That could TOTALLY be Tifa! THINK ABOUT IT!
MCV is reporting that both Warner Bros. and Square Enix preparing bids to take over Eidos. Other reports concerning Ubisoft and EA showing interest have also surfaced, but the Warner and Square bids sound much more serious.
Apparently Square Enix has even been checking in on Eidos' assets, including a visit to IO Interactive from Yoichi Wada. Square's been making noise recently about wanting to be more relevant to the Western markets. I'm not really sure that picking up the company that does Tomb Raider, Hitman, and Age of Conan is the best way to accomplish that task, but hey, I guess I'd rather play any one of those games than the last few Final Fantasy games, so maybe they're onto something.
Warner Bros., however, already owns 20 percent of Eidos, giving them a leg up on everyone else. MCV estimates that Warner would need to spend another $80 million to totally control Eidos.
Still, it'd be interesting to watch Square Enix influence the next batch of Eidos releases. Would Agent 47 be painted as a more reluctant hero who kills all his foes with an oversized sword in Hitman X-2? Will Kane be able to summon an Esper form of Lynch to breathe unholy fire over all of their foes for 9999 damage apiece in Kane and Lynch II? Will whoever steps in and takes over finally put out a new Fear Effect game?
Seriously, what would Square do with Eidos properties? At least both Square and Enix made RPGs nearly exclusively.
And wait... Square isn't already effective in the Western market? Okay, that may be true if you cut out the whole Final Fantasy franchise, but you can hardly do that when it's the franchise the company is known best for. And on top of that, how would buying up a bunch of overused and hardly A rated properties from Eidos? Hitman is great, but never gets the credit it deserves. Tomb Raider has been garbage since after game one up until now (supposedly, with the latest game recieving a bit of praise from most of my own sources).