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Square Enix says Crystal Dynamics and Eidos sale won’t be invested in NFTs and blockchain

Lunatic_Gamer

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Square Enix has said that money raised from the sale of a large part of its western development arm won’t be reinvested in NFTs and blockchain.

During the Japanese publisher’s full-year financial results briefing on May 13 (which has today been published in English), president Yosuke Matsuda said the money from the sale will be used to strengthen the company’s core games business.

“Rather than using the proceeds from the divestiture in new investment domains such as NFT and blockchain, we intend to use them primarily to fund our efforts to foster solid IP and to enhance our development capabilities in our core Digital Entertainment segment,” he said.

“Our intention is to undertake fundraising efforts for our new investment domains separate from those for our core business, and we are considering various possibilities, including potentially establishing a CVC.”

Commenting on the decision to sell off the overseas studios and IPs, Matsuda said “its primary purpose was a reorientation of our portfolio”.

He added: “We especially revisited our studio and title portfolios from the perspective of stepping up our offering of online titles that we develop for the North American and the European market.”

“We want to focus on creating new titles that align with our strategy, including ones that leverage new IP. The Just Cause franchise will remain our IP, and we are at work developing a new title in the franchise.”

During the Q&A session of the briefing, Matsuda was asked if the sale of multiple western studios means the company will be focusing exclusively on developing online titles for overseas markets.

“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,” he responded.

 

Vognerful

Member
Square saw quickly how the NFT market crashed and gamers fury with them.

I am glad they gained their senses back.........................until they lose it again.
 
Of all things they decide to hold on to Just Cause? It is still unbelievable what SE has done.
 
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Good. They can shove NFTs up their butthole so far that their colon bleeds and falls out of their mouth on to a picture of a Bored Ape.
 
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