Today, Marvelous Entertainment announced its financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year, between April and June 2025.
According to the documents provided by the company, net sales significantly increased year-on-year. They were at 8,739 million yen compared to 5,806 million yen in the same period of the past fiscal year.
Operating profit was a rather meager 243 million yen, but still up year-on-year from 65 million yen.
Looking at the Digital Contents Business, which includes video games, net sales were 5,210 million yen, signficantly up year-on-year from 3,201 million yen.
The gaming segment actually recorded a loss of 349 million yen, against a 46 million yen loss in the previous fiscal year.
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma was received positively and initial sales were favorable, but development costs were high, which hindered profit.
Looking at the company’s prediction for the rest of the fiscal year, in the second quarter, Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma will enter its recoupment period, but Marvelous will record development costs for Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar and Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion.
That being said, Marvelous expects to increase both sales and profits for the full fiscal year to 35,000 million yen and 2,000 million yen, respectively (compared to 27,963 million yen and 1,817 in the past fiscal year).
Due to the high development costs for the games mentioned above, full-fledged profit contributions are expected in the second half of the fiscal year, resulting in a “company-wide profit plan that is heavily back-end loaded.”
If you’d like to compare these results with historical data, you can read our report about the previous fiscal year, based on data released in May.
Other gaming companies have also already announced their financial results this quarter, including Koei Tecmo, Ubisoft, Krafton, Electronic Arts, Capcom, Microsoft and Konami.
