Square Enix will be “aggressive in applying AI”, confirms President
Square Enix President Takashi Kiryu has released a new year letter outlining the strategies that the publisher will be adopting going forward. One of those is the application of AI in content development as well as publishing, using AI in conjunction with other technologies. There is also talk of making the development chain more efficient, while on the publishing side there is more effort being put into better collaboration globally in an effort to expand the fan base of Square Enix titles with new games, as well as games from the publisher back catalogue.
Square Enix will still be allocating resources to support expansion in blockchain, Web 3.0, and the Cloud, but the letter does not go into full detail on how these technologies will be implemented in the long term. It seems Square Enix will also be looking at expanding more into VR and augmented reality content in the future too. The full letter from Takashi Kiryu can be read below.
I would like to begin by wishing everyone a happy New Year.
People’s lives took a turn for the better in 2023 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic largely subsiding, after having raged for so long, and to the lifting of the restrictions it had triggered. At the same time, 2023 was also a year of tumult exemplified by an intensification in geopolitical risks and sharp inflation stemming partly from monetary policy moves made by central banks grappling with the pandemic. Regions, countries, and even we as individuals found ourselves in a time of transition as the world struggled to establish what the “new normal” would look like following the pandemic.
With uncertainty on the rise in society as a whole, change was also underway in the realm of digital entertainment, where we position our core
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