Bandai Namco announced its financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year, related to the period between April and June 2026.
According to the official documents provided by the company, total net sales were 328,494 million yen (up 9.3% year-on-year), while operating profit was 69,204 million yen (up 33.3% year-on-year).
Unfortunately, things aren’t doing as well for the Digital Business, which focuses on video games. Sales were 90,901 million yen (down 15.7% year-on-year), while segment profit was 15,011 million yen (down 30.8% year-on-year).
Mobile games belonging to flagship franchises like Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Gundam performed well, but console games drove the decline simply because the quarter did not have major releases, which were instead included in Q1 of the previous year.
Basically, this year there was no Elden Ring Nightreign, which caused the drop.
The company mentioned (as it does every quarter) that it’ll “continue to prioritize quality in the development of titles that meet the expectations of their fans, and will work to build a balanced and optimal game portfolio.”
Of course, with titles like Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve coming out in Q3, there’s plenty of room for improvement going forward.
That being said, Bandai Namco revised upward its forecast for the full company for the first half of the fiscal year from 610 million yen to 690 million yen in sales and from 84 million yen to 124 million yen in operating profit.
This is due to the strong results recorded in the first quarter, driven by the Toys and Hobby Business.
On the other hand, the projection for the full year remains unchanged, at 1,350,000 million yen in sales (essentially flat) and 185,000 million yen in profit (down 2.4% year-on-year).
If you’d like to compare with historical data, you can check out Bandai Namco’s financial results from the previous quarter, announced in May.
Other gaming companies have already announced their financial results this quarter, including Koei Tecmo, Capcom, Microsoft, Konami, and Sony. You can expect plenty more reports on this topic in the coming days and weeks.
