Gaming Journal Archives- 2001
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December 11, 2001 Don't hold your breath waiting for any game from Square to be released for the Xbox or GameCube. Now that Sony owns a 20 percent stake of Square and is asserting its force within the company, it doesn't look like Square will be getting into multi-platform development anytime soon. Sony and Square both claim that Square can make games for other consoles whenever it wants, but the same line was used for 989 Studios, and it never made any games for other consoles. Also, you've got to love the statement from a Square spokesperson that the company might be developing Game Boy Advance games in the future because "Sony doesn't have a handheld system, so it wouldn't be a conflict." This implies that because Sony has a console, it would be "a conflict" for Square to release games on other consoles. So, in order to get a short-term cash boost from Sony, Square has severely limited its long-term earnings potential by all but eliminating the possibility of the multi-platform development gold mine. Square must have been really desperate for cash to take a short-term gain at the expense of the long-term health of the company. Has anyone looked into the possibility that Square is somehow being run by Imagine Media's management team?
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