300 Million....

If they sold some back games on the Switch, where I doubt many of them are (Does Switch have any Deus or Tomb Raider games?) digitally...that could be about 40 a pop, maybe more without marketing. They'd just need to sell 750 K full priced digital 60 dollar games on the Switch E-shop to make that back. 

Not sure how much it would cost to port them over, but if you want to earn 300 M on them, that isn't a terrible direction. 

I have no doubt they'll still make quality games. Square isn't losing their creative talent. It's what they could be adding to those quality games to get even more revenue out of them that concerns me. With Square's CEO saying the dumbest sh*t lately when it comes to how he views gaming in general should be enjoyed, makes me worried about how far they'll try to push it. 

At least now they're with an owner that might actually put some of their games on Switch.

I'm no fan of the consolidation of the world's devs under a handful of megacorps, but frankly I'd rather them be with the Embracer Group than Square Enix, or under other potential buyers like Tencent, and I'm glad Microsoft or Sony didn't get them.

These studios are better off with Embracer Group than SE. At least a new Dues Ex and Tomb Raider game will likely be made. Square was terrible with managing their western division and their Japanese division isn't looking too hot either, especially with their future focus on Blockchain and other forms of monetization.

Square's Switch stuff has all been from their Japan studios which they still have.

None of their Western stuff has come to Switch despite many of them being perfectly viable to port, so Embracer can't do any worse than Square.

Embracer seems to support the Switch fairly well; since they purchased Saber Interactive in February of 2020 the company has undertaken multiple Switch projects such as World War Z, the Crysis Remaster trilogy, Snowrunner, plus Kingdom Come Deliverance on the way.

They've also brought many of their THQ Nordic games to Switch like Darksiders 1-3, Destroy All Humans, next month Wreckfest, etc.

This deal certainly puts all others going around to shame. 3 studios and all those tried and tested IPs for only £300 mil. Hope Embracer give the studios some great freedom to make some great games.

Yeah looking at their catalog, few have supported the Switch as well as them. It's quite refreshing. They own Saber too so they even have their very own expert porting house.

Respectively the IP's aren't that much a big deal apart from Tomb Raider. And even then, that's not that much of a money spinner nowadays all considering its name and legacy. The trilogy sold 38M combined with a large chunk of that front loaded. Neither CD or Eidos and their games haven't made that much money in the last several years. In fact, they lost a bunch on Marvels games. CD has only really worked on TR (apart from LoK) until then and the series kinda died off when they were sold to SE. Got revived with the re imaging only to flounder again. Stuff like Legacy of Kain and Deus Ex aren't really relevant today - recent Deus Ex games selling 12M copies combined.

Activision Blizzard and Bungie's games on the other hand are very successful businesses, bring in revenue and help MS/Sony with bolstering their services/ecosystems.

There's must've been a bidding war and somehow Embracer managed to get them for 300M - which is what TR is probably worth. Maybe if MS wasn't tied in with ABK deal, they would have been in there with a considerably higher bid.

Which is weird, given that MS+Acti/Blizz has still a smaller market share than Sony, so every acquisition Sony makes is actually more important for establishing a monopoly than what MS does.

To be fair: We already knew for years that SE is run by morons.