you have to read the other threads once in a while. LOL - otherwise, you’ll be missing stuff
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Been busy with work for a while. What did I miss?
I think you might be misunderstanding.
Most people that want them to buy Square West would be perfectly happy if they bought the whole thing. We just dont find it realistic that Square would let go of their Japan baby.
Additionally the near term releases of Square Japan are locked up in Sony contracts and MS has shown that they wont break existing contracts so if you compare Square Japan and Sega games that would come to Xbox and Gamepass in the immediate years after a hypothetical acquisition, there are more benefits to the Sega acquisition. Beyond that, as a former platform holder, Sega has a very rich back catalog that could easily be added to gamepass.
It isnt that we hate Square Enix.
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Don’t forget the myriad of leadership issues Square has consistently shown over the years.
Microsoft is looking for teams that can run themselves, just need a little extra help in the resources department.
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Exactly, while some of their output is getting better, they can’t maintain any consistency at all, I don’t know how Babylon’s Fall got under shit and that’s a project made by Platinumgames, Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal got the worst with Avengers.
Anyone have any idea whether Jez mentioned Mainframe, or someone was just guessing what Jez said?
If Jez mentioned Mainframe studios, could someone share the timestamped video please.
I suspect most of the people who want MS to buy Square West don’t care and don’t understand the importance of FF and Dragon Quest IP. Square Enix Japan is essentially asian bethesda. We have a lot of folks on Xbox who don’t care about Japanese games at all, so for them it is not important and they are content with only western games.
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I do, just making sure all those games come to xbox would be huge. Bringing them under the Xbox umbrella would be monumental
exactly what i observed from reading their posts. I am an okd lady, it was final fantasy that had me get my first console, my first xbox console was a ff13 360 edition. Square enix is trash blah blah, buy only western part, phil and gang would not agree with you. I bet his girls played some final fantasy. Really yiu have every fps coop xcoming to xbox, you get square’s western gamwes already xbox would want all of square enix, that be like xbox buying eveything of zenimax accept bethesda game studios. For me bethesad iis elder scrools and starfield wow. In japan square enix is like disney.
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Buying WB Games and getting them DC gaming rights is a must for Xbox.
Maybe it the DC Fanboy in me but if Playstation keep getting more and more Marvel gaming exclusive stuff than Xbox needs DC.
Imagine Xbox DC vs Playstation Marvel.
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FF and DQ have no real fanbase on xbox. Its all on PS
And that’s why they would be a good acquisition.
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And buying them would force that fanbase to get an xbox.
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That… sounds like a losing battle
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There are certainly more on Playstation, but to say there is not a fanbase that plays these games on Xbox is definitely way off. Every time one of the final fantasy games joined gamepass it jumps into the top 5 most played. When FF12 Zodiac edition joined gamepass all of twitter was lighting up with people playing it.
FF13 and FF15 both sold well on Xbox.
Dragon Quest was a big hit for gamepass too.
So while there is not the massive audience Playstation has, there are still millions of fans on box that love these titles.
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I doubt it. MS investment during the 360 era was meant to do what you describe, it failed.
The JPN side of Square have no real relationship with Xbox
MS dipped their toes into like 2 JRPG games and then didnt do anything more. A continued commitment would work.
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Final Fantasy is the biggest JRPG franchise on earth, it can’t be compared to what was done in the 360 era.
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Square wouldnt accept any attempted takeover by MS of the whole company