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So Tekken's producer Katsuhiro Harada recently tweeted to the Xenosaga community about how some people at Bandai-Namco would love to give the old Xenosaga franchise an HD treatment
>>> Bandai-Namco still own part of the Xeno series? this means Squareenix can put their hands on Xenogears again if they wanted?
I just dont get all the legal stuff behind the Xeno series migrating from one publisher to another, if someone could explain it to me it would be great..
Square-Enix owns the rights Xenogears which was developed back in the days of Square. The team left and formed their own company called Monolith Soft after Square nixed the idea of making Xenogears into its own series.

Monolith Soft created Xenosaga with the help of Namco-Banda, at the time Namco. Namoc-Bandai thus owns the rights to Xenosaga. The series started off promising but executive meddling, core staff quitting/being let go and weak sales as the series contiue

Nintendo later bought Monolith Soft to become a second party developer for them, where they went on to develop Xenoblade and Xenoblade Chronicles X.

All of the Xeno games are developed by the same team that did Xenogears (though some staff members have left and new ones have joined over the years) but their games have been published and thus owned by three different companies.