Rumors about the possible are becoming more and more pressing Square Enix ready for sale The company as a whole, plus who sees it Sony is among the main candidates to acquire it Publisher, but is this process really possible? And what could be the consequences of an acquisition of this magnitude? The problem, which started as wild speculation and rumor, is becoming more and more likely as time goes on, even if Sony isn’t just as a potential buyer. From this point of view, a balanced sale to Western teams to Square Enix would also make sense, with Eidos Montreal, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix Montreal passing on to Embracer Group for 300 million, a practically minuscule number if you consider the businesses that have emerged in this period. of massive mergers and acquisitions among gaming companies.
The idea is that this somewhat hasty sale could also be dictated by a desire to separate out items that are somewhat awkward and difficult to manage, in order to facilitate mass acquisition for the Japanese division alone, which will for the time being primarily in the targets from Sony and Tencent, according to According to reports from many analysts and insiders, not least David Gibson who has addressed the matter in the past few hours talks about the so-called “phase one” in the process of streamlining and preparing for the acquisition by Square Enix. To tell the truth, we are talking about selling large shares in the company, but it is clear that when these packages become huge we can talk about selling and buying in large quantities, or almost. This desire to rely on a superior market entity was also confirmed by Stéphane Dastos, co-founder of Eidos Montreal.
Based on what has been reported in recent days in commenting on the exciting sale of Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal to Embracer Group, D’Astous reports that Square Enix was not able to manage the teams involved in the best possible way, but it did. He also explained how there were already rumors within the company about the Japanese management’s willingness to sell the Japanese brand to Sony, most likely.
It would be an absolutely significant acquisition for the PlayStation home, certainly closer to its history and traditions, but would that really make sense? Square Enix, in fact, has practically Cut almost all bridges with XboxSkip the Microsoft console regarding several important releases. Certainly there are economic agreements and well known are the exclusive relationships that some cross-platform games have previously had with PlayStation, as we saw with Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Final Fantasy 16, but specifically in light of this trend, one has to consider that the “acquisition of Wholesale on the company can be redundant, as well as not very suitable for Sony, which still has to incur significant expenses in running a large company like Square Enix.
On the other hand, if the publisher’s most important titles continue to appear exclusively on their platform, What does acquisition mean? in a block? We have to assess how much money these agreements from time to time require from Sony, but it is doubtful that these are greater than the total purchase of Square Enix, with all the expenses that may ensue even then. In the end, whoever loses will be above all Nintendo Switch and its users, is the only other platform that the publisher seems to want to focus on, as well as a potential source of significant income, given the home penetration. From this point of view, it seems that selling to Sony is not very suitable for Square Enix, which may then prefer a third party such as Tencent, which will be left in its own hands as to the platforms on which its games will be launched.
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