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[Sensei]

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/03/square-enix-president-yosuke-matsuda-to-be-replaced-by-takashi-kiryu

https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/...the Company and a Consolidated Subsidiary.pdf

The official reason for the change is

[...] to reshape the management team with the goal of adopting ever-evolving technological innovations and maximizing on the creativity of [Square Enix Holdings Co. Ltd.]’s group in order to deliver even greater entertainment to its customers around the world.

 

[ValiantTraveler]

This new guy kinda reminds me of the Bogdanoff

Hope these ever-evolving technological innovations don’t mean NFT and GaaS…

 

[anthony2690]

Hopefully this president is smart enough to bring their games to every platform.

Drop all focus on nfts/metaverse.

& Doesn't blame crystal dynamics/eidos for their failings.

 

[lh032]

Ordered by King Jimbo

 

[Gobjuduck]

Square Enix making the dumbest moves in one year will do that. Square Enix is dying.

 

[Spaceman292]

Put Yoko Taro in charge

 

[kazuyamishima]

So Jimbo chose him huh?

 

[Thief1987]

Drop all focus on nfts/metaverse.

The guy who will be proposed as a new CEO has come from a metaverse company lol

 

[bitbydeath]

 

[anthony2690]

The guy who will be proposed as a new CEO came from a metaverse company lol

 

[Dick Jones]

The guy who will be proposed as a new CEO came from a metaverse company lol

 

[BlueLyria]

The guy who will be proposed as a new CEO came from a metaverse company lol

Please don't be real...

 

[YukiOnna]

Pretty crazy. Saw through righting the ship from the Yoichi Wada era by return of great AA titles and consistent development for FF, then these past years with the less than stellar Babylon's Fall or Luminous Studio, I guess it's not too surprising.

 

[cireza]

They should appoint Yuji Naka.

 

[Thief1987]

Please don't be real...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/takashi-kiryu-6350795b/

 

[GHound]

adopting ever-evolving technological innovations

That's a funny way of saying NFT scam bullshit.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/takashi-kiryu-6350795b/

If you're referring to dentsu, it's more like an advertising firm.

DENTSU INC.

The Dentsu website includes corporate information, information about our business, press releases, investor relations information, Sustainability activities, and more.

www.dentsu.co.jp

Dentsu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Mr Hyde]

First mission for CEO will be to post bail for Yuji Naka and give him unlimited funds to develop Balan Wonderworld 2.

 

[fermcr]

Square Enix really need to stop with the exclusive games crap. They are a multiplatform company.

Exclusive games from multiplatform developers only benefit the platform holder.

 

[supernova8]

New president is called Kiryu.....

vice president better be called Majima

 

[supernova8]

That's a funny way of saying NFT scam bullshit.



If you're referring to dentsu, it's more like an advertising firm.

DENTSU INC.

The Dentsu website includes corporate information, information about our business, press releases, investor relations information, Sustainability activities, and more.

www.dentsu.co.jp

Dentsu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

haha that advertising firm being investigated for rigging the advertising bids during the Tokyo Olympics! Woo!

 

[PanzerCute]

The guy who will be proposed as a new CEO has come from a metaverse company lol

Abslutely not. Dentsu is a PR/ Communication/digital consulting company.

 

[GHound]

haha that advertising firm being investigated for rigging the advertising bids during the Tokyo Olympics! Woo!

That'd be the one, though anything that was done after May of 2020 would have nothing at all to do with the man in question as that's apparently when his employment with the company ended and he joined Square shortly after.

 

[Loomy]

Put Yoko Taro in charge

Imagine the beautiful chaos lol

 

[systemr123]

The guy who will be proposed as a new CEO has come from a metaverse company lol

Squeenix going full PSVR2? . FFXVII PSVR2 and Yakuza PSVR2 confirmed!

 

[Spaceman292]

I wonder if they'll make any games ever again

 

[Damigos]

Hopefully the new guy will not be a crypto bro

 

[ValiantTraveler]

Square Enix making the dumbest moves in one year will do that. Square Enix is dying.

You will keep saying that in ten years.

 

[fran.fernandez]

Well square enix have best number from 2001. Worst time was 2011. They are doing pretty well… switch only ?

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

Square Enix making the dumbest moves in one year will do that. Square Enix is dying.

It's already dead.
What's left now is a rotting corpse that refuses to go away.

 

[SSfox]

Good riddance of this NFT sucker

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

Good riddance of this NFT sucker

But wait, there's more!

 

[reksveks]

Good riddance of this NFT sucker

Think the new guy is also a NFT sucker

 

[SteelCurtain 59]

Luckily they already sold off the studios I cared about, basically only the Just Cause and Life is Strange IP are left that I would be interested in.

 

[NikuNashi]

That's a funny way of saying NFT scam bullshit.



If you're referring to dentsu, it's more like an advertising firm.

http://[URL]https://www.dentsu.co.jp/en/

[/URL]

http://[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentsu

[/URL]

Dentsu is one of the biggest and most corrupt companies in Japan. They are linked to the government through back handers and are currently being investigated for Olympic bid bribery (which they have admitted).

 

[Dr. Claus]

Hopefully this president is smart enough to bring their games to every platform.

Drop all focus on nfts/metaverse.

& Doesn't blame crystal dynamics/eidos for their failings.

Dont' need to blame Crystal Dynamics/Eidos for failings as both companies failed on their own. Both sides fucked up in those situations.

 

[anthony2690]

Dont' need to blame Crystal Dynamics/Eidos for failings as both companies failed on their own. Both sides fucked up in those situations.

 

[Dr. Claus]

I got your "joke". It wasn't funny.

Also wanted to point out that Eidos/Crystal Dynamics absolutely did deserve a good bit of the blame for those games' failures.

 

[jm89]

Hopefully this president is smart enough to bring their games to every platform.

Being smart is actually improving the quality of their games, not sure how an ok to average lineup of games last year being released on more platforms is changing that.

 

[Brock2621]

They will for sure bring in an ETF expert

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

I wonder why

 

[Gambit2483]

I wonder why

Forspoken.

 

[Buggy Loop]

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/03/square-enix-president-yosuke-matsuda-to-be-replaced-by-takashi-kiryu

https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/web_Notification of Changes in the Representative Director of the Company and a Consolidated Subsidiary.pdf

The official reason for the change is

Matsuda totally botchered the western acquisitions. Put good projects to the guillotine that would have probably been released faster and better reviewed than their Japan output.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Getting rid of garbage Luminous studios engine, replacing it with UE5

Doubling down on making Japanese games and not pandering to woke western checklist quotas

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Forspoken.

what is that?

 

[Barakov]

The guy who will be proposed as a new CEO has come from a metaverse company lol

 

[SSfox]

Think the new guy is also a NFT sucker

But wait, there's more!

 

[adamsapple]

Can't even blame the western studios for this now lol.

 

[kiphalfton]

They should appoint Yuji Naka.

Or how about Hitomi Tanaka.

 

[Gambit2483]

what is that?

Best forgotten...

 

[Days like these...]

How about they give us a good FF that can rival Dragon Quest instead of the crap we've been getting since X?