Konami Profits $51.9m For the Six Months Ending September 2010 - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 04 November 2010 / 3,244 Views
Konami, the Japanese publisher involved not only in video games but a variety of entertainment fields, has just announced its financial results for the first six months of its fiscal year. From April to September 2010, Konami saw revenues reach 115.8b Yen ($1.43b) up from 113.9b Yen ($1.41b) in the previous April to September period. Profit increased even more substantially for Konami, rising from 2.2b Yen in the six months to September 2009, about $27m, to 4.2b Yen in the six months to September 2010 which is nearly $52m.
In the digital entertainment segment of Konami, which includes video games and arcade machines, Konami revenue reached 53.1b Yen in the half year to September 2010, up from 51.4b in the six months to September 2009. That means Konami revenues increased to $656n from $635m in the video game segment.
Konami specifically cites the performance of Powerful Pro Baseball for PS3, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for PSP as the big revenue sources in its videogame segment for the quarter. Konami also provides a breakdown of the number of games it sold, by platform, genre, and world region. In the six months to September 2010, Konami sold 10.05m games worldwide, up from 5.89m in the six months to September 2009.
Konami saw its software sales volume increase in every world region in the first half of the current fiscal year compared to the first half of the previous year. Americas Konami software grew to 2.18m units from 1.32m units, European software grew from 1.72m to 3.42m units, Japanese software grew from 2.75m to 4.34m units, and Asian software grew from 0.10m to 0.12m units. Konami also explained how its performance changed by genre. Note that Metal Gear includes all games in the Metal Gear series which is why Konami counts it as a genre, and so Peace Walker shipments are not quite at 1.47m units (Konami had said it wanted Peace Walker shipments to reach 3m units anyway - which is quite unlikely now).
Apr-Sept 2009 Apr-Sept 2010
Soccer 1.25m 3.44m
Baseball 0.77m 0.74m
TV Animated 0.82m 0.67m
Music 0.30m 0.59m
Metal Gear 0.36m 1.47m
Other 2.38m 3.14m
Total 5.89m 10.05m
On a platform basis, Konami's results are as follows (taken from percentages here multiplied by total units sold).
Apr-Sept 2009 Apr-Sept 2010
Wii 1.36m 1.21m
PS3 0.88m 2.91m
X360 0.29m 0.80m
PS2 0.82m 0.60m
DS 1.24m 1.41m
PSP 1.30m 2.81m
PC 0.06m 0.30m
Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer is likely the reason for the substantial increase in HD software sales in 2010, as the game recently launched in Europe, and to a much bigger HD base than in 2009. PSP obviously increased from Peace Walker.
For the third quarter of the fiscal year, Konami has a strong slate of titles covering a broad range of gaming tastes. PES / WE will continue to sell well, and the releases coming in the quarter are Castlevania (PS3, X360), Dance Evolution (Kinect), Crossboard 7 (Kinect), Karaoke Revolution Glee (Wii), DDR (Wii, Move), Def Jam Rapstar (Wii, PS3, X360), Lucha Libre (Wii, PS3, X360), and Saw II (X360, PS3, PC) - most of which will eventually sell several hundred thousand or more units lifetime. Its a strong, and well diversified lineup, and so Konami should continue to profit even as companies like EA and THQ continue to struggle with consistently profiting.
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Looking at the figures, konami has a huge base on on console and that MGS 5 should be exclusive on the ps3
Last year PES 10 launched in FY Q3.
This year in FY Q2.
So much for that increase in sales >.>
Must mean a down Q3
The key is Million sellers to heve 1 title reaching 5 M is good & then build on it with titles that go over 1 M . 2 titles that can sell 5M or more is an extra (Metal gear & PES can still reach that)
THQ are struggeling they don't have a 5M seller anymore , Smackdown is down and UFC can not sell 4 M yet
EA can turn things around they have FIFA , Madden , NBA and all of them are sports favored by so many , they will also need to breath new life into Battlefield , Medal of honor , Need for speed & othe rbig names they have to revive it
I think they are 2nd to Nintendo this generation in terms of software sales , so they will get out soon
I'm glad to hear that there are still companies performing well financially despite the tough market conditions. Keep it up with the great games Konami!
