Fate Grand Order (FGO), the mobile RPG that Bloomberg once compared with Pokemon Go, continues to print money for Sony subsidiary Aniplex.
According to a new release in the Japanese government’s Official Gazette, the company made US$1.8 billion in revenue in the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2018.
For the same time frame, operating profit reached US$462 million, with net profit amounting to US$312 million.
While Aniplex operates a number of businesses, nobody would doubt FGO is by far the biggest factor here. (It’s not disclosed how much exactly the game contributes by itself.)
Gacha and waifus always work – extremely well in the case of FGO.
By way of comparison:
For the previous fiscal (which ended on March 31, 2017), the Gazette shows “just” US$934 million in sales, US$221 million in operating and US$220 million in net profit.
In the meantime, FGO became available in other countries (i.e. North America, China, South East Asia, Korea), which is one reason for the increase.
Another is that things just continue to go well in FGO’s home market of Japan.
This is most probably not the end of the line for FGO: in October 2017, I mentioned to the Wall Street Journal that FGO should “remain highly profitable at least for another two years”.
N. B.:
While Aniplex published FGO, the actual game was planned and developed by Tokyo-based DELiGHTWORKS.
Via Social Game Info (JP)
