S-E would never sell for market value, unless they are morons.. money is to be made at S-E.

Easy...1.2 billion is still a ton of money, money that Sony can't reasonably spend right now, since it's still going to be losing money on the PS3 through this year.  And the purchase wouldn't be beneficial if they could afford it anyway...SE's value would go down like crazy if Sony bought it, because SE's profit comes from its many multiplatform games.

Buyouts don't work that way. The price usually skyrockets upon news of a buyout, so the buyer winds up paying well above the current price.  Blowing 25% of your cash position is crazy anyways.

And it still doesn't change the fact a lot of the value of SE is based on it being multi platform developer. Take that away and the company is worth far less. So they would wind up buying a company that would wipeout a lot of their cash, and then destroy the value of it by making it a single platform developer. Makes about as much sense as a hole in the head.

 Oh brother.  I try to move things on, but he keeps asking for it. 

Fine, Blue3, we're all sheep.  Now just leave us alone and gaze at your beautiful $600 machine, and us sheep will go back to having lives and having fun with our 10 year old box.

 What you mean their value would go down, they would be part of Sony how can you value them seperatly ?

 Any ds game to PSP, any Wii game to PS2 and PSP maybe a PSN download or PS3 and no 360 games.  As expensive as it would be, would it not be a massive help to PSP and PS3 sales ?

rofl^...i love it..some ppl with thier most precious possession being a video game machine..

No, you did the number's right, but FishyJoe's were wrong. http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=413&Itemid=32

SE has only had more success since then, and that's at 3.2 Billion. Being conservative, they are at least up to 3.5 billion, so technically $1.33 billion. Sony only made throughout it's entirity of it's divisions 2.4 billion last quarter, and all that was stripped away by PS3 losses.

So, here is what I see being the issue: The PS3 is still causing the coporation at least 2 billion in losses per quarter. Eating into the corporate reserves. They would compound their quarterly loss very signifficantly to buy Square Enix, if it is even POSSIBLE to buy it right now, but I say it's not, because if they did they would have to cancel production of all current DS, Wii, and 360 games by SE, which have all had millions of dollars poored into them. What happens if you cancel the long awaited DQIX for the Japanese and their DS? You have just lost millions of loyal customers forever, not to mention the development cost of the game itself. Same with Dragon Quest Swords, FF:CC, Last Remnant (Development costs on this one are through the roof). I mean the amount of issues this would create; to take a corporate entity designed to develop for multiple consoles and try and convert it to your 2 would cost billions more than just the cost of purchasing, which is a lot to stomach in the first place.

That's my view on it anyway.

 You assume the same SE that exists now would be working under Sony if Sony bought SE.

If Sony bought SE, SE would no longer make as much profit off multiplatform games, and therefore would not be able to produce as many games as it does now.  "How can I value them separately?"  Alright, so say SE's one with Sony...then they get to share in the deficit, as Sony just bought SE, and cannot afford to churn out all the games SE wants to.  It's a lose-lose for both companies, SE can't make as much profit anymore, and Sony can't help because they just friggin' bought SE. 

End of argument.

 Cell phones PSP PS3 PS2 is single platform ?