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We have continued to make this our goal in the new fiscal year as demonstrated by the June 2015
launches of “MOBIUS FINAL FANTASY” and “DRAGON QUEST Dokodemo MONSTER PARADE,”
both of which are off to strong starts. In particular, we position “MOBIUS FINAL FANTASY” as a
strategic differentiator since its quality vastly exceeds that of conventional smartphone games. Its
massive popularity has significant implications for how we will approach our business going forward.
In short, we hope to create a situation where we achieve further growth via competition-crushing
content quality and delivery.
In the MMO space, “FINAL FANTASY XIV” and “DRAGON QUEST X Online” have developed into
stable earnings generators that underpin our financial performance. We launched new services and
undertook new initiatives with “DRAGON QUEST X Online,” including offering “Dragon Quest X
Companion App” and making the game available via the cloud on smart devices and Nintendo 3DS.
We are meanwhile rolling out “FINAL FANTASY XIV” to new service territories, having launched it in
China in August 2014 and with plans for a South Korean launch in September 2015. In the fiscal
year ending March 2016, we are working to retain existing players and to attract new players by
offering expansion discs for both games. These are examples of how we continue to promote these
two games with new development efforts and services in order to ensure their position as a major
earnings backbone for our Group.
In the HD (high-definition) game space, we released two new titles—“DRAGON QUEST
HEROES: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below,” in February, and “FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0
HD,” in March. As the first full-fledged action RPG (role-playing game) in the DRAGON QUEST
franchise, “DRAGON QUEST HEROES” has successfully added another alluring layer to the series.
“FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0 HD” is the HD version of the “FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0” title we had
previously made available on the PlayStation Portable (PSP) platform. Demand for the HD version
A Message to Our Shareholders
DRAGON QUEST X Online
©2012-2015 ARMOR PROJECT/BIRD STUDIO/SQUARE ENIX
All Rights Reserved.
FINAL FANTASY XIV
©2010-2015 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.
Dragon Quest X
Companion App
©2012-2015 ARMOR PROJECT/
BIRD STUDIO/SQUARE ENIX
All Rights Reserved.
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