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New Square Enix president promises a review of the company

April 3, 2013 6:56AM PDT
By Martin Gaston, News Editor

Yosuke Matsuda says he'll look at the publisher and squeeze out what doesn't work.

New Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda has promised a fundamental review of the publisher.

"After having succeeded the important role as the president, I plan on reviewing all Square Enix duties, business and assets on a zero-based budgeting standpoint," Matsuda explained in a briefing to investors (via Siliconera).

Matsuda became Square Enix president last week following the resignation of Yoichi Wada amid the announcement of "extraordinary losses" in the company's financial report. Wada had held the role for over a decade.

"I'd like to fundamentally review what works and what doesn't work for our company," continued Matsuda, "then cast all of our resources towards extending what makes us successful and thoroughly squeezing out what doesn't."

Phil Rogers, the current CEO of Square Enix Europe, will be promoted to company director and assist Matsuda.

Yoichi Wada will remain at the company in a non-managerial role. "I will be retiring from the line of management, but I plan to work on site as a way to pay my debt to the company," he said.

Last week Square Enix blamed the poor performance of its titles in America and Europe for its unsatisfactory revenue, and instigated a major restructuring process that the company expects will lead to a loss of 10 billion yen for the financial year ending March 31.

The publisher is currently working on Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and HD versions of Final Fantasy X and X-2. A new Final Fantasy announcement has been promised for E3 2013, and Square Enix is also in charge of Eidos Montreal's next-gen reboot of Thief, which is due for release in 2014.

By Martin Gaston, News Editor

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So he's going to do what Wada's been doing since he took over? Remakes, rehashes of Final Fantasy and iOS games up the wazoo is apparently what works and what they've been focusing on for the past 10 years.



JayWood2010 said:

 

The publisher is currently working on Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and HD versions of Final Fantasy X and X-2...

 


The publisher is working on a mainline FF game: XIV you disturbingly ignorant "journalist".



He should start announcing Kingdom Hearts 3 and give Versus XIII a release date.



Please be excited.



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zumnupy10 said:
He should start announcing Kingdom Hearts 3 and give Versus XIII a release date.

What part of big sellers lost money did you miss ?

Naoki Yoshida said that Square cannot afford A Realm Reborn not to work.

Meanwhile, fans are in their own dreamworld ! Give us Secret of mana remake, Chrono Trigger sequel, a new FF Tactics and a Kingdomhearts 3 while you're at it (a game whose target audience was born when the first one was made).



Soriku said:


But KH3 is coming.


Yes but after an attempt at reviving the series with the collections.



Soriku said:

The series doesn't need to be revived, it just need KH3 on a console already.


I wish this were true but you cannot speculate when it comes to productions that could result in "extraordinary losses".



Announcing KH3 and release day for Versus, that would be too much asked. I would rather expect a Final fantasy type-0 for vita, and Kingdom Hearts 2.5 to be on ps3 and vita