Konami profits double in the first half

Konami unveiled its results for its first fiscal semester closed on September 30, 2021. And once again the numbers displayed are impressive with regard to the boundaries of the catalog.

Even the industrial accident named Efootball 2022 does not prevent Konami from displaying excellent results halfway from the fiscal year with a turnover up 20% and a net profit multiplied by of them. A performance that comes first from the mobile with YU-GI-OH Duel Links and Efootball PES 2021, which exceeded the 450 million downloads. In Japan, Professional Baseball Spirits Ace remains the most efficient mobile game of the publisher.

In the archipelago, Konami was also able to count on the outings of Ebaseball Professional Baseball Spirits 2021 Grand Slam and Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel Saikyo Battle Royal on SWITCH while enjoying MomoTaro Dentestsu that continues to sell. At the same time, Castlevania Grimoire of Souls offered a resurrection as part of the Apple Arcade subscription, while nostalgics could be tempted by Castlevania Advance Collection. Finally, we learn that the Free-To-Play Super Bomberman Online R has exceeded 3 million downloads.

Results of Konami

Period | Turnover | Operational Profit | Net profit

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April 2020 - September 2020 | 880 million euros | 162.3 million euros | 104.6 million euros April 2021 - September 2021 | 1 billion euros | 295.5 million euros | 209.3 million euros

The main majority of Konami s profits come from the video game (271 million euros) but the accumulation of its other three activities (gaming rooms, casinos, sports) is back in the green after the difficulties of the confinement and represents everything from Even a gain of 30 million euros. Losses related to COVID-19 are also only 5.3 million euros in the semester (compared with 35 million euros last year), although Konami prefers to avoid communicating its annual goal because of of this factor.