Shareholder of Square Enix questions the company president!

A shareholder at a recent Square Enix investor meeting reportedly questioned the company's relationship with Sweet Baby Inc.

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According to the self-described “shareholder meeting enthusiast” (as written in their X profile page and machine translated via Google Translate)

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the shareholder Q&A portion of the meeting saw current Square Enix president Takashi Kiryu pressed on a number of hard topics

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including whether the lack of new info on Dragon Quest XII contributed to recent losses, what their future sales targets looked like

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how they planned to protect their copyrighted works from being scraped for AI generation tools.

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Among these topics was the company’s current relationship with Sweet Baby Inc., to which a shareholder reportedly asked, “I’m personally happy about the shift from quantity to quality.

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I hope good titles will come out in the future. I’m concerned about the Canadian consulting company ‘Sweet Baby Inc.’

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