Konami reports growing profit – Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban sales! for Switch reached 3 million

Financial performance Konami continue to remain at a consistently high level. Over the past fiscal year, the company generated 272.56 billion yen in revenue ($ 2.48 billion) on 36.550 billion yen ($ 333 million) in operating profit. The latter grew by $ 18%

Most of Konami’s revenue comes from mobile games, which are popular internationally eFootball PES 2023 and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links… They perform well in Japan Professional Baseball Spirits, Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game and Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush duel

On consoles, Konami released only eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2023 (only in Asia and Japan), update eFootball PES 2023 Season Update for fans Pro Evolution Soccer and Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa Mo Teiban! (Japan). The latter became a big hit on Nintendo Switch and set a new sales record for Konami’s games throughout its history in Japan.

It was announced today that Konami has already sold in its home market more than 3,000,000 copies Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa Mo Teiban! (+500 thousand for the period from February to May)… The game is still in the Japanese charts, in parallel with which the developers are preparing major updates for it.

Against the backdrop of the success of Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa Mo Teiban! Konami is stepping up support for the Nintendo Switch. So, a surprise to many was the decision of the company to make a new part of the series of baseball simulators popular in Japan. Professional Baseball Spirits exclusive hybrid platform. Prior to that, the franchise was presented exclusively on consoles for many years. Playstation

Konami will also release this summer Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel: Saikyou Battle Royale !! on Nintendo Switch, and in 2023 on the hybrid platform will premiere a hardcore roguelike GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon

The company is also going to release a shareware game this year. Super bomberman r online on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

Konami previously announced its decision to skip the exhibition. E3 2023 and the development of several “key projects”. One of them is rumored to be the restart of Silent Hill.

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