Square Enix denies going private after Japanese media report
Publisher addresses speculation from business magazine Sentaku claiming foreign investment funds had shown interest.
What to know
- Square Enix denied a Sentaku magazine report claiming it was exploring going private with interest from foreign investment funds.
- The company stated the report was not announced by Square Enix and that no such consideration is underway.
- The speculation triggered stock market movement before the denial.
“The September issue of the monthly magazine Sentaku carried a report regarding the possibility of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. going private. However, this information was not announced by the Company.”
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What people are saying 13 voices from 1 site · verbatim
- Sep 3
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So, Dawntrail didn’t do as well as Endwalker (the previous expansion) But Endwalker literally fried their servers. It took over an hour to log in for the first week of EW. It was actually insane.
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Mate, Kingdom Hearts is literally one of their three flagship series and has been action rpg from the onset. It is genuinely ridiculous to be thinking that turn-based vs action in Final Fantasy is the crux of these things especially when they've never stopped publishing turn-based titles.
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because investment funds give good access to money while being extremely hands off.
- Sep 2
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Lmao the age of the person doesn’t exactly qualify them as a financial analyst 😭
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"They" being accounts bought by some shady PR firm posting a sentiment nobody feels? I don't think they think anything. Person you are replying to was describing astroturfing.
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I realized I made a slight mistake I put IX instead of XI. From my understanding or the way people here make it seems like XIV is one bad expansion away from being shut down. I can possibly see that for FFXI but idk about XIV maybe I am wrong.
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Nomura has his own firm and owns 3.11% of SE 🤯 no wonder he has so much sway there
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most of their money-making comes from the non-gaming part of the company, which makes more than the game division, and legal: sony cannot invest anymore or outright buy them due to that.
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I'm not sure when activist and the term investor became interchangeable but we certainly live in a silly fucking world
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People say it because it is generally pretty low-tier when compared to the rest of the series, not because it failed at being a final fantasy game.
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Monkey’s paw curls SE gets bought by a pachinko company, who releases final fantasy reskinned versions of pachinko mobile games. /joking
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You know, the game had its issues. Largely it was that the game was a financial failure due to how many years it spent in development hell and how many times they retooled it. It was more of a failure from a “cut content” perspective as it was a shell of what it could have been. Ultimately, it’s clear that the FFVII Remake series is the result of…
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I hate when people say this. Many entries in the series have different settings, themes, and aesthetics. Just because this one did something new doesn’t make it any less FF.