I'm all for microsoft buying square-enix for one, and one reason only.

Square-Enix + Microsoft = Squaresoft!

Aside from that, I highly doubt microsoft would be interested in buying square-enix, Its more likely they'll chip into Vivendi's or EA's assets before going after japanese gaming companies.

I can see them buying Bioware, or any number of north american companies before they buy square-enix.

SE does have a huge fanbase, I just think the majority of them are waiting for FFXIII.  o_o

contract with them....quite possible.

buying them? lol...yeah right like they could afford that...or could they? would cost a shit ton + a few billion

oh and since sony has whatever % stock in SE they would either have to keep the games multiplat or give sony a certain % of the income from the games they make together /shrug

Genious.

SE games on 360 have sold an astounding, under 1 million units.

On the other platforms, millions.

It'd have to be a hell of a lot of money.

Come on, you can't be serious. If MS can offer $43 billion for Yahoo, a company like S-E is a drop in the pond. But it's still not a good investment.

hell yea....that is their plan....make square enix lose $ so it will be easier for them(m$) to buy SE....................lol jk


but yea m$ will soon buy SE

not to get off topic but wow how times have changed. square basically made every single one of their games exclusively for ps2, and now we look today how they are making all their games exclusive to not-ps3.

on topic, i doubt microsoft will buy square. square is not only a japanese company but it is also too large for MS to buy maybe.

i think its a possiblity, just depends on how much this new ff universe thing ends up costing square-enix. @mrstickball, about rare they werent a 3rd party dev. they were a 2nd party dev , when nintendo owned them and when m$ bought them they became a 2nd party dev for them. also i disagree with your statement about rare not being a good venture for them, all of rare's titles for the 360 have sold over 1 million+ and thats good i think because 2 of them were new ip's and 1 was a prequel(perfect dark zero).

are you deluded? anyone in the right mind knows that only FF,DQ,SO,KH sell over the 1 million mark. SE games on the 360 (Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Project Sylpheed) wouldn't had sold 1 million in either the ps3 or the Wii, get your facts right troll. :) JRPGS are niche.