Square Enix considering further acquisitions

didnt they take history class or economics?

roman empire?etc.
enron?etc.

whenever anything in life gets too big or consumes to much, 'WHATEVER ONE BELIEVES' has a way of catching up and breaking up or destroying or etc......

how many bad assets do you really want to buy? if a company is selling it is probably because they are having problems.
maybe they think they can save all the great IP's owned by the companies squaresoft has purchased over the years.

So, you think the lesson from the Enron disaster is that anything that is big must then fall apart and die?

The Roman Empire and Enron? WTF.

Do you even know what business Enron was in?

Eidos games:

* 25 To Life (2006)
* Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (2008)
* Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home (2003)
o Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the Neighborhood (2004)
* Battlestations: Midway (2007)
* Championship Manager 5 (2005)
* Chili Con Carnage (2007)
* Chuck Rock (1991)
* Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines (1998)
o Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty
o Commandos 2: Men of Courage (2001)
o Commandos 3: Destination Berlin (2003)
o Commandos: Strike Force (2006)
* Conflict: Denied Ops
* Cutthroats: Terror on the High Seas
* Daikatana
* Deathtrap Dungeon
* Deus Ex (2000)
o Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003)
* Doctor Who: Top Trumps
* Fear Effect
o Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
* Fighting Force
o Fighting Force 2
* Gangsters
o Gangsters 2
* Geon: Emotions
* Hitman: Codename 47 (2000)
o Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (2002)
o Hitman: Contracts (2004)
o Hitman: Blood Money (2006)
o Hitman 5 (TBA)
* Imperial Glory
* Infernal
* Joint Strike Fighter
* Just Cause (video game)
* Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (2007)
o Kane & Lynch 2
* Legacy of Kain
o Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
o Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
o Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain
o Legacy of Kain: Defiance
* Legaia 2: Duel Saga
* Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
* Mad Maestro
* Mini Ninjas Official Site
* Mister Mosquito
* Monster Lab (2008)
* Ninja: Shadow of Darkness
* Official Formula 1 Racing
* Orion Burger
* Pocket Pool
* Praetorians
* Project Eden
* Project Snowblind
* Revenant
* Reservoir Dogs
* Rogue Trooper
* Shellshock
* Shellshock: Nam '67
* Soul Bubbles (2008)
* Spider: The Video Game
* Startopia
* Thief
o Thief: The Dark Project
o Thief II: The Metal Age
o Thief: Deadly Shadows
* Timesplitters
o Timesplitters 2
* Tomb Raider (1996)
o Tomb Raider II
o Tomb Raider III
o Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
o Tomb Raider Chronicles
o Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
o Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend
o Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary
o Tomb Raider: Underworld
* Top Trumps Adventures
* Top Trumps Adventures: Dogs and Dinosaurs
* Top Trumps Adventures: Horror and Predators
* Touch the Dead
* Trade Empires
* The Unholy War
* Urban Chaos
o Urban Chaos: Riot Response
* Virtual Resort: Spring Break
* Warzone 2100
* Way of the Samurai

Now which games would you personally like to see rendered in glorious HD hmmmmmmm? For me it's Fear Effect and Deus Ex.

zuburi- that was funny k, hopefully you took my comment as a joke too, as i know the directors of square enix are probably very bright people who have their jobs for a reason, hopefully. but i did mean what I said about the subject MaTeRiAlS..'

zerokku- i didnt know that side of it and that sounds good in theory yes, but IMO:
kinda hard to change Japanese gaming habits or anybodies for that matter.. MS attempted that in japan and soon learned to take hold and release many JRPG type games and to also make some of the more overall game titles multi platform. ( tekken 6, DMC4, etc.)

IMO buying edios was a bad decision. they were selling the company for a reason. i dont know if many people are waiting for the next kane and lynch or tomb raider game, but that is just me.
I personally dont see any good western developers or mainly publishers up for sale, but rather struggling ones that are going out of business.
sometimes you have to stick to what you do best and make sure you do what your loyal fans enjoy best... square has had some patchy work lately and mixed reviews on some of their recent games, but i still enjoyed most of their recent games.
but thats just my lil opinion: 1 out of 6,000,000,000+

If they really wanted to be one with the west they'd localize games during development, and release alongside Japan. Not leaving the west as an afterthought.

I don't especially see japanese games being any less innovative than western ones. They have their hundreds of anime-inspired JRPGs. We have our hundreds of brown WW2/Middle East shooters.

Some of the more innovative games of recent years have come out of japan. (Katamari, Killer7, etc... ). Infact nintendo seems to have been too inovative for their own good ;-)

the two markets have become almost totally detached though.. so i guess it makes sense for them to try to broaden appeal.
Really though, the problem is SqEnix themselves, rather than japanese developers in general. they have their formula and they stick to it.

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WORLD DOMINATION
yes...

so will the final fantasy guys man-up up and cut down on having gay sex on deviantart?
and lawl at the first comment. microsoft must have missed your memo dude.

hopefully the next next final fantasy will have a plot like magic is useless because the mana(lifesteam?) of earth is pissed off. so they'll have to resort to using an guns. Then the new non-latent homosexual male lead can be running through through the forest of goblins shooting everything in sight. when we're forced to talk to a npc to find out that the orange goblin who lives in a van down by the river, has the key to open the door we need to get through, we'llhave the choice to pursue the goblin OR we can choke the npc, shoot him, stab him with a 10 foot sword....then steal his gil. then we can use his corpse loaded with explosives to blast the door apart.