The one thing Ubisoft are fantastic at is churning out AAA games annually which would be brilliant for a subscription service.
AC is still one of my favourite franchises but if anything it’s getting too big and probably needs a break.
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After completing Guardians of the Galaxy today (which was fantastic) it encouraged me to start Avengers, which so far is also brilliant.
I’m now truly on the CD/Eidos hype train.
On a side note I don’t understand why Avengers gets so much hate, so far I’m only about an hour in but the graphics, gameplay, cinematics and story are really good. I have been putting it off for ages based on everyone’s negativity towards it (perhaps it gets worse later on?).
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this is just my opinion but I feel like Microsoft would try to acquire square as a whole rather than just their western division but I could be wrong
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Avengers has a pretty solid main story and when it’s telling that through traditional linear levels it’s a pretty good experience - it’s when you start getting the levels that are being built for re-usability that it starts to fall apart a bit and you start getting the GaaS elements. Still, I enjoyed the main story overall and plan to jump back in for expansions in the future.
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Yeah, I also think they would try. Because it would make a huge splash in Japan. It remains to be seen what Square Enix wants there - as they also publish some other media stuff.
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Ah ok makes sense, like I say I’m only a hour in and I’m only interested in the SP main story. So far there hasn’t been any repetition but I wouldn’t be surprised as even GOTG did that to a degree.
Probably! Normally it’s not really cost effective to buy subsidiaries, especially with IP.
Personally I’m not interested in the Japanese side, I think Capcom/SEGA would be a better Japanese publisher IMO.
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Ehh I’d say Guardians has a normal amount of repetition for a linear story game, Avengers has maps that are specifically built for reuse (which are…kinda bland right away) and it starts to become noticable in places that you’re doing objectives that would fit a multiplayer setting on those maps - like capturing map points or defending a location for X number of minutes. It makes sense for a GaaS, replayability is important for them after all - it’s just noticably when the game is at it’s weakest. Still, I think there’s enough stuff in the game that is built for the story mode that it doesn’t affect just playing through the story too bad - I just personally had no interest in dabbling further into the game outside the story content.
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By Microsoft
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Japanese side could be great for Xbox though, they release a wide range of content and a lot of it doesn’t come to Xbox. Not even just stuff like Final fantasy which has been locked to Playstation through paid timed exclusives - but from their 3D remakes (Such as the Mana series) pixel remasters, 2.5D remakes (for example the newly announced for switch Live a Live) and titles like Forspoken, Bravely Default or Triangle stategy. They’ve also got their own mobile division and work with developers in Japan such as Platinum or Team Ninja. It’d make a good buy, I guess except for people who don’t like RPGs because for real it’s a LOT of RPGs.
I always say I don’t think any of the Japanese publishers will be selling, but I do hope this happens, and at the start of the ID@Xbox showcase today they held a little poll saying “Which genre do you want to see more support for on Xbox” and JRPG by far took the crown, so hopefully that pushes MS into looking into acquisitions for that more seriously too.
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Wow that bill is hot trash. I lean left on most things, but that things a dumpster fire, I can’t see a bunch of people supporting it though. Quite a large portion of political campaigns are funded by the organizations they would be hurting. Not to mention they’d be hurting the USAs ability to be competitive.
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I’m not going to say which publisher I think is next… for reasons.
I’ll say that I’d prefer the next to be Sega by Xbox.
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If you put a hundred people in a room, you’ll always find at least one person who disagrees. Or in this case, 8% of people wanting kinect back. But for real, this poll is actually pretty illuminating. Here’s hoping Toys for Bob is a good step for the 31% who enjoy platformers, but it looks like JPRG is the big nut they have to crack. Both Sega (for Atlus) or Square Enix (for…well, literally everything the Japanese side of the company makes) would be a strong move for this.
So you’re saying you don’t think it’s Sega
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If we are talking Japanese publishers I think Capcom is the best buy then Square then SEGA. Going a little further I would say
Capcom > Square Enix > SEGA > Konami’s gaming IPs > Bandi Namco’s gaming division > Koei Tecmo > SNK > Level 5
do you think they will buy someone before activision closes? because if word is to be believed there will be more big acquisitions this year
its not up to the company though, its up to the board who legally have to work in favour of the shareholders
Fix it for you 
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I’m getting a weird feeling that square is being bought out by Sony. Mattys recent video on the last low budget money grabs from square makes it seem like they wanna get what they can and not deal with any damage to the brand that’s obviously being made, kinda like bethesda with fallout 76.
Plus Sony has announced 10 live service games by 2026, square pumping those out like there’s no tomorrow lately, seems like the perfect storm.