The corporate feels that it has turn out to be too reliant on the Closing Fantasy and Dragon Quest IPs!
Sq. Enix desires to modify issues up. In accordance with President Takashi Kiryu, the corporate will likely be slimming down its lineup of titles sooner or later. In a monetary briefing from November of final 12 months, Kiryu acknowledged that Sq. Enix is focusing an excessive amount of on its Closing Fantasy and Dragon Quest manufacturers and never doing sufficient to focus on different genres and types of of video games that followers get pleasure from. Kiryu feels that the corporate’s latest efforts to place out a wide selection of titles fell flat with customers, leading to some stable standouts like Closing Fantasy Pixel Remaster, but additionally outright failures just like the fan-maligned Forspoken.
Kiryu goes on to say that sooner or later, Sq. Enix will likely be slicing again on content material to be able to focus extra on producing a smaller, curated collection of high quality video games. Whereas he doesn’t say what these video games may be, Kiryu does notice that “the market is more and more polarized between blockbuster and indie titles” and that Sq. Enix will “wish to make clearer distinctions going ahead” with regards to the titles the corporate releases.
Supply: GamesIndustry.biz