The shocking change in strategy was simple math, according to the studio — the DS simply had the most units sold out of all gaming platforms, and Square Enix wanted the ambitious DQIX to have as big an audience as possible.
The Pixel Boxes have become her most familiar component: initially fabricated
in beech wood with a glass front screen, their softly
changing and pulsing colours at first distilled and abstracted complex visual patterns into simple shifting monochromes, and became a signature of a conceptual practice that avoided the
shock strategies of many of her contemporaries.