{"id":303051,"date":"2025-05-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=354856"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:38:14","slug":"square-enix-starts-a-transformation-plan-that-fans-have-been-demanding-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/square-enix-starts-a-transformation-plan-that-fans-have-been-demanding-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix starts a transformation plan that fans have been demanding for years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Square Enix has entered a significant period of silence following the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake, creating an aura of mystery around its upcoming strategies and projects. <strong>Despite the expectations, no relevant news has been announced for its flagship franchises<\/strong>, which has led to speculation about the company&#8217;s next moves.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It will take three years, due to its ambition<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, Square Enix has launched an ambitious three-year transformation plan, which focuses on improving the quality of its games, prioritizing cross-platform expansion and reorganizing its development teams. <strong>This suggests a renewed focus on producing more refined titles, where the company seeks to increase its competitiveness in a constantly evolving market<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To focus its resources, Square Enix has made the difficult decision to cancel Kingdom Hearts Missing Link, a mobile game.<strong> The decision responds to the need to redirect more funds towards Kingdom Hearts 4, the highly anticipated next chapter of the saga<\/strong>. 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It will take three years, due to its ambition Recently, Square Enix has launched an ambitious three-year transformation plan, which focuses on improving the quality of its games, prioritizing multiplatform expansion [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":303052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[11416,1566,4479,11417,11418,4481],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-303051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-dragon-quest-3-hd-2d-remake","tag-final-fantasy","tag-final-fantasy-vii-rebirth","tag-kingdom-hearts-4","tag-kingdom-hearts-missing-link","tag-square-enix","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303065,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303051\/revisions\/303065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303051"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=303051"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=303051"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=303051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}