Sega 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, sales for the whole company were 95 billion yen, up 17.28% year-on-year. Operating income was 2.3 billion yen, which is definitely an improvement compared to Q1 of the previous fiscal year, in which Sega actually lost 500 million yen.
Looking at the Entertainment Contents business, which includes games, sales were 68.4 billion yen, up 1.03% year-on-year. Operating income was 4.9 billion yen, down 30.99% year-on-year.
Going even more granular, video game sales (including both console/pc and free-to-play) were 43.3 billion yen, down 2.91% year-on-year, while operating income was 1.3 billion yen, down a whopping 75% year-on-year.
Looking at the forecast for the full fiscal year, for the whole company, Sega expects 510 billion yen in sales, which would be up 4.62% year-on-year. Operating Income is expected to be 44.5 billion yen, down 5.52% year-on-year.
The forecast for video games (again, combining consoles/pc and free-to-play), Sega expects full-fiscal year sales to be 246 billion yen, up 11.87% year-on-year, and operating income to be 30 billion yen, up 56.25% year-on-year.
This is mostly because the company expects good results from Stranger than Heaven and Persona 4 Revival, both of which will launch in Q4. The company has already started promoting them, and the results in terms of engagement (wishlists and video views) are “favorable.”
The company intends to “continue efforts to increase anticipation ahead of their releases to maximize sales.” New games from Rovio are also expected.
If you’d like to compare with historical data, you can check out Sega’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, Sony, Bandai Namco,and Nintendo. You can expect more reports on this topic in the coming days and weeks.
