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twintail said:
Buy a failing studio with zero IP to their name? |
Don't even really need to acquire them, Xbox is badly in need of JP exclusives so they could simply contract them out to make an original JRPG IP as a 2nd party exclusive for Xbox, giving them the cash infusion they need to survive. tri-Ace makes good games though, and in the past they made the bestselling JRPG Xbox exclusive/timed exclusive (Star Ocean The Last Hope which sold 790k worldwide units on Xbox 360, and was also the bestselling Xbox 360 game in Japan itself, beating out Lost Odyssey even though Lost Odyssey was lifetime exclusive and The Last Hope was only 1 year timed), so I would certainly be happy with Xbox acquiring them.
According to reliable sources, Xbox is currently looking to acquire both JP publishers and independent JP studios, what better acquisition for them than a studio that is desperate enough to sell to a western company due to being on the doorstep of bankruptcy? The fact that they are desperate and own no IP would make them quite cheap too, Xbox could acquire them for peanuts, unlike a more successful independent JP studio such as Platinum or Level-5 or CC2 which would cost them more money. Low risk acquisition for potentially high reward.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 05 October 2022
