Until recently, the publisher Square Enix, despite Japanese origin, was very globally positioned. The other day it was surprisingly announced that some studios of the western world will separate. The studios Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal and Square Enix Montreal will therefore go to the Embracer Group for $ 300 million.
By publishing the financial report for the past year, there have now been more insights into the future of the company. The sale of the studios serves various purposes. Read analysts from the report that Square Enix is trying to concentrate more on the Japanese video game market ** in the future. For this, the talents of the studios sold, with their IPS, were worse than others.
In addition, you want to try to buy new studios with the income of this deal and to establish yourself in other market areas. The report for this is mentioned Cloud and NFTS . However, the timing for this corporate change is extremely bad because the NFT market on the stock exchange has massive losses.
The new studios should concentrate on "cultivating robust IPs". If you now consider that Square Enix wants to focus more on his Japanese base, according to the analysts, two options are obvious: First, you want to expand and expand the already existing "robust IPs" such as Final Fantasy or secondly, create new IPs in a classic Square Enix style.
What would you prefer? More new ideas and variety from these studios or dear old-tried things you know where you are?
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