News flash! ENIX and Square announce a merger!

Credit goes to Nubbe

November 26, 2002


- A new company name is ENIX, Square!


ENIX and Square announce a merger! A new company name is "SUKUUEA ENIX"!!

Square and ENIX announced that it resolved that both companies merged by each board of directors held on November 26 today. The trade name of a new company plans "ENIX, Square, Inc.,." It is a thing that April 1, 2003 becomes a merger date. It is the most important subject of a company how growth is continued, while according to the release both companies set at the serious leather term of the future entertainment industry which makes a background rapid innovation of "computer technology or communication environment and spread about the purpose of this merger and an enterprise opportunity, a deployment domain, and a market are increased and diversified increasingly. It is commented that a reply of ENIX to this subject and Square is this merger."


In addition, the schedule to which a press conference is held in the city of Tokyo from 3:30 p.m. about the details of a merger today. This pattern will be carried later on.


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Yahoo Japan:

ENIX and Square -- it merges in a prospect on April 1, next year

[Tokyo 26-day Reuters] It was announced that ENIX <9684.T> and Square <9620.T> merge around April 1, 2003. The name of a new company is "ENIX, Square," and makes ENIX a surviving company.
0.81 stocks of ENIX stocks are assigned to one stock of Square stocks with a merger.
For ordinary profit to change 80 billion yen and a current income is likely for the term consolidated sales ended March, 2005 of a new company to change to 15 billion yen 27 billion yen. (Reuters)
[Renewal of 12:22 on November 26]


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From Nikkei:

It will be merger" in ENIX and Square "next year 4 month.

ENIX and Square, a major game company, announced on the 26th that they merge on April 1, next year. A merger of major game makers is the first. Competition is intensifying by increase of development expense, or an overseas maker\'s rise, and the game industry strengthens a profit base while heightening development power by merger.

A new company name is "ENIX, Square," and a surviving company is ENIX. 0.81 stocks of ENIX stocks are assigned to one stock of Square stock. A merger new company will expect the consolidated sales of 80 billion yen, and net earnings of 15 billion yen at the term ended March, 2005.

Square is holding "Final Fantasy" and ENIX is holding the "Dragon Quest" series and popular software. Failure of a movie enterprise is echoed and Square will fall to the consolidated net loss for two consecutive terms by the first half. Management -- the Sony group takes over capital increase -- was getting worse. On the other hand, since achievements were large and ENIX was changed by the existence of hot-selling product "DORAKUE" sale, strengthening of a profit base was years of subject. (12:25)

Good, bad, sleepy, gay? What do you think?

already been done over in CD section

Originally posted by ooseven
already been done over in CD section

AND HOW AM I SUPPOSED TOI KNOIW THAT?

Btw.. This is very big news and should be posted in the main forum.

I command you to delete the other thread.. DO AS I SAY!

[GmanJoe]

I wonder where Sony stands on this. They own like nearly 20% of Square.

Maybe we\'ll actually see FFXI released now.

What was Enix\'s famous RPG series called?I forgot.Could someone enlighten me?Their last game of the series was released on PS1 after some years in development.I think it was released only in Japan.(Used to be a competitor to Squares FF series).

[GmanJoe]

Dragon Quest

EDIT

AND STAR OCEAN! i think

[Paul2]

speaking of dragon quest.  I never played any of the series.

If anybody here have played all  or some of the dragon quest i-vii
tell me what you think is the best series was?

Originally posted by GmanJoe
Dragon Quest

Thats the one.

Originally posted by Paul2
speaking of dragon quest.  I never played any of the series.

If anybody here have played all  or some of the dragon quest i-vii
tell me what you think is the best series was?

It\'s been a while since I played any of them, VII I played about a year ago.  I wasn\'t particularily impressed with VII, as I\'ve grown used to the FF series, and started expecting more from games.

All in all, I like them.  The best out of the series? Hmm.. I dunno, I like them all pretty equally.  Maybe IV, V, and VI.  I, II and III were on the original Famicom, so writing down long passwords became really tedious after a while, but the games were good.

Okay, so this was a pretty much pointless post.  Basically, I liked them when they came out, but if you played them now, I don\'t think you\'ll find anything really special about them.  Almost all RPGs that you play nowadays have taken from the Dragon Quest and FF series, and used many aspects of those two games, so you\'ll probably think, "ugh, how unoriginal" or something like that.  But if they ever make a VIII, I\'ll be first in line to buy it.

By the way, Enix published the series, but the core group that made everything was Armored Project, Bird Studio, and HeartBeat.  Bird Studio I believe is the art direction studio, headed by Akira Toriyama (creator of Dragon Ball).  HeartBeat was the core programming group, I believe, and have basically have folded and stated back in February that they will be leaving the industry.  Their webpage has disappeared since.
http://www.zdnet.co.jp/gamespot/gsnews/0202/03/news07.html

So the future of this great RPG series now probably rests in the hands of Square.... but funny, because FF and DQ used to battle it out for top RPG game of the year back in the days..  Square just dusted Enix with FFVII, and we never really heard from DQ again.

It only matters if Square Enix decides to venture into more action oriented, NON overly melodramatic, NON anime styled RPG\'s

otherwise it does nothing for me

[Kurt Angle]

Maybe ps2 will now get an update of Star Ocean?

Originally posted by ddaryl
It only matters if Square Enix decides to venture into more action oriented, NON overly melodramatic, NON anime styled RPG\'s

otherwise it does nothing for me

Oo, oo! Japanese company doing something original and venturing out into new yet risky stuff?

Sorry, probably not in their current economic status.  Which reminds me, I\'ve been having a lot of fun with FFXI lately.  There\'s lots to do, and I\'m starting to find out new things about the game finally.

You have FFXI?!

Ohhhh... I can\'t wait for them to release it here.  I wish I knew Japanese, then I would import it.  The wait is killing me.

Originally posted by Kurt Angle
Maybe ps2 will now get an update of Star Ocean?

Ummm Star Ocean 3 is due out in a few months in Japan for PS2......