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NEWS: Sony Sells Its Entire Stake in Square Enix

And.... we're done. That's a wrap people... nothing left to see here.
Can't say I'm too sad if Square-Enix never makes another game. They haven't made anything I liked since FFX.

And yes, I know SONY selling their shares doesn't mean SE is going out of business, but I have this feeling their games are going to keep on sucking even more now.

And.... we're done. That's a wrap people... nothing left to see here.
Can't say I'm too sad if Square-Enix never makes another game. They haven't made anything I liked since FFX.

And yes, I know SONY selling their shares doesn't mean SE is going out of business, but I have this feeling their games are going to keep on sucking even more now.

Why do some people hate FFXII?

The PS4 has already had an incredibly strong launch, outpacing not only its closest rival, the Xbox One, but every other generation of Playstation before it. Sony sold 4.2 million units in 2013, as compared to 3 million for Xbox One — and that’s with a significant supply constriction. The PS4 also “nearly doubled” Xbox One sales in the US for January. That’s especially important, because the Xbox 360 outsold the PS3 in the US and Western Europe throughout the last generation. So the PS4 has been winning a war fought mostly in enemy territory, and today it regains some homefield advantage.

The Xbox brand has struggled in Japan since day one, and it doesn’t appear that Xbox One will do much to reverse that trend — as the Escapist points out, even the very basic idea of “the living room,” central to Xbox One’s design philosophy, doesn’t really hold up in Japan. Its biggest games are all geared towards the Western market, and Microsoft seems to have wisely decided to largely cede the island to its rival.

There's no reason for Square-Enix and Sony to stop working together just because Sony is no longer a S-E stockholder.

Sony might've sold the shares to free up some more cash, but that doesn't mean that part of the reason they chose to cash out of *Square-Enix* in particular is that they felt it wasn't particularly useful for them going forward... that Square-Enix was no longer a benefit to their stock portfolio.

So, yes, Sony is having troubles financially, but that doesn't negate Sony's apparent view of S-E's future value.

Also, S-E isn't going to stop making games for the PS platform: there are only so many platforms they can put their games on, and if they sulk and refuse to make games for the PS platform, it will do them some serious financial harm in terms of lost sales --> lost revenue. S-E isn't doing so well that they can afford to take that sort of financial hit.

enurtsol wrote:

There's no reason for Square-Enix and Sony to stop working together just because Sony is no longer a S-E stockholder.

Of course there is! They have so many better options!

There's Xbox One! The Xbox systems do great over in Japan........right?

Okay then, how about Wii U? Tons of people own that system right......oh. (granted, I own one and love it, but I don't represent the majority here)

Seriously guys, I highly doubt SE is so stupid as to not continue supporting the currently best-selling console worldwide as well as the one in Japan. MAYBE they could switch to doing 3DS exclusives only but I doubt it. All this doom-and-gloom talk based on wild predictions is once again the Internet being the Internet.

Sounds about right; Sony has been a financial mess for years and no amount of going on about their game business is going to change that. Their electronics is a complete mess; their tvs haven't made a penny in years while they had to sell their computer division. And then there are the headquarters they've gotten rid of. Selling of anything isn't a good sign

This doesn't give enough information to go into panic mode... From poking around Sony didn't even have much/any say in what Squenix did.




Squenix will continue to make games for whatever console/handheld that brings them money.

Sony/Columbia Pictures: Hasn't produced a box office hit in 7 years.