Earlier this year, we heard KonamiRevenue has grown from previous years — and now, according to the company’s latest financial report (via InstallBase), things look better.
In short, at the start of the most recent fiscal year, Konami reported that it had 20.24B yen ($1.5 billion) in cash and cash equivalents. Now, at the end of the same fiscal year, the publisher has ¥250.7B ($1.9B) in cash and cash equivalents – a gain of ¥48.3B. Buoyed by record profits, the company issued a press release stating that it is keen to continue selling NFTs, implying that its entry into the market is an “effort to preserve what customers love as an art.”
But – aside from NFTs – what exactly makes money for the company? Well, in Japan, the publisher points out that games like Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 4th Heart and Power Pro Kun Pocket R do well on Switch. But it seems the real cash cows are Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel and eFootball. Konami also operates pinball machines, which form a large part of the company’s modern gaming portfolio.
Konami hasn’t announced many of the games that most players love lately — thus, more entries in the Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania or Silent Hill series — but we did hear last year that the publisher was “deeply developing” some projects.
Back in 2020, reports surfaced that the publisher was quietly working on two new Silent Hill games, though there hasn’t been any evidence of this yet. The games are said to take the form of a “soft reboot of the franchise” and “an episodic TellTale/Until Dawn-style game that coincides with the reboot.”
The publisher’s most notable release of late is GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon — an unexpected follow-up to the 1987 Japan-only Famicom game.
