What do you think about the current Web 3.0 field, especially the metaverse?
Asuka Shinoda (hereinafter, Shinoda): We believe that the metaverse's immersive nature makes it an effective platform for simulating an investment experience. Of course, it is different in many ways from actual investment, but we think that by playing a game that incorporates some of its mechanisms in the metaverse space, it will be possible to make investment feel more familiar.
The platform we used this time, Fortnite, is a system in which you choose your favorite game from a large number of games and play it, so the hurdle to playing is low, and it is a tool that makes it easy for people to experience investing while having fun in the world of the game.
In the first place, investment is often seen as "difficult to understand" or "a little scary," but by playing games in the metaverse space, you can experience investing intuitively, so I think it is quite compatible as a learning approach.
With Fortnite being selected as an event in the "Olympic Esports Series 2023," we are considering utilizing the metaverse in various ways, which is expected to continue to develop further in the future. In addition, after the game was released, we received a lot of feedback on social media, and we feel the potential of the metaverse.