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KONAMI FY2015 Financial Reports: Net revenues increased thanks to Packinko

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bigol

Member
KONAMI just released their FY 2015 financial reports


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They reported almost 154% net revenues increase from pachinko machines, while digital entertainment revenues (Pc, videogames and mobile games) slightly decreased.

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This is what they say about Pc and videogames titles

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Besides

Konami Group plans to allocate appropriate managerial resources not only to the existing Digital Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Gaming & Systems, and Pachislot & Pachinko Machines but also to new business fields where growth is anticipated in the medium to long-term.
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So, pachinko are becoming increasingly important while Pc and videogames titles will continue to be released but will be fewer than before and chosen according to "selection and concentration"
 
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Morfeo

The Chuck Norris of Peace
This is so depressing :( I mean I am glad that they earn money, but why cant video games be the driver of this? We need more 2D Castlevania-games on the 3DS and a Dark Souls-inspired Castlevania on the consoles!
 
T

TI82

Banned
Sadly proving Ian from CUPodcast wrong.

MGSV will be the last game I ever buy from them. Goodbye Konami, I hardly knew ye.
 
S

Squire

Banned
I'm REALLY curious to see what the budget for the next MGS is like. Far more than I want to know who will make it. The franchise will continue, but they're done pumping money into the way they lam loses Kojima/KJP to.

I'd love to know how much it cost them to make MGSV + FOX engine. Especially in comparison to another AAA game with a lengthy dev cycle like the last Dragon Age or Halo 4. Whatever it is, Konami seems to think it's not worth it. They probably expect MGSV sales to confirm their thinking and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they're not wrong, all said and done.

They're getting out of the AAA game. I can't really blame them.
 
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Meia

Member
Yep, makes total and complete sense to burn down your division that gives you 44% of your earnings to build up a division that gives you 6%. Total and complete sense.
 
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Graphics Horse

Member
Meia said:
Yep, makes total and complete sense to burn down your division that gives you 44% of your earnings to build up a division that gives you 6%. Total and complete sense.
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They aren't burning down anything other than their console game side which is mostly P.E.S.
Incidentally their Financial Presentations materials no longer has the platform/genre/regional breakdowns they used to provide. Even their console game reporting has been cut back now :(
 
Agent_4Seven

Agent_4Seven

Tears of Nintendo
I wonder, what else Konami can possibly port or release on PC (XONE, PS4)? I mean, MGS is pretty much dead after release of TPP (this will be sure as hell the last MG and MGS game I will buy), ZOTE and Silent Hill is also dead (if anyone could revive Silent Hill it's Kojima with Del Toro, but Silent Hills got canceled, Del Toro not involved in it's development anymore and Kojima will leave Konami after TPP's release this september). They got only PES now (about which I don't care) and nothing else if of course new LOS game wont be announced at this year's E3 or at TGS, but after LOS 2 and the news regarding it's development I doubt that it will be good game.
 
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Asd202

Member
Meia said:
Yep, makes total and complete sense to burn down your division that gives you 44% of your earnings to build up a division that gives you 6%. Total and complete sense.
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Some speculate that they expect Japan will lift the ban on gambling and want to tap into that market hard.
 
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Sakujou

Banned
pachinko-halls are only operated by shady yakuza-guys in japan.

its unbelievable that pachinko is a "market" its pretty much the same as being a alcohol-addiction if you need to play obsessively pachinko...

sad to see that they want to focus on that.

i want more castlevanias, zoe, or new IPs.

instead lesser but more focused games... does that mean, they want to bring out one mgs/main IP every 4 years?


edit:

do not forget that konami is bringing out a lot of arcade games in japan and asia. they earn a huge amount of money.

as an example... when they released IIDX 22 SPADA in korea, people were standing in line for around 1 hour to play one round of beatmania.

i was baffled about that.

and every week(or something like that), when they update their arcades(jubeat and so on) people go batshit to play them in the arcades.
 
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bigol

Member
Meia said:
Yep, makes total and complete sense to burn down your division that gives you 44% of your earnings to build up a division that gives you 6%. Total and complete sense.
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Digital Entertainment is not just Pc and videogames but it's increasingly becoming mobile games. Look at the digital entertainments highlights.

Of course they don't intend to burn down that division but home console games will be fewer and more focused. This is what they said.
 
Neff

Neff

Member
Morfeo said:
This is so depressing :( I mean I am glad that they earn money, but why cant video games be the driver of this? We need more 2D Castlevania-games on the 3DS and a Dark Souls-inspired Castlevania on the consoles!
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They no longer have any confidence in the traditional console market outside of Metal Gear and PES, and to a lesser degree Silent Hill, despite what has happened recently.

They do still frequently license classic titles for Nintendo's Virtual Console and Hamster's Arcade Archives services, though.
 
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bigol

Member
Graphics Horse said:
They aren't burning down anything other than their console game side which is mostly P.E.S.
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Looking at the highlighted point saying that Myclub mode in PES has performed well i don't think they will burn it down. Instead PES will be their only remaining home consoles title because it still manages to sell well enough.
 
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1st Course

Member
Meia said:
Yep, makes total and complete sense to burn down your division that gives you 44% of your earnings to build up a division that gives you 6%. Total and complete sense.
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Digital Entertainment is not just console games

http://www.konami.co.jp/en/corporate/subsidiaries/

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
Address
9-7-2, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8324, Japan
Business Activity
Planning, production and distribution of mobile games, computer & video games, arcade games, cards, music, videos/dvds, goods.
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Unfortunately Konami don't give split for sub-divisions within the digital entertainment division.
 
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dark10x

Digital Foundry pixel pusher
Sooooo...it's a huge increase but still just a fraction of gaming and entertainment, it seems. Of course, that still includes shit mobile games soooo...
 
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CaviarMeths

Member
Can someone clarify 'digital entertainment' and 'games & systems' please? Which one does video games fall under?

Edit: clarified above, but now I'm wondering what 'games & systems' means.
 
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1st Course

Member
CaviarMeths said:
Can someone clarify 'digital entertainment' and 'games & systems' please? Which one does video games fall under?

Edit: clarified above, but now I'm wondering what 'games & systems' means.
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Gaming & Systems Business

Konami Gaming, Inc.
Address
585 Konami Circle, Las Vegas, NV 89119 U.S.A.
Business Activity
Production, manufacturing and distribution of gaming machines

Konami Australia Pty LtdKonami Australia Pty Ltd.
Address
28 Lord Street, Botany, NSW, Australia 2019
Business Activity
Manufacture, distribution, and service of gaming machines and casino management systems for the casino market
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Gaming = gambling stuff that not Pachinko basically.
 
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1st Course

Member
Digital Entertainment 2013 H1 split


David Gibson
‏@gibbogame
Konami digital entertainment revenues in 1H was 20% consumer games, 30% early was SNS, 25% eamusement and 25% card games

9:37 PM - 6 Nov 2013
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The above split was given during a financial conference apparently. Konami don't report split for sub-divisions in their official reports.
 
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Alex_Mexico

Member
I heard Castlevania Lords of Shadow 1 ended up being the best selling CV game in franchise history thus spawning not one but two sequels so it must mean Konamk was pleased with its sales right?

I'd love to know what we're the numbers from the inferior and worse reviewed LoS2. Would they be low enough for Konami to name it a failure and kill the franchise altogether?
 
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BY2K

Membero Americo
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

In my head it makes sense.
 
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Darksol

Member
People actually play Pachinko? The ones I saw were always abandoned when I was in Japan. I just assumed they were fronts for Yakuza :p

Also, screw Konami.
 
staticneuron

staticneuron

Member
Darksol said:
People actually play Pachinko? The ones I saw were always abandoned when I was in Japan. I just assumed they were fronts for Yakuza :p

Also, screw Konami.
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According to the economist



The country’s 12,000 parlours keep players sealed off from the outside world behind a thick wall of noise, smoke and gambler’s tension.
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Pachinko has been in decline for years, yet its revenues last year were put at 19 trillion yen ($175 billion). To give some idea, that was almost twice the Japanese motor industry’s export revenues. About one in seven Japanese adults play it regularly. For decades it has thrived in a legal grey zone, just about dodging an official ban on gambling. Now it faces two challenges: a government plan to allow the building of big, legal casinos; and finding a way to reinvent itself for the video-game generation.
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That is alot of money for a dying medium.
 
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bigol

Member
wiibomb said:
The Latin America must be like a 4th or 5th tier country... seriously, all gaming companies forget this part of the world exist (and we buy a lot, btw)
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Actually Brasil is very important to KONAMI, especially because there PES sells millions every year.
 
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samar11

Member
Companies are trying to make money, not to make fan-boys happy. I don't get why people on this forum are pissed off about ?
 
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