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(Rumour) Multiple potential buyers interested in buying Square Enix (Microsoft is one of them)

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Several potential buyers have shown interest in Square Enix, CTFN quoted two bankers familiar with the matter.

It's not clear if the focus is on the gaming sector or the company as a whole.

According to Bloomberg data, Square Enix's digital entertainment business accounted for 72% of total sales in the fiscal year ended at the end of March 2020.

"Growth of mobile games in the world may continue to slow," Bloomberg Intelligence said yesterday. It is said that it will be much stricter than in 2020, when sales surged due to restrictions on going out due to the new corona virus.

Original: Square Enix Is Said to Have Gotten M & A Interest, CTFN Says (excerpt)







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Who do you think will buy them?
 

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I remember in the beginning it was Squaresoft, then they had had some financial issues when Final Fantasy Spirits Within came out and it didn't do so well at the box office. Once Final Fantasy X-2 was released, the company name was changed to Square Enix.
 

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I remember in the beginning it was Squaresoft, then they had had some financial issues when Final Fantasy Spirits Within came out and it didn't do so well at the box office. Once Final Fantasy X-2 was released, the company name was changed to Square Enix.
Perhaps that's a sign.
 

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I bet Microsoft really wants then since they are not as popular in Japan.

However square Enix exclusives to Xbox is not the wave at all
 

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This is bad. Microsoft would ruin FF. It would become like Halo and not fun at all. Also, there would never be another FF game released on Playstation ever again. Ugh. This is bad.
 

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This is bad. Microsoft would ruin FF. It would become like Halo and not fun at all. Also, there would never be another FF game released on Playstation ever again. Ugh. This is bad.
I really doubt it, the reason Halo has been iffy is because Microsoft has been hands OFF. They don't mess with the game developers in that way anymore. They let them do their own thing.
 

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I really doubt it, the reason Halo has been iffy is because Microsoft has been hands OFF. They don't mess with the game developers in that way anymore. They let them do their own thing.
You do realize the coorporate Vice President of XBOX games runs 343 Studios? There's no such thing as hands off with Microsoft. LMAO that you believe that. That's the reason why Microsoft has always been number 2 when compared to Sony in video game sales. They will ruin FF if given the chance.
 

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This won’t end well. I’m a PlayStation woman. I don’t even own an Xbox. I can only imagine how they’ll ruin the final fantasy franchise.
 

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