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SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
FY2022/3 Financial Results Briefing Session Q&A
Date/Time: May 13, 2022 (Fri.) 6:30-7:30 p.m. (JST)
Main speaker: Yosuke Matsuda, President and Representative Director
Q&A
Q: Several of the new HD game titles you have released in the past few years have struggled in terms of profitability. Could you reflect on that? Could you also describe your thinking on your forthcoming pipeline, as represented by your growing content production account?
A: We have to admit that multiple HD game titles released in the past two years have struggled in terms of their performance. Meanwhile, our content production account includes multiple new titles leveraging major existing IPs, and we are developing them to a very high level of quality. We plan to release information on each of those titles going forward as developments warrant.
Q: In the past, you had said that you wanted to focus on development efforts that leveraged the strengths of your individual studios. Does the sale of the multiple overseas studios that you announced on May 2 mean that you will be focusing exclusively on developing online titles for overseas markets?
A: We will not necessarily be focusing exclusively on online titles, but they do represent a key area of interest for us going forward, and we intend to develop titles that offer greater scalability and flexibility.