In the past few years we have seen Square Enix go through a rather significant shake-up, selling off a bunch of its Western developers and IPs alongside streamlining its internal company structure. This has led to the release of AAA experiences such as Final Fantasy XVI and FFVII Remake. In a recent shareholder meeting, the publisher revealed their future plans for the industry.

As part of Square Enix’s most recent fiscal earnings report, the publisher hosted a Q&A session, where they were asked “In the Company’s existing businesses, it has longer gaps between game releases than its peers do. Even if the quality of its titles is high, these long gaps seem to impact sales. What are your thoughts on the release schedule for major future titles?”

The Chairperson responded as follows: “I will refrain from speaking in specifics, but I will say that we believe that the strengthening of our internal development organization will be of benefit as the difficulty of developing major titles is becoming extremely high, which also has implications for development lead times. We hope that this reinforcement of our organization will promote the development not only of major titles but also new IPs under the new management team.”

While it seems as though Square Enix plans to continue with their current strategy of releasing high-quality titles in a less-regular cadence, the publisher did suggest that they will be supplementing these releases, responding to a question about remasters by saying “We will refrain from sharing information about new titles, but we are considering various ideas within the Company and hope that you will look forward to forthcoming announcements.”

So far, Square Enix’s new strategy seems to be working out well for the company. It will be interesting to see how they progress over the course of the generation.

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