Square Enix plans to change development structures & slim down lineups. |UP| Board meeting info. $140 Million Hit in "Content Abandonment losses"

[Eternal_Wings]

You guys clearly have no clue what you're saying. Sony invests a lot in Square aside their games. For many decades Sony is adapting Square Enix' Gangan Comics Mangas to Anime. The majority of Square Enix video game music were recorded with Sony Music Japan labels. Sony has a lot of Hardware collaborations with Square's franchises: Blu-ray player, Soundbars, Xperia Phones,Walkman and Headsets designed with SE staff. For example the Kingdom Hearts anniversary Headsets. Or now in the present Sony is the exclusive partner for advertising their electronic products with Square Enix franchises. Sony would love to own Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest plus getting KH exclusive from Disney would be easier to negotiate. Also this 100% no fluke. If the talks started in mid of 2022, then this negotiations will take time.

Eidos Montreal Founder Confirms Sony’s Interest in Buying Square Enix

The founder of game company Eidos Montreal has recently confirmed in an interview that Sony was actually interested in buying Square Enix. Founder Stephane D’Astous recently spoke with media outlet GamesIndustry.biz talking about his experience with Square Enix. He revealed some very interesting...

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[Yurinka]

@Yurinka its clear at this point that XVI and Rebirth bot underperformed and the IP is more diminished than it has been at any point since the original VII came out. You can't defend this, S-E is in deep shit.

In a fantasy land world with fairies and flying pink ponies maybe. In the real world the factual data says that this is not the case at all.

 

[Vertigo]

They’re still feeling repurcussions of trash releases like Forspoken, Babylon’s Fall, Star Ocean and the rest of the dumpster fire flops. Thankfully they already shut down the forspoken studio.

They’ll probably gut some more. Only expecting one FF team outside of the mmo and dragon quest moving forward.

Which… wouldn’t be too bad of a plan. More focus on tentpole releases and AAA than middling trash and their back to back failures in online multiplayer outside of ff14.

14’s dawntrail expansion will save em for the year.

 

[ethomaz]

Infinitely better than the nearly 3 bil for bungie

That is based on what?

Did Square Enix made more profit than Bungie in the last years?

 

[Vertigo]

That is based on what?

Did Square Enix made more profit than Bungie in the last years?

Most likely not in the last decade. Bungie and one game was comparable to zenimax as a whole. Considering that Destiny is back to normal with playerbase these last two months before an expansion release… lols

 

[Etifilio]

Being selective with development resources sounds like no more Xbox ports.

looking at the performance of FF14 on Xbox, i would not be shocked

 

[ethomaz]

Most likely not in the last decade. Bungie and one game was comparable to zenimax as a whole. Considering that Destiny is back to normal with playerbase these last two months before an expansion release… lols

Every year people says Destiny is dying but when I look at the stats...

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I can't see a game getting these numbers daily with a user base that brought the last expansion being lower than 10 million.
That alone gives over $500 million in revenue per expansion.
Plus the amount of micro transaction this game do is crazy.

And it is 10 years after the game released.