Sega-Sammy Profits $189m in the Nine Months Ending December 2009 - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 06 February 2010 / 2,550 Views
For the nine months ending December 2009, Sega-Sammy attained a net income of 16.945b Yen - $189.1 million. In the nine months ending December 2008, the company had a net income of -10.84b Yen, a loss of about $120 million. For the year ending March 2010, Sega expects Net Income to total 15.0b Yen, suggesting a loss is coming for Jan-March 2010. The increase in profits over the previous nine period came even though revenues actually decreased from 309 billion Yen in April to December 2008 to 285.3 billion Yen in April to December 2009.
Part of the reason for the reversal in fortunes is Sega-Sammy's hit Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games. The original Mario & Sonic game for Wii and DS which released in 2007 has topped 12m units worldwide. Not surprisingly, the sequel which released in fall of 2009 has shipments of 5.67m units between Wii and DS alread through December 2009. Shipments for Bayonetta on PS3 and X360 reached 1.1m units worldwide through December as well (meaning the game arrived at retailers before it went on sale). Football Manager 2010 for PSP and PC totalled 740,000 units in the west, while Phantasy Star Portable 2 shipments reached 540,000 units in Japan.
During the October-December 2009 quarter, Sega-Sammy had the following software volumes by platform.
Catalogue - 5.21m
Wii - 4.65m
DS - 3.13m
PS3 - 1.12m
PSP - 1.07m
PC - 0.73m
PS2 - 0.00m
Total - 16.73m
Going by the reported total software shipments for Nintendo and Sony machines over Oct-Dec 2009, during the quarter Sega games were 7% of all PSP games shipped (1.07m/15m), 6% of all Wii and DS games shipped (4.65m/80.5m Wii games and 3.13m/50.22m DS games), 2% of all PS3 games shipped (1.12m/47.6m) and perhaps 2% of all X360 games shipped (0.79m / ~45m?).
For the year ending March 2010, seen in the first column, Sega intends to ship the following number of games. The second column shows the total volume of software shipped in the previous fiscal year.
March 2010 FYE March 2009 FY
Wii - 7.30m 3.92m
Catalogue - 6.64m 11.92m
PS3 - 4.63m 3.13m
DS - 4.61m 3.17m
X360 - 3.46m 2.12m
PC - 1.77m 1.98m
PSP - 1.26m 1.42m
PS2 - 0.00m 1.78m
Total - 29.70m 29.47m
Compared to the previous fiscal year, Sega has seen dramatic collapses in PS2 and catalogue software volumes, but the company believes its increased emphasis on DS, Wii, PS3, and X360 will be able to offset those declines. For the year ending March 2010, Sega expects to see 40% of its software shipped for Wii and DS, up from 24% for the year ending March 2009. The portion of software for X360 has also increased, from 7.2% in the March 2009 year to 11.6% in the March 2010 year. Sega's reliance on Sony systems is expected to drop from 21.5% to 19.8% in the current fiscal year as PS3 rises are offset by PS2 and PSP drops.
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congrats to Sega...they truely are the silent underdog of this generation. Faced with a daunting situation they took many risks that other publishers refused to take and it is starting to pay off for them big time.
Mass market titles like Sonic & Mario are huge revenue generators and games like HotD and Bayonetta are starting to revive respect for Sega as a "gamers" publisher. I can see them going from success to success for the foreseeable future.
Time to start development for Shenmue 3.
go SEGA,
valkyria chronicles and football manager
i bow to them
PC sales are good considering SEGA only released like 2 PC games in the last year.
"not bad PC sales I guess it's mainly Total war"
Yep, and Football Manager 2010. Not sure if the new Aliens vs Predator is included, but that seems to be attracting a shitload of pre-orders on Amazon and Steam.
@ Stefan.De.Machtige add [/sarcasm] because people are really that crazy..
$189 million in profits....that's excellent!
M&S at the Olympic Winter Games will continue to give them profit throughout the year, but I don't really know what else they have in store for 2010.
not bad PC sales I guess it's mainly Total war
good
but im still waiting for a good sonic game
i hope that sonic 4 lives up to the hype
Yeah, I'm pretty sure catalogue is downloadable sales of old Sega games for the Genesis and Master Systems. The Genesis Sonic games do pretty well on Virtual Console, PSN and XBLA.
A step in the right direction....
Nintendo once again destroying the industry.
Iwata!! When will the madness end!?
The PS2 down to 0 >> other consoles up. The last generation is dead. The PSP is doing rather meh. Come on PSP.
What is "Catalogue"? Virtual Console sales of Mega Drive Sonic games?
Hm... if it weren't for Nintendo's machines, Sega'd be in a lot of trouble. Who'd have thunk it back in the 90's. :-P
YAY! SEGA is getting back up there!
Congrats! I still think Valkyria Chronicles is their Greatest achievement this gen.
