In its latest earnings report for the previous fiscal year, Bandai Namco has revealed how well some of its titles did. As caught by Automaton, the company has seen its profits go up by an incredible amount – 995 percent – owing in large part to the success of the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree, as well as the release of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO.
While profits saw a great jump, overall revenue had increased over the previous year by 22.3 percent, amounting to roughly $3.16 billion. This figure is well over the company’s own forecast of $2.57 billion in revenue. On the profits side of things, the company made $475 million, which was also well over the forecasted $208 million in profits.
According to the earnings report, Bandai Namco’s revenue was helped quite a bit by major console releases. Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO, for instance, had sold more than 5.4 million copies. Overall sales of console games has been on the rise for Bandai Namco, with the company reporting 42.6 percent more sales than it had seen in the previous year.
When it comes to its mobile titles, Bandai Namco is also seeing growth there, albeit at a slower rate. The company has reported a growth of 3.5 percent in sales year-on-year, with licensed titles based on popular manga and anime like Dragon Ball and One Piece, as well as other titles like Gakuen Idolmaster being major parts of the growth.
Bandai Namco had revealed back in November that it was seeing great revenue increases thanks to Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO, which the company had also confirmed had sold more than 3 million copies in its first 24 hours of release. At the time, the company had reported net sales having increased 21.8 percent over the previous year, as well as a 188 percent increase in profits.
Back in June 2024, Bandai Namco had confirmed that Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree had sold more than 5 million copies. The sales figure came despite the backlash the DLC was seeing at the time, being perceived by many as being unfairly difficult. Developer FromSoftware had since responded to the complaints with a series of patches that brought down some of the game’s difficulty, however.
For more details about both titles, check our our reviews for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, as well as Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO.
