During those six months, Sega released 10 million games, up from 14 million six months ago. New releases like Soulhacker 2 and Two Point Campus, as well as sales of well-known franchises like Sonic, Total War, Persona, and Like a Dragon (yes, “Yakuza” is over) ). Whether we’re talking about the new version or the old game, Sega admits the results were slightly below expectations. In the free-to-play department, Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage! However, keep playing locomotives in front of Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis.
Sales of Sega games on consoles, mobile and PC have generated an operating profit of 72 million euros for six months. This is significantly lower than the same period last year (125 million euros), but Sega expects this profit to reach 265 million euros by March 2023, which would be better than last year’s 230 million euros.
To turn things around, Sonic Frontier, Football Manager 23, Company of Heroes 3, Endless Dungeon, and Dragon: Ishin will be released in the second half of the fiscal year, not to mention ports of Persona 3, Persona 4 and Persona 5. So many games mean Sega aims to release 34.2 million games for the year (up from 27.2 million a year ago).
Sega Sami Results
period | turnover | operating profit | net income |
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April 2021 – September 2021 | 917.5 million euros | 99.7 million euros | 81.6 million euros |
April 2022 – September 2022 | 1 billion euros | 65.1 million euros | 65.3 million euros |
The Essentials of a Large Franchise
Meanwhile, Sega released its annual report, providing an update on the evolution of certain franchise sales. These numbers are a bit out of date as they stop on March 31, 2022, but we could see for example the Shin Megami Tensei series take advantage of the release of Shin Megami Tensei V to go from 17.7 million to 19 million game sales worldwide.
As a result, SMT regained its lead over the Persona franchise, winning just 500,000 sales from one year to the next for a total of 15.5 million games sold due to a lack of major news. Note, however, that the Shin Megami Tensei series is a bit of a cheat, as its numbers include an installation of the mobile game Shin Megami Tensei Liberation Dx2.
The extravagant figure of the Sonic franchise (1.5 billion) has to be taken seriously, as it includes countless downloads of free games. More specific stats for the Yakuza/Like a Dragon saga: The saga has sold 19.8 million copies as of March 31, and no doubt the saga has silently celebrated 20 million copies this year. For their part, Football Manager and Total War delighted PC gamers with sales of 25 million and 40.4 million copies, respectively.