Bandai Namco today announced its Q3 (April-December) financial report for fiscal 21-22, with sales of 628.311 billion yen at the end of the quarter, an increase of 15.6% year-on-year, and operating profit of 92.153 billion yen, an increase of 26.4% year-on-year.
The digital business, which focuses on game content, had sales of 242,321 million yen at the end of the quarter, down 4.6% year-on-year, and segment profit was 37,633 million yen, down 20.5% year-on-year. As with the previous quarter's financial report, although the sales of the latest work in the series, "The Legend of Dawn", are good and the sales of old works have been steadily increasing in the past, the overall momentum is still not as good as the same period in the previous fiscal year, and compared with the same period of the previous fiscal year, the company's investment in new large-scale works has increased, and initial expenses such as development expenses have been prepaid.
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