The medium-term business strategy that Square Enix had unveiled in May 2020 identified AI, the cloud, and blockchain games as new domains to focus its investments, in order to address these changes in the business environment..
A merger between Enix and Square was finalized in November 2002 after Sony acquired 18.6% of Square in 2001.
Matsuda hopes that this will make the company’s content more accessible and its services uniformly available, and Square Enix will make ample investments in the cloud space.
Square Enix is looking to leverage cloud technologies to distribute content and develop content that “offers customers new forms of excitement” enabled by the cloud.