Embracer Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, Square Enix Montréal (~1,100 employees) and a catalogue of IPs including Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, etc (total up $300M)

[Failwood]

Good thing they went to embracer. We might finally see a Deus Ex sequel.

[Staffy]

@Friday

Now if Embracer makes Sleeping Dogs 2 then I win

If a new Sleeping Dogs comes it’s reason to throw a goddamn party. Been so angry at SE for messing that up.

[Hindle]

@Staffy

Imran said MS was one of the interested parties though. TT with Lego games are big sellers, super popular, how could they not be interested in that? I don’t think MS is only after bigger fish now, its just that ABK was too good to pass up on.

WB and Eidos are small fry though, they want the biggest.

[Deus (Encyclopaedia Ludica)]

Square Enix

[Joe_Sinister1 (Joe_Sinister)]

@DARK-PARADISE

The thing with this is MS has a franchise of theirs now tied to Crystal Dynamics. How does this affect it? How does MS not already have secured it already, even before ABK was even an idea. What if Prefect Dark takes off and needs support and sequels, are they gonna be allowed to continue to contract CD?

I mean PD being an FPS, they could easily put Tryarch or Infinity Ward on it (between COD) if they need to. Assuming they own them at that time.

[Hindle]

@Failwood

Good thing they went to embracer. We might finally see a Deus Ex sequel.

Has to be a given.

[Ruthwik_Rao]

@Friday

Now if Embracer makes Sleeping Dogs 2 then I win

as much as we’re all kinda shell shocked by this news, it’s the best thing to have happened to these studios. SE was gonna bury them any moment now. And Embracer explicitly mentioned they care about singleplayer AAA experiences (something these studios have been known for) and most of games under Embracer lack any sort of bullshit SE was employing as of late, so I’m not that concerned about this. In fact, Deus Ex has a far bigger chance to return now. Hopefully Embracer got Sleeping Dogs as well.

[Staffy]

@Hindle

WB and Eidos are small fry though, they want the biggest.

In that case MS buys embracer next year.

Nah.

[DARK-PARADISE]

@Joe_Sinister1

I mean PD being an FPS, they could easily put Tryarch or Infinity Ward on it (between COD) if they need to. Assuming they own them at that time.

I’m very sure it doesn’t work like that

[anon74828371]

It’s important to remember that MS seems now interested in acquiring mega-popular IPs (Call of Duty, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Candy Crush, DOOM, etc…) with a broad appeal. To me, it seems the strategy is different than in 2018-2019 when they were acquiring smaller studios with almost no IPs most of the time.

The catalogue of IPs of Square Enix’s western division doesn’t fit much. I think the only IP of value at this point is Tomb Raider but the last one underperformed and Bethesda is working on Indiana Jones. The other ones are dead or forgotten.

[Hindle]

@anon74828371

It’s important to remember that MS seems now interested in acquiring mega-popular IPs (Call of Duty, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Candy Crush, DOOM, etc…) with a broad appeal. To me, it seems the strategy is different than in 2018-2019 when they were acquiring smaller studios with almost no IPs most of the time.

The catalogue of IPs of Square Enix’s western division doesn’t fit much. I think the only IP of value at this point is Tomb Raider but the last one underperformed and Bethesda is working on Indiana Jones. The other ones are dead or forgotten.

Yup. They want the house hold names and nothing from here is any value if I think rationally.

God dam is it hard though as I love this IP

[Joe_Sinister1 (Joe_Sinister)]

@DARK-PARADISE

I’m very sure it doesn’t work like that

I would have said the same if someone had suggested they get Crystal Dynamics who they didn’t own to work on a first party shooter for them but here we are.

[Phalaxis]

[Xboxer_China]

Only 300million＄？How could this be even possible…I can’t believe MS failed locking this one.

[anon81312630]

@CongoJack

Pretty sure they’ve acquired all their western IP’s except Life is Strange, Outriders and Just Cause.

Still can’t believe they got all of that for 300M it make no sense & here i was thinking that CD & Tomb Raider alone is worth atleast 500M and that not including all the other IP’s along with Eidos

[Staffy]

Saw some tweets of folks speculiating that SE is downsizing so that Sony can buy the rest of them. Sony clearly not giving a damn about the western studios. That doesn’t make sense to me though, how would they not want Tomb Raider and these studios?

But I can absolutely see Sony buying SE Japan.

[batman14]

@Staffy

Saw some tweets of folks speculiating that SE is downsizing so that Sony can buy the rest of them. Sony clearly not giving a damn about the western studios. That doesn’t make sense to me though, how would they not want Tomb Raider and these studios?

But I can absolutely see Sony buying SE Japan.

I was thinking of this to but I thought Sony wouldve wanted the TR IP

[Dizzydan015 (Daany)]

@Staffy

Saw some tweets of folks speculiating that SE is downsizing so that Sony can buy the rest of them. Sony clearly not giving a damn about the western studios. That doesn’t make sense to me though, how would they not want Tomb Raider and these studios?

But I can absolutely see Sony buying SE Japan.

Maybe that’s the big one Sony are after based on the rumours but I agree if I were acquiring Square Enix I would have gone all out and got both the western studios and SE Japan. On the plus side at least with Embracer they’re still allowing Crystal Dynamics to work with the Initiative plus I don’t think they’ll make any game exclusive.

[Cpt_Haddock (Peeeter)]

@Staffy

Saw some tweets of folks speculiating that SE is downsizing so that Sony can buy the rest of them. Sony clearly not giving a damn about the western studios. That doesn’t make sense to me though, how would they not want Tomb Raider and these studios?

But I can absolutely see Sony buying SE Japan.

And honestly it wouldn’t be a bad thing, i’d rather them purchase Square and try to fix that mess than just pay for exclusivity from whatever they created.

Lately it really felt like Square Enix was just developing loads of games at the same time just for the exclusivity deals or something, the amount of games they announced lately was weird.

[mcolt]

If $300M is actually a very cheap price for this acquisition, and there were other parties interested in it, I wonder, why companies aren’t jumping on it?

MS, Sony, Tencent, EA, T2, …