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Sony Gets Stake in Square
by Maarten Goldstein, Oct 09, 2001 11:41am PDTSony has announced it will buy about 19% of Square shares, injecting some $124 million in the game developer and becoming the 2nd largest share-holder of the company.. Sony previously had no stake in Square. Square can still create games for other consoles, although from this quote that doesn't really seem to be likely at this point
"We are not necessarily obligated to Sony, because of this deal. But we can gauge the situation in the future and offer software to the best selling hardware maker, and at this time there is no doubt that Sony is the best,'' said Hisashi Suzuki, Square's president.update Jack - This, by the way, is an absolutely huge deal. Square has made the most successful RPG's to date, and this almost certainly binds them to Sony for the forseeable future. There were rumors that Nintendo and Microsoft were in talks with with Square in order to get their games ported over. That seems to be a lost cause now though, and puts Microsoft and Nintendo at a huge disadvantage.
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"We are not necessarily obligated to Sony..." did Jack totally not understand when he posted, "...this almost certainly binds them to Sony ..." ????
LOL.
That's like reading a bad logic puzzle....
"...we are not bound to sony-they are bound to sony..." ack! which is it!
Someone give me a solid business link on who owns Square, and their percentage.
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NOW ONLY ON THE PLAYSTATION 2 SUPER COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT NUKE LAUNCHER.
That said, I was extremely impressed with Vagrant Story. I played through that game twice, and then just kept on playing. I've also heard good things about Chrono Cross, although I haven't played it. I hope there is a Vagrant Story sequel for the PS2, and I don't wish for sequels that often.
-Ted
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Once again, screw you Sony!
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oh well im gonna buy a ps2 for FF 10 anyway...
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It's too bad that Sony makes shitty quality hardware, or else this wouldn't be bad.
I will admit though that 8 had some horrible gameplay issues...although its nice to get chores done while waiting for the summon to finish...hehehe
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Fuck SONY, now I am really pissed off.
I want FFXI on XBOX and GAMECUBE
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/me looks for all the fanboys to pop out of the woodwork
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Maybe i can get Final Fantasy 2 now?
no final fantasy = failure in asia.
failure in asia = failure.
unless you're microsoft, in which case you can get fat on american pc fanboy's money!! :)
still dunno about europe, but i'm betting it's more of a xbox slide. if i'm not mistaken, mini home computer consoles = cool in europe.
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nintendo also owns a portion of square
hehe.
Now i'm obligated to buy a ps2 to play square games.
Yippeee!!!
Die, Square, die.
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