Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, and Phantasy Star Nova are Dead... Mobile Games to Replace Them

Quote :

Nepro Japan announced today that it will be acquiring all of Tri-Ace, the video game developer responsible for such titles as Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Phantasy Star Nova.

Tri-Ace is privately owned. According to Kabutan, the acquisition will cost 413 million yen (about $3.5 million), which cost will be composed of 333 million yen in cash payments and 80 million yen in Nepro shares. This cost does not include advisory fees and the like.

Bloomberg describes Nepro Japan as a company that focuses on mobile communications. However, Nepro Japan’s subsidiaries also develop video games for mobile devices, and the company is looking to further bolster its presence in the mobile games market with acquisitions such as this.

http://nichegamer.net/2015/02/tri-ace-to-be-acquired-by-nepro-japan-refocused-on-the-mobile-games-market/

Hopefully all the employees will just quit and keep working on real games instead.

I thought Valkyrie was already dead?

Saw this earlier, i only played FFXIII-2 but i was always interested in Star Ocean, especially after seeing this trailer 


Really fucking bummed out hearing this news, wish Nintendo or Square(yes even they'd be better) would've bought them instead.

Nuu!

Hopefully most of them will leave and form a new studio like what happen with most of Capcom's former talents.

Fuck mobile games. Fucking cancer on the industry.

Stigma wrote:

Fuck mobile games. Fucking cancer on the industry.

u wot m8 clash of clans is fucking sick!

http://nichegamer.com/2015/03/tri-ace-is-going-to-continue-making-traditional-console-games/

It seems that Zepro acquired Tri-Ace as a means to deliver satisfying content into a larger market, rather than just mobile.