True to form, Konami achieves a turnover of around 2 billion dollars. Operating profit and net profit, on the other hand, are down 38% and 36% respectively, but it should be noted that the comparison is made with what was the publisher’s record year. Mobile is as always the main responsible for these good results with Professional Baseball Spirits Ace, the king of baseball games in Japan, or eFootball 2023, whose number of downloads reached 600 million all platforms combined. Add to that the success of the free-to-play Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel which featured in the 12 highest-grossing games on Steam in 2022. And as announced last month, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection surpassed one million in sales.
Quiet like Konami
For the new year, Konami intends to move forward by betting on a turnover of 2.2 billion euros, an operating profit of 408 million euros and a net profit of 279 million euros. With what games? By March 2024, we can still hope to get our hands on the remake of Silent Hill 2 by Bloober Team, even if no date has been confirmed, just like Suikoden I&II HD Remaster which is however expected in 2023. As June approaches, the month of all the announcements, rumors are still rife regarding a new Castlevania installment as well as Metal Gear Solid remake/remaster projects. In the meantime, we will have to settle for Super Bomberman R 2 (September 14) while Japanese families can count on the next Momotaro Dentetsu, the golden egg hen whose latest opus has exceeded 3.5 million sales in the archipelago. And failing to honor its past by developing a shoot’em up itself, Konami will publish this year CYGNI: All Guns Blazing from independent studio KeelWorks.
