Square Enix and Eidos to work on IP together |
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Since Square Enix's official acquisition of Eidos back in May, there've
been lots of hoping and speculating surrounding the possibility of the
two publishers crossing-over IPs. Here's your answer - in an interview
with Gamasutra, the CEOs of both companies reveal: "It's possible."Hold your horses though, they didn't say anything about Lara Croft jiggling while riding a Chocobo. "What's more important is that the two companies, for example, are going to be creating a new IP together," said Square Enix president Yoichi Wada. "What's going to be important is to be able to get a mutual understanding of each of the quarters so that we will be able [to create it], and what is going to be born from this new unity."
New IP is definitely welcome, but when asked about combining existing ones, "Certainly, we look at the broad exploitation and management of IP expertise at Square Enix, so the potential to further IPs in that direction is quite clear," said Phil Rogers, CEO of Eidos. So as far finding Masamunes with the help of an old guy named Cid in Tomb Raider, nothing has been planned so far.
How can they not? It combines East and West with numerous great IP to work with, resulting in a potentially lucrative project. For fans of both or either camp, Rogers leaves us with "I hope we do. I hope we do."
I hope so too.
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:( :( :( does this mean no tomb raider underworld 4 psp
"Numerous great IPs to work with?"
Like what?! Aside from from Tomb Raider, or Laura Croft making a cameo in a new Kingdom Hearts, what does Eidos have to offer? Ninja?! Deathtrap Dungeon?! LOL
It's not like Square and Eidos haven't collaborated before. I recall Eidos publishing FF7 and FF8 on PC.
Here's to funding for a Next-gen Soul Reaver!
in KH?!?! not a bad idea...Sora finally becomes a man!
In all seriousness though, Kingdom Hearts is dead. At least in the mind of developers. The fanbase is very much there, but the developers just dont give a $hit. How else can you explain the last 5 YEARS?!?! KH2 was great, and I was expecting KH3 in a year, but its been this long and ABSOLUTELY no news. NOt even a rumor. Its clear they have NO plans for a KH3.
And I remember hearing about KH BbS like 3 years ago. It does NOT take that long to make a PSP game. I guess they've just sort of given up except maybe for 2-3 dedicated developers. Finally we get something (KH 358/2 days), and it sucks balls. Basically an imitation of KH CoM with horrible and overly complicated plotline.
This series is dead.
hitman, theif, deus ex are some ips that have done well under edios.
but soul reaver would be awesome. but didnt they end that series?
damn dude calm down. kh 1 was released in 2001 i believe and it and kh2 came out in 2006. here in the us atleast. CoM was more of a bridge which is why it diidnt take so long to develop. now 358/2 days and birth by sleep are full on games on their own. which are still being worked on. im not expecting them to announce kh3 yet but tetsuya DID talk about it. said he had the characters in his head and that he had the story ready. and that its important to play the 2 games on psp and ds to get it. but obviously they cant work on it because the main team is working on final fantasy vs XIII. just be patient. they havent forgotten it. when kh2 came out i anticipated the kh3 announcement in 2011. so i had it coming lol
look at the kh2 website. It still says "coming soon" meaning none of them have even batted an eyelash in that direction.