Speaking to the online financial publication Nikkei Business Online, Square Enix and Taito CEO Yoichi Wada has suggested that his company plans to enter the hardware market - in one shape or another.

In the interview, which has subsequently been translated by US-based Gamespot, Wada-san commented: "This is one of the reasons Square Enix will collaborate with Taito, a company that produces physical hardware..In our talks with Taito, ideas for an actual physical product have come up. In any case, we will be releasing some 'thing.' It's interesting in that it's not the sort of thing you expect from Square Enix."

With Taito focusing in the past on arcade machines, it would seem that likely that Square-Enix would enter into that area of hardware - the idea that they'd 'do a Microsoft' and enter the home console market is pretty much unthinkable thanks to the vast costs involved.

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