The Pokemon Company Had a Record Financial Year - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 30 May 2022 / 4,282 Views
Japanese government's official gazette via Gamebiz.jp has posted the financial earnings for The Pokemon Company, despite the company being private.
Revenue for The Pokemon Company increased 70.4 percent to 204 billion yen ($1.6 billion) for the fiscal year ending February 28, 2022. Operating profit jumped 115 percent to 59 billion yen ($460 million) and net profit increased 123 percent to 41 billion yen ($320 million).
Kantan Games CEO and analyst Dr. Serkan Toto reports the latest year marks "another record financial year."
The Pokemon Company in the last fiscal year released New Pokémon Snap in April 2021, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl in November 2021, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus in January 2022.
New Pokémon Snap has sold 2.4 million units as of March 31, 2022, while Pokémon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl has sold 14.65 million units, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus has sold 12.64 million units. The Pokémon franchise has sold 409.75 million units worldwide.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Yup...
They make record numbers with the most overrated, lazy and terríble pkm games. The quality go to shit and money keeps coming non stop.
Worse part, many will defend these games, talk things like "it's fun..." and ignore that Gamefreak/Nintendo are delivering unacceptable product that looks like +15 years old games priced at $60 ( pkm games used to be $40)
Also, they keep doing stupid things like, 1 save slot! It used to be a technical limitations, but 1 f@#$# save slot in 2020!!! Also, 2 versions of the same game, just so collectors will drop $120!! F@$$# these guys at Nintendo/Gamefreak, they need to deliver better product to fans!
Before online trading, the two versions could have been considered nefarious. At this point, if someone buys both versions, they're just kinda dumb. Can't blame a company for selling something people willingly buy though.
And the games do have multiple save files on switch. Different profiles. Even if it's accidental, everyone has access to 8 save files.
I'm sure that with all that money they'll release Scarlet/Violet with the pokedex whole this time, right?
Right?
Plot twist
There is no Pokédex in the next games
Lol, I hear ya. and I don't know why the heck you got those downvotes for a sincere and honest comment. Go figure...
Most people don't care about that.
Not really an excuse to not add it.
That is the reason why these games still sell so much. The "excuse" is that it's simply to many Pokémon to model and animate for their tight schedule. They would need to delay the game, which wouldn't have lead to any significant payoff. Hence why Gamefreak won't make any game with the entire Pokédex ever again.
Even IF that were true
Between SW/SH, BD/SP and legends arceus, most of the models and animations should have already been made into HD. So its even less of an excuse for scarlet and violet not to have them all in because at least 70% of the dex work has already been done.
(Off topic) I wonder if anyone irl has daughters called Scarlett and Violet, saw the new Pokémon games and went "YES!"
Holy cow, it's a money making machine!
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