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Namco-Bandai Profits in Q4 2011, Raises Fiscal Year Projections - News

by VGChartz Staff , posted on 10 February 2012 / 5,427 Views

Namco-Bandai's results for the December 2011 quarter have arrived and they are quite good. The company had revenue of 323.4b Yen for the quarter ($4.25b) with a sizable 16.30b Yen profit ($214m). In the prior December quarter, Namco-Bandai earned 288.0b Yen ($3.78b) with 3.67b Yen in profit ($48.2m), so the increase in profit was over four fold on a 12% increase in revenue - a pretty impressive upward swing in profit margins as the company continues to restructure from losses in a previous fiscal year.

Previously the company expected full year revenue of 420b Yen ($5.51b) with a profit of 15b Yen ($197m) - their new forecast calls for 440b Yen ($5.78b) in revenue with 18.5b Yen in profit ($243m). If the new forecast is met, revenue would be up 12% on the March 2011 year, with profit up an amazing 900% (not a typo).

From April to December 2011, Namco-Bandai has shipped 13.76m games, just about flat from the 13.80m shipped in that period of 2010. The full year is projected to reach 23.00m games shipped, compared to 20.905m in the March 2011 year.

Namco-Bandai lists the following titles as its main game titles through December 2011:

- Tales of Xillia (PS3) - 760,000

- Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. (PS3) - 550,000

- Ben 10 Racing (Multi) - 440,000

- AKB/48 2 (PSP) - 410,000

- One Piece Gigant Battle 2 (DS) - 350,000

I would also offer, that outside these hits the company had several minor hits - Taiko, Family Fishing, Go Vacation, not to mention several long-selling DS and PSP games all performed rather well for Namco-Bandai in Japan during October-December 2011.

From April to December 2011, the company shipped 3.928m PS3 games, 2.804m PSP games, 2.151m DS games, 1.704m Wii games, 1.539m X360 games, 1.271m 3DS games, and 363,000 games for other platforms (presumably PS2, PC and Vita).

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16 Comments
TheSource (on 10 February 2012)

Not really, I'm sure that's the lifetime shipment for Japan - it will get to 700,000 since its still selling around 1-2,000 per week and then they'll lower the price to clear out the remaining units in inventory. Some games just get one big shipment (heh can you imagine if COD just got one 28m shipment - that'd be awesome)

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Carl TheSource (on 10 February 2012)

Come on, Source. 110k units in inventory at 1-2k per Week? We're talking possible 2 Years worth of units. That's too much surely.

I wanna see a 28m shipment.

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Zim TheSource (on 10 February 2012)

I posted this in reply to Carl's other post and sure you already know it TheSource but Famitsu had Xillia at 632k through to December 25th. So the 650k at Vgchartz through January appears to be very accurate and similar to other trackers. No problem with it at all.

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Carl TheSource (on 10 February 2012)

In which case, they went way overboard with Xillia shipments. Thumbed you up.

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Boutros TheSource (on 10 February 2012)

Famitsu is hardly the most accurate tracker out there though.

And Tales of Xillia had an initial shipment of 500k and then 100k more the day after release. It was then reported that the game had 740k copies shipped by Namco themselves a couple of months after so that 760k suggests that they've gotten rid of most of the 740k stock. Why would they ship an additional 20k then? I don't know if it's undertracked but something is going on here.

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Zim TheSource (on 12 February 2012)

You mean Famitsu who you used to try and disprove this sites Monster Hunter 3g numbers Boutros? Seems that perhaps you have some bias there.

Famitsu is accurate enough that if it and Vgchartz are at almost identical numbers then you can guarantee the game isn't actually 100k odd undertracked.

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Boutros TheSource (on 12 February 2012)

What? You're so mad XD And besides I like how you totally ignored that I thought it was Media Create. Go read the wall again. I even mentionned that "there's no reason to trust Famitsu more than VGC or MC.". You're a very angry person.

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dark_gh0st_b0y (on 10 February 2012)

good for Namco, a great company although they did mistakes, managed to kill Pac-Man, and they are doing their best to kill SoulCalibur and maybe DragonBall games

Go Vacation is great

love the Tales, although the marketing for Abyss in Europe is a horror, almost impossible to be found for some reason

woth mentioning that Bandai's Digimon has almost been revived, the two Digimon MMO's are awesome, millions of players i read somewhere and the new one got 3 awards on mmosite awards 2011, and the new Digimon game for Psp seems more than promising

i hope they can revive Pac-Man with a new adventure rather than re-releases

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DemoniOtaku dark_gh0st_b0y (on 10 February 2012)

Soul Calibur is Not Dead... In japan may be, but on the rest of the world is still alive... SCV is a great game and sold well this week on PS3 and 360... It sould keep doing well.. And Pac-man is more a Icon than a strong seller franchise..

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dark_gh0st_b0y dark_gh0st_b0y (on 11 February 2012)

didn't say SC is dead, but if they keep on like this...

Pac-Man is just classic and will always be, but they could contiue the success of Pac-Man world for PS1, but they ruined it with Pac-Man World 2 and 3 even more, and now Pac-Man only get classic re-releases and party games : (

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Nem (on 10 February 2012)

I would've like to have seen what they though about the sales of the Tales series across the other titles, regions and platforms.

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Carl (on 10 February 2012)

We have Xillia at 650k... Waaaaaay undertracked. Western release = Easy Million seller

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Zim Carl (on 10 February 2012)

Famitsu's 2011 sales (which go until the 25th of December) have Xillia at 632k. So I would say 650k is very accurate for now.

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DemoniOtaku Carl (on 10 February 2012)

May be NamCoBandai is just unveilling Shipping numbers?... If Famitsu's numbers are true there 100k Xillias out there waiting for a owner... Is a waste that it doesn´t include English subs at least... :/

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