Rei said:
Jordahn said:
Rei said:
Star Scream said:
Rei said:
Star Scream said:
Total waste of money, IMHO. |
Care to explain why?
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Sure. Eidos' main franchises are nowhere near as big as they used to be, especially Tomb Raider and Championship Manager. Best developers left the company a long time ago. Eidos themselves have a mediocre reputation. I think that about wraps it up.
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I see. Tomb Raider and other Eidos franchises have indeed lost their popularity. However, they still have this western appeal Square games lack, and still sell more than any non KH-FF related SE game does in the West. Eidos are also masters of multiplatform development, and that's exactly where Square fails at.
To me it seems like a good deal. I dont think Eidos are anything big or important nowadays, but they have worthy IPs and for a company like Square (which shows very medicore results in the West this gen) it's a very smart move to buy them.
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So I guess this imples that SquareEnix just can't cut it anymore on their own (which they have already proven) so they have to rely on someone else. Makes sense.
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They never were to begin with. It's just that previously it was alright for them to do well just in Japan. Now, with western market growing and japanese shrinking that's not the case anymore.
@StarScream:
But what about Crystal Dynamics and IO interactive?
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One of the biggest names in Japanese console development is SquareEnix, and go figure that the Japanese market is shrinking because your biggest companies like SquareEnix have more to loose when they screw up. You just supported my case (the reality of the situation) when you see the facts in the context for what they are. If SquareEnix wants to appeal to a more Western market, fine nothing wrong with that. But when you've tried and failed, to look to other means such as buying Eidos. See.
