Yosuke Masuda, president of Square Enix, predicts web browser gaming will grow.
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Square Enix president expects AI, 5G cellular, and digital payments to benefit gaming

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Yosuke Masuda, president of Square Enix, predicted that 5G networks could make high-quality web browser games in the HTML5 format more popular. In a New Years letter today, Masuda also said that new digital payment technologies could also help gaming grow better in emerging territories.

Square Enix is one of Japan’s biggest with sales of $2.2 billion for its most recent fiscal year. Its interest in emerging technologies is important because Square Enix is the kind of company that can make them into mainstream tech.

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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.