Konami starts fiscal year in sharp rise - News - ended June

Konami unveiled its results for its first fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2021. Without changing a lot to its habits, the publisher records strong annual growth, not just because health conditions no longer lead its secondary activities.

Unlike other publishers, last year's confinement had not brought only good news to Konami, including the three secondary trades (the Arcade, Casinos and the gyms) had lost money because of sanitary measures. A year later, these three segments found the balance, but it is the video game that records the most important annual growth with a turnover up 16% and an operational profit up 25%. .

Results of Konami

Period | Turnover | Operational Profit | Net profit --- | --- | --- | --- April 2020 - June 2020 | 407.8 million euros | 52.4 million euros | 32.3 million euros April 2021 - June 2021 | 526.5 million euros | 149.5 million euros | 105.6 million euros

As always, the mobile games that Professional Baseball Spirits ACE and EFootball PES 2021 (400 million downloads for the latter) are the first to receive the congratulations of the direction, even if it is necessary Not forgetting the game of board MomoTaro DENTSU ** which recently entered the story of Konami by passing the 3 million sales on Switch.

A switch that now monopolizes all the attentions of the publisher, as evidenced by his Japanese programming ( eBaseball Professional Baseball Spirits 2021 Grand Slam 2021 in July, Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel Saikyo Battle Royale In August, Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 4th Heart in October and Power Pro Kun Pocket R in winter).

Closer to us, Konami will also launch the Free-to-Play Multiplatform Efootball this fall with the ambition to develop this successor of PES over the years according to a very current economic model, rather than bet on the traditional Edition to buy each year.