) games. Most people aren't looking for Square Enix RPGs, they're looking for FF/DQ/KH/SO/Mana/Saga which are all excellent series but they are restricting Square Enix from getting new IPs and series out there because they're not really wanted.

EDIT: Where we disagree though is that I think their new IPs are average at worst.;) The Last Remnant's my favourite console RPG of this gen(for now).

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Tony P - 261 days 1 hour ago

Spoony, you bring some level-headedness to this subject and I'm right with you. I believe the phrase is "bubbles for you" you spoony red mage.

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Da One - 261 days ago

Their living off MS handouts(agree or disagree day and date releases do not just fall out the sky), PSP, DS games alone.........nothing innovative, just games we played 10+ years ago

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SpoonyRedMage - 261 days 4 hours ago

Well there aim is to appeal more to Western gamers so I doubt they'll mess about too much, although they may let 'em use the Crystal Tools engine for future games(Deus Ex 3 is already in development right?).

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Dark General - 261 days 4 hours ago

Indeed it is already in development. Details are very sparse but it's at least confirmed for PC so far. And you're right about the Crystal Tools thing. Specially since they had been (pardon the pun) retooled for multiplatform development.

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SpoonyRedMage - 261 days 1 hour ago

They'll be remaining Eidos and Square Enix it's just that on all the legal bits it will claim that Eidos is property of Square Enix or something. They're remaining separate like how you don't get Final Fantasy: Space Invaders(which now that I think about it could be awesome). I'm referring to the fact they own Taito by the way.;)

@Tony P:Oh yes thanks for the bubbles and the compliments.

@V: I think Square Enix could publish it on their own now anyways but if not then yes it does make sense.

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Nuri - 260 days 23 hours ago

Ah okay, I thought their might be a crossbreeding of games and different games coming about due to this. If their staying two different companies then that's cool to. Tough some ideas I'd really kind of like to see pan out :). A platforming Final Fantasy or something? That hopefully won't be to short..

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The_Zeitgeist - 261 days 7 hours ago

RPG's suck ass mostly.

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