I don't understand this. How can SE do anything more than give Eidos some money to play with? The Tomb Raider IP and a few others might be worthwhile to own to break into the West more, but right now Eidos is unprofitable in the West. And with SE being in a different continent with no real expertise outside of RPGs, they don't have anything they can easily consolidate with Eidos to cut costs.
Does Eidos have better established distribution channels in the West? Are they planning to sack most of the Eidos development staff and outsource their IP?
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
