~Square-Enix Merger~
 

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Thoughts?

First off, this is in general board.

Second, April 1, 2003 hmm, let's see, how about this is all a big fat April Fools joke! :mad:

They can't trick me.

But, if it were true, that would be most definately cool. :D

A big fat april fools joke in advance? :unsure:

They're supposed to hold a press conference thing in about... 3 minutes according to my clock :p

And the gamecube board isn't working... I was gonna post it, but I didn't wanna post it here :p

I bet people are going to think that, after this merger, Nintendo's big announcement is them aquiring the next enix/square company as a second party ;)

That'd be a let down.

Nintendo's "Megaton" announcment should reflect something they've done on their own.

Aha! Nintendo definitely has something up their sleeves.

I can smell it.

No wait... damn you DH, you read my mind. :p

Exactly... funny thing, too, when I said "People" would say it, the name "Dyne" popped into my head... And I'm not kidding either :p

:sneaky:

Was my name summoned in your thoughts as well? :D

Yeah... I thought "Damn GameMaster is annoying"...

Aww, shucks, you're just saying that :)

Lol.

Well here's one thing people never saw but could be a reality:

DRAGON FORCE THE MOVIE!

btw, uh... thanks DH. ;)

It wasn't really supposed to be a compliment... maybe you knew that and that's why you put the wink there, but I'm just clearing that up ;)

Here's something I find a bit funny:

Back in the old days before Square announced games for NGC and all that jazz, Nintendo fans were like "WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE, SQUARE OR ENIX!? ENIX OR SQUARE WHICH IS BETTER!? OMG ENIX OR SQUARE I CAN'T CHOOSE!" and now they're one company :p

Maybe Sony (who already owns like... well now it's about 8% or something of this new company) will buy them out completely and steal the flame from Nintendo's "Mega-ton announcement"... or maybe Nintendo buying the new company is their mega-ton announcement... or maybe the company won't get bought and Nintendo's mega-ton announcement is something different? Who knoooows O.o oooOoOooO *spooky mysterious music plays* :unsure:

Couldn't help yourself could you? :hmm:

As soon as I was reading DH's post, I knew he was gonna mention something about what he just said :cool:

Well now that you mentioned it, it's a possiblilty. It's also possible for Xbox or Ps2 attaining the company as 2nd party. Could be interesting......

Yeah, I posted it here cause It just doesnt fit any other forum...

Anyway, in light of all of these amazing buy mergers and buy-outs, Nintendo better have something that really impresses me...

How much does EA own? If they own enough of Square I doubt they will sell. Sony's best bet is to pay for thier top sellers to be exclusive. (kinda like how they did with Rockstar)

As far as I know, EA doesnt onw anything in Square. EA publishes Square's games in the US, and Square publishes their games in Japan.

Anyway...I kinda hope DQ doesnt end up like FF games...DQ is all about battling, having fun and not caring about a huge storyline. While FF on the other hand, is all about character development, story, etc.

The good thing about this merger is that maybe the new games will have the best attributes from both DQ and FF.

Yeah, I think they can help out the FF series a lot if Enix and Square do projects together like this.

This caught me by surprise yesterday. It was so cool.

I thought the FF series is going online... and they are just making sequals to old FF games. Enix is good with MMORPGs or somthing?

So THAT'S why Dragon Warrior 1 sucked... :sneaky:

Dragon Warrior is the same as Dragon Quest, right? It's just called Dragon Quest in Japan, yeah? :o DW1 was the only one I've played, maybe the newer ones are better :p

Why you say that? I don't think they ever said that... they will still make nice new little offline FF games...

When did they say they would make offline ones? I mean, on the series line?

There is:
FF:CC
FFX-2
FF7-2

But I'm talkin bout FF12, 13, 14 etc. I think I remember them saying they are making the whole series after FFX MMORPGs.

Thats not true. For one, FF7-2 hasnt even been officially announced, its just a rumour..

Square did say that FF12 + would be online, but not in the way of MMORPGs. Ff12 will be online, but in a different way. It wont be like FF11, like say, FF12 might have online strategy guides, online tips, downloadable weapons, armor, skills, abilities, sidequests etc taht can be used for 1 player offline. However, the game's minigame could be online. But thats about as far as it would go. FF12 will probably be out in 2003 in Japan, and Square just released an expansion for FF11, so why would they keep making new MMORPGs when they can just expand from Ff11? Just like EverQuest. They wont need to make a new MMORPG until the next generation of consoles or 3 years from now.

Coo... where did you hear about FF12?

IGN had an article a long time ago (a bit after when FFX was revealed I think) and some Square guy said that games that come after FF11 will be different type of online. So my guess is that they will have downloadable extras, etc. Although there has been no official details.

Hm this from C-E:

Is that Shigeru Miyamoto??? If that's true, that's good news!!

Yeah... but who's Fukushima-san? :confused:

Oh god how I love Shiggy sometimes.... outbuying Sony.... Well done Shiggy! :D

Is that really Shigeru Miyamoto?

Isn't there more than one Miyamoto over in Japan? :hmm:

Meh... I highly doubt that some no-fame Miyamoto would buy 18% in this company. Think about it. 18%!

In fact, now that I think about it, Square must have planned this out... because now Sony will back off.... like they have! Excellent. And they'll more than likely focus on the cube more, seeing as they would never choose XBox as a medium.

Kaching!

But then who the hell is Fukushima again? *goes to search*

It is indeed not Nintendo's Shiggy they are talking about. Different guy.

Well, I found out that Fukushima is the new chairman of the company. Go fig. :p

And hey, guess what.

Goddamn. Just.... Goddamn.

Well, I hope that still means PS2 gets less priority. :p

omg...jumping to conclusions just a little too fast?

SQUENIX DEVEL0PES FOR G4MECUBE EXCLUSIVLY BECAUSE MIYAM0T0 0WNZ THEM AND S0NY BAX 0FF AND MICR0S0FT SUXXORZZ!!!!11!!1!!1

HOW TF could Misashi Miyamoto owning 18% of Sqaure-Enix have anything to do with the PS2 getting less priority?! dear god man, pull yourself together!

Whoa whoa... don't get so excited, Stu. SCEA only owns 8% now. Much less than what they had before, man. All that was said is that it would be nice to have a little more support than what is announced for Gamecube. Surely they can do better than some GBA games and Crystal Chronicle.

wtf? Sony owns 8% of SquareEnix, nintendo owns 0%. how could you possibly think that Ps2 would get less priority and they would focus more on GCN? not only that, but most of the Square and Enix fan base is with Sony, so do you think they would just all of a sudden focus more on nintendo?

*sigh*

I meant to say maybe all the good games won't be exclusive to PS2, and maybe we'll see something else on the Gamecube. Not ALL PS2 OMG PS2 ALL TEH TIME maybe a more broadened horizon than what we've seen. I say that because Sony has less of a grasp on the new company, allowing less tension and more Multi-platform time. GBA games don't count, because they aren't console.

You might want to brush up on your n00b relations.

the term 'n00b relations' means nothing to me

Just checking. ;)

Hmm too bad it ain't Shiggy. Oh well, Nintendo might have to do something with this... part of the megaton announcement?

*sits back and waits for perfect stu to claim his next victim.*





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you gotta be kidding me.......

i'm not gonna even bother commenting on that

sorry. too easy ;)

Oh yes. Hahaha. "Merge"!!!

http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi...MumxNkRW5peCB0

Oh god that is hilarious.

No seriously, that is funny.

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