Foundation: 1975
Headquarters: Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo
President: Yosuke Matsuda
Executive Summary: Square Enix Holdings is a prominent Japanese video game developer, publisher, and distributor, headquartered in Shinjuku, Tokyo, renowned for its role-playing game franchises. The company was formed in 2003 from the merger of Masafumi Miyamoto’s Square Co. and Yasuhiro Fukushima’s Enix.
Enix, established in the mid-1970s, initially focused on video game publishing and became famous for its Dragon Quest series, which was developed by Chunsoft. On the other hand, Square Co., started in the early 1980s as a software division for computer games, gained fame for creating the Final Fantasy series.
Beyond video games, Square Enix’s business ventures include operating arcade and amusement facilities and publishing manga through its subsidiary, Gangan Comics. The company has also ventured into the film industry, adapting its game franchises into movies, though these have not been major commercial successes at the box office.
Square Enix maintains a global presence with subsidiaries in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, China, and India. Its annual revenue is in the range of US$3 billion.
