Square Enix not recieved any offers, nor looking to be sold

With any successful company with a decent market will have people approaching to buy you out. This is regular everyday business and not news unless it’s final and on paper. lol

I'll offer them a dollar and a packet of crisps. There you go Square there's your offer

TBH I found it kind of weird how much the internet has been celebrating the Zenimax acquisition by MS.

Sony & Nintendo have their exclusives & first party studios but all the long standing IPs are franchises that were built from the ground up.

Uncharted, TLOU, Infamous, God of War, R&C, etc. - Spider-Man might be an exception but I argue that since it is a fresh series of games that Sony Corp. already had somewhat ownership on the IP in, it’s a fair play.

When you get to Xbox, games like Halo, Fable, Gears of War... it’s understandable that these games would remain exclusive on Xbox. I love Fable, it’s my favorite RPG, & I don’t (currently) own an Xbox but I’m not upset about it - it’s an Xbox IP, thru & thru.

But the Zenimax studios, & even some of the other recently purchase studios - MS bought them specifically for the IP, no doubt about it. They’re buying studios to restrict IP that has otherwise been long-standing, multi-platform franchises... idk, just kind of rubs me the wrong way. It’s like buying exclusivity from a 3rd party company (which Sony does do), but taking it a good 5 extra steps to ensure those games never end up at the competition (Microsoft probably has PTSD from all the exclusivity deals they made during the 360 era that never held thru - I have so many games with the “Only on Xbox” label that in retrospect, is no longer true).

And it’s overall fine that it happened - ironically, I’m more interested in some of the new IPs that are coming out of these Xbox studios than that the next Elder Scrolls or Doom game.

But by & large, I don’t think it’s really something people should be celebrating or encouraging MS or Sony to do more of. It’s good if they continue to support & / or buy independent studios to produce fresh IP for each respective brand. But this race for who can acquire more valuable IP is nothing but a bad thing for the gaming industry.

Thank god. The last thing I want is their entire catalog going exclusive to one console.

Especially their JRPGs have a long tradition on Nintendo and Playstation consoles. Having all those go to just one plattform (probably Playstation or Xbox) would have sucked.

Thank god.

Keep SQ third party so we all can enjoy there games.

This is why you should never trust bloomberg especially for gaming news.

I hope they remain independent. Exclusives are anti-consumer. The more independent studios we have, the better.

With that said, if Square was to become available for purchase, I would much prefer Sony pick them up over Microsoft. The Bethesda acquisition was a huge blow to any gamer not on Xbox or PC; the last thing any of us should want is them acquiring another huge studio like Square.

As much as people want to see Playstation Doing something in response to Xbox acquiring Bethesda etc, I still feel like the more the people can enjoy the games they want to play on the platform they want to play on, the better.

I can't wait until games are coming out more frequently I'm real tired of these acquisition rumors that hold no weight. Bethesda as a whole was bleeding out they weren't doing so hot as a publisher but that doesn't give credence that every single publishe

Jeez Bloomberg, more bullshit from the same “sources” that have brought us countless articles about the yet-to-be-revealed Switch Pro? LOL

I would actually prefer Square Enix be acquired by Sony.

Thought the rumor was that MS was eyeing SEGA?

I would believe companies looking to buy CD project red because of how vulnerable they are right now thanks to cyberpunk but not squareexix which just came off a good year with the success of FFVI remake and now having success with outriders

I don’t understand this. Even with companies like Microsoft or Tencent that have the cash flow to buy SE, why would SE even want to sell?

Even though game like Avengers flopped recently, they are still swimming in money. FFXIV alone is enough to get a good cash flow. I don’t understand why they would want to sell when they can have all that money while still being independent. The only thing I can see is they would want to sell their smaller division/studio like they did with IO Interactive.

Very thankful this isn't' happening, and don't think it had a shot really.

What’s with Bloomberg and seemingly inaccurate reporting?

Why does it matter if the report is based on “any announcement by Square Enix?” That has no bearing on the truth of the report. Not receiving a legal offer isn’t the same thing as not receiving interest. Would their consideration change if they were given a sufficient offer? If the price is right, of course it would.

I don't think Microsoft is gonna stop acquiring big publishers. So Sony might consider trying to secure some ips if they don't want to be outpowered big microsoft

No fucking way.

Square is raking in money hand over fist with FFXIV subs, they fucking HAVE to be.

Thought that Microsoft is buying SquareEnix is frightening on so many levels. Everyone who thinks logically knows that real goal behind such aquisition is total monopoly of the market. Microsoft knows that they can't compete in different way than buying studios till they have majority dominance on the market. Such future is terrifying because their long term goal is turning whole industry into one big subscription based service with digital games only. Anyone with common sense can imagine how bad such future would be. The worst part is that Microsoft has obsession about entering and then dominating Japanese market which will never happen. Buying SquareEnix (but also Sega and other Japanese companies) would be such a waste because soon they will end like Rare because Japanese will not accept Microsoft as console leader. It's pitiful that Microsoft can only act by brute force (money) and it makes me sick when I think about game distribution model that they want so establish. Not to mention that trying to buy studios and people like Kojima Productions who are strongly connected to Sony brand in order to undermine their opponents is rather disgusting. I never heard about Sony or Nintendo trying to buy eachother studios or Microsoft brand studios. But I guess for Microsoft the ends justify the means (everyone who knows history of MS knows that is the truth).

SquareEnix, Sega and other third party developers should stay independent but if they had to be bought it would be better if they be part of Sony. At least they would have freedom and in this moment Sony don't have a plans to change how game industry works.

Too bad for Sony, I wish they would have acquired something to counter the Bethesda acquisition. But I guess it is for the best like this.

They don’t have to. Bethesda can’t put out games at the level of Sony’s own studios.

Idk man, it is more about the franchises: doom, fallout, elder scrolls

It would have been cool to have Tomb Raider and FF on the team blue, imagine a cross-over between Uncharted and TR

If Microsoft bought Sony this sub would be filled with people saying they don't care, Sony doesn't make good games anyway.

Pump and dump scheme: SE pays Bloomberg to release an article saying that it was "receiving " offers from major companies, execs ride the stock bump, sell, then release a presser saying that the "rumors" were fake all along.

That isn't how pump and dump works in ANY way. No company wants a pump and dump scheme run on their stock ever. It's bad optics and nets them no investment, or worse will lose them investments via the "dump" part.

Pump and dumps are run by investment firms and hedge funds to manipulate the market in their favor.

Microsoft: How many billions will it take?

It is SE decision. MS can still maybe do a hostile takeover but that will just make it look really bad SE people won't like and you will see a lengthy court battle and people departing 😉

Japanese companies are protected from hostile takeovers by foreign companies.

Japan government would fuck Microsoft hard, no way they would let a hostile foreign takeover in.

That could change in an instant if the right offer was put on the table. They always say crap like this, but I am sure they would consider a fair offer.

They have absolutely gotten offers. They just did this because of the stock thing.

Doesnt mean they will actually sell or are even interested in selling. But you can bet your ass that Microsoft,Tencent,etc have come knocking on their door a few times.

Without third party devs digital foundry will go under :-/

I hope Sony manages to buy Square one day.