In October 2001, Sony purchased a 18.6% stake in Square to help alleviate its now second year losses. Its losses began to grow following the box-office failure of their first major film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. On February 8, 2001, Square began experiencing its first quarterly loss since going public and quickly enacted a company restructure. One of these was Final Fantasy VII, which would go on to be the second best-selling game on the system and hailed as one of the greatest video games of all time. In the 90s, Square was one of the many developers who made games exclusively for Sony's PlayStation. The game sold 400,000 copies, firmly establishing it as Square's flagship series.Д¬arried by the success of the Final Fantasy series, Square developed several more world-famous RPGs, namely Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Xenogears, Parasite Eve, and Kingdom Hearts. A year later the company relocated to Ueno, Tokyo and, inspired by the success of Dragon Quest, the team began development on their own RPG, which would go on to become Final Fantasy. By September 1986, the division was spun off to become an independent company under the name Square Co., Ltd. Square was established 11 years after Enix, on October 1983, by Masafumi Miyamoto to serve as a computer game division of Den-Yu-Sha, his father's power line construction company. In November 1999, Enix was listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange's 1st section, being classified as a 'large company'. In the 90s, Enix began entering into the manga business, publishing several issues for the Monthly ShЕЌnen Gangan magazine. In 1989, Enix merged with its parent company Eidansha Boshu, which then changed its name to Enix Corporation, thus fully unifying all of its subsidiaries. The first game sold 1.5 million copies in Japan, with subsequent sequels being massive hits and establishing a strong fanbase throughout the country. One of these was the first Dragon Quest, which was created by Horii and directed by Nakamura. After the success of Door Door, Enix's next releases would come from outsourced developers paid through royalties. The two winners were Love Match Tennis by Yuji Horii and Door Door by Koichi Nakamura the latter would go on to be one of Enix's first published titles for Nintendo's Famicom. ДЇollowing a failed attempt to expand the real estate business nationwide, Enix decided to enter the gaming market by holding a game programming contest, where young programmers submitted in their original games. A year later it would change its name to Eidansha Systems and then to Enix Corporation the following year. On February 5, 1980, the company created a subsidiary, named Eidansya Fudousan, to partake in real estate trading and brokerage.

Enix was founded on Septemby former architect Yasuhiro Fukushima, originally under the name Eidansha Boshu Service Center, as a publisher of tabloids that advertised real estate.

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