Today Konami announced its financial results for the first half of the fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April and September 2024.
According to the financial documents, total revenue for the whole company was 184,084 million yen (up 19.7% year-on-year), business profit was 50,217 million yen
(up 41.8% year-on-year)
These metrics (including all profit metrics) continue to be record-high for the company.
Revenue for the digital entertainment business, which includes games and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, was 131,650 million yen (up 28.9% year-on-year) and business profit was 46,655 million yen ( up 50.3% year-on-year).
We learn that eFootball is “still going strong” also thanks to a startup campaign to celebrate the new season. The announcement of eBaseball: MLB Pro Spirit featuring Shohei Ohtani has been met with “an overwhelming response.”
Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel surpassed 70 million downloads.
We also hear that the company plans to continue releasing more “completely new” Silent Hill games following the release of Silent Hill 2, and we get the tease of a new Silent Hill Program livestream coming at some point in the future. Konami intends to provide a “variety of information” then.
Interestingly, following the success of a series of initiatives, Konami vows to “work on activities to disseminate the appeal of esports with the aim of expanding the esports fan base even more.”
Unfortunately, Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You – Emotional, which has been announced for Nintendo Switch in August and is coming in 2025, remains listed only for Japan in the documentation. That is honestly a big shame.
If you’d like to compare with historical results, you can read about the previous quarter, presented in August.
Other companies have also already announced their financials this quarter, including Koei Tecmo, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Microsoft.
