Square Enix Seeks Aggressive Expansion
Square Enix has barely made its entrance into the Western gaming market with the purchase of Eidos. And apparently, this is just the beginning. Wada has stated that the company will consider making other purchases in the future. Square Enix has long wanted to expand further into Western markets, and their purchase of this high profile UK publisher firmly puts its plans in motion.
In an interview Wada has criticized the current state of the Japanese development community for its lack of innovation and new ideas. Hopefully the acquisition of a Western developer will help to infuse new life in Square Enix and the Japanese development industry as well.
Some Western influence wouldn’t hurt Square Enix, but didn’t we fall in love with the company for its stellar RPGs? Maybe their sales would increase if they finally went ahead and released a game for the system. I wonder if this shift in focus has anything to do with Square Enix’s new console support policy? There is also a long line of PS3 owners that are dying for a flood of RPGs. Just saying…
10 Responses to “Square Enix Seeks Aggressive Expansion”
Now SE owns Eidos, new news to me. I wonder the PS3 will get the shaft from Eidos that we have felt from SE, now that SE owns Eidos.
Not likely, Batman : Arkham is made by Eidos, and currently has exclusive PS3 content coming as well.
So far FF13 VS is still a PS3 exclusive, guess we will see come E3.
if they dropped FF VS for the 360 id still get the games but lose more respect for them (if any left)
i also dont wanna hear any bull “this is just business” no shit… don’t make promises than break them last minute and shaft the PS3 owners out of these “multi platform games” it talks so much about…..
360-3
PS3-0.1 ( a demo)
Eidos had some pretty good games. But the learning curve for a few of them was a killer!
Eidos hasn’t put out a good game in years….so SE owning them could be a good thing or bad. Either way they both need to show more love for the PS3 and its huge potential. If they think they can’t make a good game, then they need to drive/fly over to Guriella games and Konami to talk to those boys… Killzone 2 and MGS 4 are by far the best visually and game play wise on the ps3….. Take notes SE and Eidos, you got big shoes to fill.
I lost respect for SE.
Jeeze -_-
maybe by merging they can pull both companies out of their funks.
Just don’t be like Activision and pump out quantity instead of quality.
I was hoping the activision blizzard movement would get Activision to stop this 13 games in 3 years vision that they have for the future. I just hope Harmonix doesn’t follow suit.
Right now is a confusing time. The most beefy genres around are currently on life support. Things are looking good for a recovery but it doesn’t look like a full recovery. Companies that used to make quality have been going downhill. Companies that used to make crap are starting to innovate and make interesting titles.
I just hope that we can start getting some fan favorites on the PSN. That’s not too much to ask is it?
Sneeches lets not forget Insomniac Games:
Ratchet & Clank: ToD
Resistance 1 & 2
Ratchet & Clank: Crack in Time – comming soon.
Also Naughty Dog, Uncharted is an amazing game as well.
We are really fortunate to have such great developers making games we can enjoy.