Sega revealed its monetary results for the six months ended September 30, 2024, with gross sales throughout the broader firm down year-on yr, however games driving good H1 FY25 results for its leisure phase.
The numbers
- Web gross sales: ¥211.6 billion ($1.39 billion), down 4.5% year-on-year
- Leisure Contents internet gross sales (together with games): ¥141.7 billion ($931 million), 16.4% enhance year-on-year
- Games phase gross sales: ¥95.6 billion ($628 million), up 22% year-on-year
The highlights
Games gross sales have driven optimistic half-year results for Sega’s Leisure Contents phase. Gross sales throughout that vertical have been up 16.4% and games gross sales (which Sega calls its ‘Client’ enterprise) have been up 22% year-on-year.
This was because of DLC gross sales exceeding expectations, the report identified, and repeat gross sales being “robust,” with Unicorn Overlord in specific being highlighted. Sega additionally famous that “recording of Rovio gross sales contributed [to] gross sales enhance.”
It added that there was a optimistic affect from trade fee fluctuations, and that “value enchancment primarily in Europe exceeded expectations.”
Nevertheless, the Japanese firm mentioned that “gross sales of latest titles launched in Q1 went sluggish.”
Wanting on the numbers, new titles gross sales represented ¥5.6 billion ($36.8 million) for the primary half of the monetary yr, in comparison with ¥6.2 billion ($40.7 million) for a similar interval the yr earlier than. Repeat gross sales, then again, represented ¥22.1 billion ($145 million) for H1 FY25, versus solely ¥17.1 billion ($112 million) in FY24.
Total full sport gross sales for the interval represented ¥27.7 billion ($182 million), in comparison with ¥23.4 billion ($154 million) final yr.
Taking a look at its free-to-play portfolio, the agency merely mentioned that its titles “carried out as anticipated.” F2P gross sales represented ¥23.1 billion ($152 million), versus ¥26.9 billion ($177 million) in FY24.
Wanting forward, Sega expects its full yr to succeed in internet gross sales of ¥445 billion (simply shy of $3 billion), which might signify a 5% drop in comparison with FY24.
For its games phase particularly, revenue is predicted to succeed in ¥235 billion ($1.5 billion), which might roughly be a 5% enhance year-over-year. The discharge of Metaphor: ReFantazio, Sonic x Shadow Generations, and Soccer Supervisor 25 (which was delayed to March 2025) are anticipated to have an effect. The corporate additionally famous the upcoming launch of Sonic Rumble, and mentioned it anticipated “a rise in character licensing revenues from transmedia improvement centred on Sonic.”
As a part of its monetary report, Sega introduced that Amplitude Studios was regaining its independence, a transfer concluding the “structural reforms” which have been occuring at Sega Europe, resulting in the cancellation of Inventive Meeting’s Hyenas, the sale of Relic, and several other lots of layoffs throughout Sega owned-studios.
We talked to Rovio’s vp of technique Timo Rahkonene earlier this yr, one yr into the €706 million Sega acquisition.