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Forums - Gaming - Wouldn't it be great if Square and Nintendo teamed up again?

selnor on 01 April 2008

Who cares. Almost everyone who made FF great have left. Even the music. You remeber the great music you've loved from FF games, that man Nobuo Uematsu. Acclaimed as the greatest video game music composer now works at Mistwalker. Along with Character designer of many FF games Takehiko Inoue.



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Game_boy on 01 April 2008
Onimusha12 said:
Rare wasn't bought off by Microsoft... They were sold off by Nintendo.

 

Actually, you're wrong. Nintendo had a 49% share in Rare while the founders had a 51% share. Microsoft bought the 51%, and Nintendo was practically forced to sell the 49% as Microsoft would of course have the majority vote. Then again, all the best staff at Rare left for other companies, so it's not really Rare anymore apart from the IP.



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Borkachev on 01 April 2008

Also, Square owes a great deal to Sony for bailing them out after The Spirit Within disaster... I suspect that's why they are still supporting Sony even though it has clearly lost market leadership.

Sony didn't bail them out... they bought a percentage of the company because they saw an opportunity to make a profit from the investment. Square, meanwhile, has kept its main series on Sony's consoles because it made good business sense -- because the PS2 was so dominant last gen, and most likely because they have a contract this gen. There's no such thing as loyalty among multinational corporations.

I don't know why people are talking about Square supporting Nintendo in a hypothetical way, anyhow. At this point Square is pretty much a completely neutral third party giving support to every platform on the market. The only further step they could take would be to share IPs, I guess, but I'm not sure what the advantage would be. They're both pretty competent developers who can manage their own franchises.