Square Enix

What Square Enix is

Square Enix is a Japanese game publisher and entertainment group based in Tokyo. Its corporate profile is published by Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd., the holding company for the group, and reports the company's activities across games, amusement facilities, publishing and merchandising. The profile gives net sales of 324.5 billion yen for the financial year ended March 31, 2025, split across digital entertainment, amusement, publication and merchandising.

The corporate profile states that the company's representative director is Takashi Kiryu, President and Representative Director, and that its shares are listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange under the code 9684. It also records common stock of 24,039 million yen as of March 31, 2025, and 367,594,788 shares issued and outstanding as of October 1, 2025, following a three-for-one stock split.

Corporate structure and scale

The corporate profile gives Square Enix Holdings' establishment date as September 22, 1975, and lists its headquarters at Shinjuku Eastside Square, 6-27-30 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, with a second office at Shibuya Sakura Stage in Shibuya. The profile states that the group had 4,604 employees as of March 31, 2025.

Within the group, Square Enix Co., Ltd. is the company handling game development and publishing, sharing offices and leadership with the holding company. The corporate profile is issued under the holding company's name and covers the group as a whole, including its digital entertainment, amusement, publication and merchandising segments.

NieR: Automata in our database

Our database lists Square Enix as the publisher of NieR: Automata. The game's Steam store page names Square Enix and PlatinumGames Inc. as developers and Square Enix as publisher, gives a release date of March 17, 2017, and places the title in the NIER franchise. The page describes the game as an action role-playing title following androids 2B, 9S and A2 in a machine-driven world.

The Steam listing covers the standard game plus a Game of the YoRHa Edition that bundles downloadable content and bonus items, including the 3C3C1D119440927 content pack. Square Enix appears in our database only as a publisher, matching its role in the NieR: Automata credits.

The group's business areas

Square Enix Holdings reports its revenue across four segments. For the financial year ended March 31, 2025 the corporate profile gives digital entertainment at 206.5 billion yen, amusement at 71.2 billion yen, publication at 30.7 billion yen and merchandising at 19.0 billion yen, in each case within total net sales of 324.5 billion yen.

The group's games business sits in the digital entertainment segment, which covers console, PC and mobile titles produced and published by Square Enix Co., Ltd. The publication and merchandising segments cover the group's book and comic publishing and goods business, while the amusement segment covers its arcade operations.

The games reporting segment

Games dominate Square Enix's reported revenue. The corporate profile gives digital entertainment sales of 206.5 billion yen for the financial year ended March 31, 2025, out of total net sales of 324.5 billion yen. That makes the segment roughly twice the size of the group's next largest reported segment, amusement, which the profile gives as 71.2 billion yen.

The corporate profile is issued by the holding company and reports the group's results across digital entertainment, amusement, publication and merchandising. It gives the group's employee count as 4,604 as of March 31, 2025, and lists its Tokyo offices at Shinjuku Eastside Square in Shinjuku and Shibuya Sakura Stage in Shibuya.

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