Today Koei Tecmo announced its Financial Results for the first quarter of the fiscal year related to the period between April 1 and June 30, 2022.
For the company as a whole, sales were 18.654 million yen, down 9.1% year-on-year. Operating income was 11.657 million yen, up 19.9% year-on-year.
Looking at the Entertainment business, which includes video games and takes the lion’s share of the company’s overall business, sales were 17,805 million yen, down year-on-year from 19,648 million yen. Operating profit was up from 9,638 million yen to 11,491 million yen.
The ratio between overseas and domestic sales remains stable with 53.5% versus 46.5%.
That being said, this shifts considerably when we look at unit sales of packaged games which are 72.2% overseas (of which 34% in North America, 16.2% in Europe, and 22% in Asia) and 27.8% in Japan.
The ratio of digital download sales was 60.5%.
Packaged sales dropped considerably (30.8% year-on-year) while digital downloads grew 17.4% year-on-year and DLC sales grew 6.2%. Online and mobile games dropped 4.9% year-on-year.
In terms of sales of new games, Winning Post 9 2022 shipped 90,000 units, while Taiko Risshiden V DX shipped 160,000 units. Neither was released worldwide.
The company also released Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes but did not provide shipment numbers as the game was published by Nintendo.