With SE dumping IP's

Do you think SE gets bought by Sony? I hope not since Sony is more on the exclusive side and try not to multiplatform IP's sometimes.

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Originally Posted by Velvet_Lunarfang

Do you think SE gets bought by Sony? I hope not since Sony is more on the exclusive side and try not to multiplatform IP's sometimes.

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Well SE has mostly been on Playstation. So it wouldnt be anything new.
But Id think they wouldnt be EXCLUSIVELY playstation, at the very least the PC masterrace will always get everything (with some exceptions...but who knows)

They wont be getting bought by Mircosoft thats for sure. Lol

SE is only being sustained by a few products now.
the rest are not making the company enough money to warrant holding the rights too.

I say you should expect them to sell off more things and maybe suspect them undergoing another possible rebranding.

If Sony did buy, I can see Playstation being the console exclusive but not the sole platform. I don't think they'd want to abandon the potential profits from the PC audience on the higher profile titles.

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Originally Posted by znushu

SE is only being sustained by a few products now.
the rest are not making the company enough money to warrant holding the rights too.

I say you should expect them to sell off more things and maybe suspect them undergoing another possible rebranding.

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There's a lot of speculation that SE is selling off those less profitable IPs to make the company more attractive to Sony.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

If Sony did buy, I can see Playstation being the console exclusive but not the sole platform. I don't think they'd want to abandon the potential profits from the PC audience on the higher profile titles.



There's a lot of speculation that SE is selling off those less profitable IPs to make the company more attractive to Sony.

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I'm a bit curious as to whether or not this will be helpful to FFXIV if Sony were to buy SE. I really don't know enough about such things as to be able to have a reasonable guess at what would happen. What's your take on this, Jojoya?

As much as more money, resources, and less stress would be better. The more that I consider the current state of sony the more this is actually a bit scary. With Sony being more..... critical with Japanese titles that Nintendo has been seen as a better place for Japanese titles we might get more conservative with certain areas, which might be a win for some.

Also as western side of Sony has taken a bigger role in Sony I would worry that they might take a bit if Yoshi P's power over FFXIV as a whole.

Goddess this ancient rumour is like a stubborn Ascian.. it just doesn't die no matter how many times it gets quashed/debunked.

SE likes being multiplatform - they're not going to throw that away if Sony does come calling with a fat pocketbook.

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Originally Posted by Velvet_Lunarfang

Do you think SE gets bought by Sony? I hope not since Sony is more on the exclusive side and try not to multiplatform IP's sometimes.

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Sony has expressed a strong desire to release even more titles on PC lately, considering most or all of the previous ports were massive successes I'm pretty sure we're gonna see even more, not less.

SE's ethics department plus Sony's new stance on anime after they moved to califorina equals disaster for FFXIV. That said, this game is going to die one day; if it gets bought by Sony then I have a hunch that it will die in a pretty funny way, lol.