Konami, which has recently come to the fore with the Silent Hill leak, this time comes to our agenda with its financial data. According to the announced data, Konami is experiencing the most profitable year in the company’s history.
Konami has announced that its last fiscal year (that is, from April 2021 to March 2022) was the most profitable in the company’s history. The Japanese developer and publisher appears to have generated operating profit of 74.4 billion yen, or roughly $577 million in revenue. Its net profit is 54.8 billion yen, or approximately US$425 million.
There have been some rumors circulating among the players lately. One of them was that Konami is no longer making games and is completely focused on “pachinko”. (Pachinko is the Japanese equivalent of the slot machine in the West) The financial figures announced show that this is not the case.
Konami earns the most from video games
If there is one thing that is true, it is that Konami’s most successful businesses are not on the West side. An example of this is the Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, which has recently achieved success for the company. The F2P game, which was released on Steam in January, has managed to collect more than 30 million players so far and it seems that it will continue to collect. The company divides its business into two categories, digital entertainment and entertainment.
There are video games under the name of digital entertainment and pachinko machines under the name of entertainment. Konami announced that this year, it earned 215 billion yen of its 299.5 billion yen revenue from digital entertainment and 19.5 billion yen from the entertainment industry. This means that Konami gets 72% of its revenue from video games.