Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com March 5, Square Enix announced that it intends to replace Yosuke Matsuda, president and representative director of the company, pending approval at the company's annual general meeting in June.

▲ Yosuke Matsuda has been president of Square Enix since 2013, and Square said in a statement that the position would be replaced by Takashi Takashi, who is now chairman of China. The decision was made to "reshape the management team, with the goal of adopting evolving technological innovation and maximizing the creativity of the company's team".

As previously reported by CTOnews.com, during his 10 years as president of Square Enix, Yosuke Matsuda sold the company's famous development studios-Crystal Dynamics, Square Enix Montre é al and Eidos- Montre é al-to Embracer Group for $300 million (currently about RMB 2.073 billion), as well as "Tomb Raider", "break the siege", "God steal" and other IP.

In addition, Matsuda Yosuke controversially advocated the integration of blockchain NFT technology into game development. In the company's 2023 New year's letter, Yosuke Matsuda mentioned the "blockchain" 14 times, calling it the new business area that Square Enix was "most focused on" pursuing.

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