Foundation: 1975
Headquarters: Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo
President: Yosuke Matsuda
Executive Summary: Square Enix Holdings is a Japanese video game developer, publisher, and distribution company known for its role-playing video game franchises, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded through the merger of Masafumi Miyamoto’s Square Co. and Yasuhiro Fukushima’s Enix in 2003. Enix, founded in the mid-1970s, primarily focused on video game publishing, and is most noted for publishing of the Dragon Quest series for consoles developed by Japanese video game development and localization company Chunsoft. For its part, Square Co. was founded in the early 1980s as a computer game software division of another company and is best known for its development and publication of the role-playing game Final Fantasy. Along with video game publishing and development, Square Enix is also involved in the business of arcade and amusement parks facilities, as well as manga publishing under its subsidiary brand Gangan Comics. Square Enix also has a commitment to the film industry, often based on its video game franchises, though it has so far failed to garner great success at the box office revenue. Square Enix has subsidiaries in countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, China, and India. Its annual income is in the range of US$3 billion.
