Fumanchu on 15 February 2009
I actually kind of think the Eidos acquisition was a good long-term investment. It sets up a global infrastructure with commercially successful, world-renowned IP’s in western markets, which is crucial with dwindling console sales in Japan.
A vast majority of the Eidos catalogue is Action games. With the growing emergence of real-time battle systems in Square’s RPGs, the line is somewhat blurred now in what separates and defines the two genres. I think they believe they can compliment each other by incorporating the best of both worlds. There’s no real common ground with FPS games offered by Free Radical, so I don't really see that being a better move.
