The president of Japanese publishing big Sq. Enix, Takashi Kiryu, has stated he desires his firm’s output to be extra numerous.
In an investor Q&A – as reported by IGN – the exec stated that the success of FuturLab’s Powerwash Simulator has impressed the corporate to dream greater. The shortage of range in its line-up was considered one of two areas the place Kiryu stated Sq. Enix was falling behind; the opposite was weak advertising.
“As a result of we possess robust IPs just like the Dragon Quest and Closing Fantasy franchises, I imagine that we’ve got tended to be overly reliant on sure gameplay types or genres,” Kiryu defined.
“In the meantime, the tastes of shoppers within the gaming market have diversified, and prospects have come to take pleasure in content material from quite a lot of genres. Furthermore, blockbuster titles usually are not the one ones that take pleasure in recognition. For instance, our title Powerwash Simulator is considerably of an outlier in our portfolio in that it’s a recreation nicely fitted to informal play, however we’ve got been in a position to steadily construct up our earnings from it.”
He continued, replying to a later query: “As our prospects’ wants and the kinds of units obtainable have diversified, we’ve got tried to provide hits by creating all kinds of titles quite than by focusing solely on sure ones. I imagine that this has resulted within the splintering of our useful resource pool. In the meantime, there have been clear winners and losers among the many main titles launched lately within the gaming market, and it has turn into potential for even indies titles to make their presence felt. The market is more and more polarized between blockbuster and indies titles, however I really feel that we’ve got developed many titles that fell someplace within the center. I wish to make clearer distinctions going ahead.”
Powerwash Simulator has shifted over seven million copies thus far.