Rumor: Square Enix and Microsoft teaming up again for E3

[lostintheodyssey]

huaxiong90 said:

Cactus said:

lostintheodyssey said:

huaxiong90 said:
Are people seriously ignoring the fact that Breath of Fire = Capcom?

You are showing your young age.  Breath of Fire was created by capcom but back in the day they had a deal with squaresoft that made square the publisher of the game in north america for the super nintendo version. This situation is similar to the goldeneye situation between nintendo, rare, and microsoft.

Considering Capcom has published remakes of the game in the past, I don't believe that argument holds any ground whatsoever. This news is fake, and the Breath of Fire part confirms it.

Thank you. I was going to say that.

Capcom has never published a console version of the original breath of fire in North America they just did the handheld version.  Maybe square has the rights to the console version in America.  It all depends on how the contract was drawn up all those years ago.  Microsoft owns the viva pinata, and blue dragon franchises but they were published by someone else when they went to the ds.  When the sequel to viva pinata went back to the console it was published by microsoft again. 

To get out of a potential problem with microsoft over ninja gaiden 2 tecmo created a new engine and changed the name to ninja gaiden sigma 2 in order for it to be considered a new game.  Even though tecmo owned the ip and should be able to do what they wanted with it they had to do some manipulating since microsoft published the 360 version.  Like I said before it all depends on how the contracts are drawn up and what deals and promises were made.