Right now Koei Tecmo introduced its monetary outcomes for the primary half of the fiscal 12 months, together with the interval between April 2023 and September 2023.
Gross sales for the entire firm had been 39,722 million yen, up 14.3% year-on-year. Working revenue was 13,855 million yen, down 24.4% year-on-year.
Trying on the leisure enterprise phase, which incorporates video games, gross sales had been 37,210 million yen, 4,427 million greater than in the identical interval of the earlier 12 months. Working revenue was 13,652 million yen, down 4,342 from final 12 months’s determine.
59% of gross sales had been in Japan, whereas 41% had been abroad. 9.4% in North America, 3.3% in Europe, and 28.3% in Asia.
Gross sales of packaged console video games had been down 9.8% year-on-year. Gross sales of full-game downloads had been down 5.7% year-on-year. Gross sales of DLC had been up 12.5% year-on-year.
Then again, gross sales of cell video games had been up 34% year-on-year. They had been a record-high for the platform within the second quarter.
This was as a consequence of older titles performing stably and two new ones beginning strongly, particularly Atelier Resleriana (which achieved 3 million downloads as of October 23) and Nobunaga’s Ambition: Shutsujin.
Destiny/Samurai Remnant shipped 250,000 copies as of September 30 (however we already know that the sport handed 300,000 as of October 6). Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening shipped 150,000 copies, and Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist of Salburg shipped 110,000 copies.
Trying on the future, Koei Tecmo holds its purpose in attempting to achieve an annual working revenue of 40 billion yen by fiscal 12 months 2024. By the identical timeframe, additionally they purpose to launch a brand new IP for consoles that can promote 5 million copies, on high of getting at the very least one a 12 months that can promote 2 million copies.
The corporate additionally goals to globalize its Atelier model, its historic simulation video games, and the Warriors IP, on high of coming into into growth-focused genres like location-based video games and battle royale.
On high of that, Koei Tecmo needs to reinforce its proprietary Katana Engine and increase enterprise in North America and Europe, on high of China.
All of those plans are literally not new, being a part of the corporate’s medium-term administration plan spanning fiscal years 2022-24. principally, Koei Tecmo is staying the course.
Apparently, the corporate judges Wild Hearts, Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the Finish & the Secret Key, Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty, and Destiny/Samurai Remnant to have “obtained world acclaim” with their metascores at 79, 85, 81, and 83 respectively.
As a small bonus element, one of many slides of the presentation mentions “Atelier Wrestleriana” because the tentative English identify for Atelier Resleriana. The latter transliteration was used all through the remainder of the presentation. I am undecided about you, however Wrestleriana actually sounds painful to me.
The sport is at present accessible for iOS and Android and can launch on Steam in January, however for now, the itemizing is geo-locked to Japan and cannot be visualized from Western nations except you’ve gotten a VPN.
If you would like to match with historic knowledge, you’ll be able to take a look at the outcomes for the earlier quarter introduced in July.
