Sony should defitnetly jump at this oppurtunity

they'll reap many rewards for this :D

Yarp

I'm more worried about Microsoft deciding to publish Square-Enix games

@swanky2167

Me too!!! :O

My thought's excactly swanky2167.

Id publish all of square-enix's games.... if I could. and yeahm Sony should jusp to be squares publisher in the US. oh, and im sure if Square put more blood, violence and needless death in their games, us Westerners would jump all over that right? :) Look at Fable. you can go Slaughter a whole village for no aparent reason, us westerners love that (I Hate that game) @swanky2167, i doubt square would ever accept Microsofts offer, since that would mean they wouldnt be able to put FFXIII on ps3 anymore. theyve made every game except 1 for the PS1/2/3

psn id: gingo...i also think sony should jump at this opportunity becasue this is a chance to keep square enix games on playstation consoles exclusively for life

Always the US market... What about the EU market... :@

If this is the case will the final fantasy franchises in the future and other square enix titles such as dragon quests hit united states ever again. If this is the case then maybe american publishers and developers and studios dont wanna take in such a a genre because how united states seems highly fascinated by First person shooters 100% the other genres are medium state though.

I hope Microsoft does not take this Sony better make there move now Microsoft with Square-Enix is not a good thing at all :(

@swanky....well i doubt it...i dont think they would go to microsoft...although in a business perspective that might be the best way to go....but they have been the most loyal to sony despite the fact they brought FF11 to x-box and that was a good idea actually cuz it was online only but yea u get my point..

@kojiro and mystik

I don't think SE would mind bringing their products to 360, since they are in obvious, and very public, disagreement with how Sony is handling the marketing of the PS3.  If they don't think the PS3 will sell,  why wouldn't they start adopting a new lead console for their games?  And if I were Microsoft, I would look at SE's doubts towards the PS3 and try to get them to change allegiances.

**edit** and that doesn't mean that FF13 would be ported to the 360, it could be exempt from any deal made.  Only future titles could be made 360 exclusive.

What?  Video game crash recent?  That was 25 years ago...Square wasn't nearly what they are now.  You make it sound as though they had already taken over the Japanese market in 1983...that crash was worldwide.  This site is the worst for news.  Oh, and Square was going under in 1987 and they released Final Fantasy, intending for it to be their FINAL game, hence the name.  It went on to sell as well as Dragon Quest and kept Squaresoft afloat.  Your article makes no sense...

sony go befor microsoft gets it

@ jouninGarrett

Yea that line "only having just recovering from the video game crash of 1983 a few years ago." made me laugh. I had to read that twice just to make sure thats what it said.

@frosty cass

Yeah, I made several comments on their recent "FF7 re-make announcement @ TGS" topic and several users agreed with me.  Guess what?  The article is completely missing off the site now.  The idiots who run this site had someone call them out, got scared, and took it down.  And I 'loled' at the 1983 recent thing too.

This will  be the biggest kick in the nuts for either MS or SCEA,I just hope SCEA can fork out the cash for this one.

I might be mistaken but I thought SCEA and SCEE have both published Square games in the past in America and Europe respectively. I think what Square is after is a partner who can help push them in the West who has experience of marketing to westerners someone like Ubisoft or EA would be the comapanies that spring to mind. Also given Sony's continued weak sales of the PS3 I'm sorry but Square-Enix would have to look at publishing games for the Wii and the Xbox 360 if they ever wished to get 50% of their sales from Overseas. The PS3 is too expensive and its selling slowly because of it and Sony need to wake up because I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Japanese Devs started to follow Capcoms lead and do more for the 360. Its not about throwing money at Square-Enix for exclusivity deals, this is about publishing their games in Western markets in a way that would appeal to us Westerner. Decisions on exlcusivity etc. are completely separate and as such I'd expect them to go for niether Microsoft or Sony as a publishing partner given their obviously limited focus.

@rossinator

No, they are definitely talking about the Western Market...Square recovered nicely in '87 when the first FF was released and Enix has always been doing well thanks in part to their Dragon Quest series.  Seriously, this site is littered with morons.

2kgames or Sony would be great for this.