Konami Profits $73m in Q4 2011, Raises Fiscal Year Forecast - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 02 February 2012 / 5,854 Views
Konami's financial data for the nine months to December 2011 has arrived. After profiting 11.5b Yen ($151.1m) in the first six months of the fiscal year on 123.1b Yen ($1.617b) in revenue, Konami today revealed that revenue grew to 194.522b Yen ($2.556b) for the first nine months of the year, while profit climbed to 17.046b Yen ($224m). These figures indicate that revenue in the December quarter was about $940m, and profit in the December quarter was almost $73m.
For the full year to March 2012, Konami had previously expected revenue of 258b Yen ($3.39b) with a profit of 18.5b Yen ($243m). Konami now expects revenue to reach 265b Yen ($3.48b) with profit forecast to reach 22.0b Yen ($289m). The projected profit increase is impressive, its almost 20% ahead of the prior forecast. Through nine months, Konami's profit was already up 77% on the prior fiscal year.
Konami's video game business, what it calls the digital business, had revenue of 99.5b Yen ($1.31b) for the nine months to December 2011, up from 58.1b Yen ($763m) through six months. Compared to the first nine months of the previous fiscal year, video game revenue grew 1.6b Yen ($21m). It is important to note though that physical video game revenue fell by over $225m, while SNS games grew to be a 26.1b ($348m) market for Konami, up from 9.7b ($127m) in the same time frame last year. Card games also increased, offsetting the traditional video game market revenue loss.
Konami's SNS growth is, frankly, amazing - the company lists 2.5m registered users in December 2010 that play its games, and as of December 2011 the number had grown to 15m registered users. Several individual games have over 1m users according to the company. Dragon Collection, a Konami game released in July 2011 is currently the top game on Japan's GREE service.
Through nine months, Konami shipped 14.21m games, compared to 18.49m in the comparable nine month period of 2010. The company broke down its game shipments by genre like so:
Apr-Dec 2010 Apr-Dec 2011
Soccer 6.56m 5.73m
Baseball 0.92m 1.16m
Animated 1.14m 0.48m
Music 1.86m 1.14m
Metal Gear 1.68m 1.21m
Other 6.33m 4.49m
Total 18.49m 14.21m
Japan bought 6.53m Konami games in April-December 2010, compared to 5.33m in the same period 2011. Americas game sales declined from 5.05m to 3.76m, European game sales fell to 4.89m from 6.60m, and Asian figures dropped to 0.23m from 0.31m.
The company also provided a game shipment split by platform:
Apr - Dec 10' Apr-Dec 11'
PS3 5.18m 4.69m
PSP 3.88m 2.98m
Wii 2.96m 1.70m
DS 2.77m 1.70m
X360 2.22m 1.42m
PS2 1.30m 0.71m
PC 0.37m 0.28m
3DS n/a 0.57m
Total 18.49m 14.21m
All platforms declined for Konami software (except for 3DS and SNS) in 2011 - not a good result despite the overall performance of the company.
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For some reason listing Metal Gear as its own genre made me laugh. That's just how popular it is. If only Castlevania got some loving.
well profits are the main thing,i will be buying the new silent hill whenever it is coming
What is SNS ?
Konami makes sns card games that although I haven't played them tend to have a anime design and probably play along the lines of other popular anime card games that have been popular in the west, Btw sns stands for social network service.
With MGS3D and the HD collection out this year, I expect good things for the "Metal Gear" genre.
the only goo game of konami is MGS.. konami really sucks this gen.
Where did that 0.57 shipped for 3ds came from?
Oh PES. right
Sports games and Frogger looks like - http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=&publisher=900&console=3DS&genre=&minSales=0&results=50
