Konami hat gerade sein profitabelstes Jahr aller Zeiten verzeichnet

Konami Holdings Corporation (bald Konami Group Corporation, by the way) hat in seinen Finanzergebnissen für das Geschäftsjahr 2022 das profitabelste Jahr aller Zeiten verzeichnet. Its operating income has risen from 36.6 billion yen in FY2021 to 74.4 Milliarden Yen, marking a 103.6% Zunahme. The overall profit increase after taxes yielded a 69.9% increase YoY.

When split into its core business sectors, Konami recorded its biggest profit increase within the ‘Gaming & Systems’ sector, Aufzeichnung 25.6 billion yen in revenue, oben 54% aus dem Vorjahr. ‘Digital Entertainment’ remains the biggest revenue sponge for the company, bringing in an impressive 215 billion yen for the year, Eine Zunahme von 5.3%.

Konami attributes Yu-Gi-Oh! Meisterduell as a strong driver for its ‘Digital Entertainment’ performance, with the game exceeding 30 million downloads as of April 2022. Die Yu-Gi-Oh! Sammelkartenspiel is also performing well and “continues to gain global support”.

Looking ahead to FY2023, Konami is forecasting continued growth across all of its business sectors, with a predicted increase of 13.1% in its ‘Gaming & Systems’ sector a key point of interest. The company will be launching the highly anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Die Cowabunga-Sammlung noch in diesem Jahr, but it’s possible the company may have other surprises up its sleeve.

In its native Japan, Konami’s popular Switch board game Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! passed 3.5 million units sold, easily surpassing the global sales of Metroid-Schrecken, und bietet hardwarebeschleunigte Dekodierung von 10-Bit-AV1 erreicht 2.74 million units sold.

What do you make of Konami’s performance? Do you think it has some surprises lined up for the coming months? Lass uns wissen!