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Square Enix CEO is still taking risks with bets on core console games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Square Enix has continued to thrive as one of the few successful companies that can make games that appeal to those both in the East and West. Last year, it generated $1.97 billion in revenues and profits of $183 million thanks to big hits like Final Fantasy XIV.

Now it is coming out with heavy schedule of blockbusters for 2016, including Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Final Fantasy XV, and even an experiment with virtual reality, dubbed Final Fantasy XV VR. We talked about this slate with Yosuke Matsuda, who became chief executive of the Japanese company after longtime CEO Yoichi Wada stepped down to run Shinra Technologies, a supercomputing cloud games startup.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.