Scarlet Nexus will sell 1 million games by March, Bandai Namco predicts: they will turn it into a saga

The company announces its fiscal results with lower sales and profits in its gaming division.

Bandai Namco has published this morning its financial report with the results of the first quarter of the fiscal year, between April and June 2021. A period with positive results for the company in the global calculation, although lower than those of 2020 in its division of videogames , whose report leaves us with some very interesting details about Scarlet Nexus , the last great Action RPG from the Japanese company.

Shared by Twinfinite, Bandai Namco’s report highlights the launch of Scarlet Nexus as one of the main engines of its digital content division in the period, as well as catalog titles. Without disclosing its current numbers, the company claims that Scarlet Nexus is off to a strong start , expecting it to sell more than 1 million games by March 2022 , when the fiscal year ends.

They also make clear their intentions to turn Scarlet Nexus into an important new saga for them, thanks to the good joint performance that the game and its anime series , produced by Sunrise, have had. Regarding the data for the quarter, Bandai Namco closed the period with net income of 178,049 million yen (+ 22.8%). However, its video games division worsens the data for 2020. The digital segment registers sales of 66,834 million yen (515 million euros), which represents an annual change of -12.6% .

Likewise, the profits of the video games division fell by -39% , to 11,827 million yen (91 million euros). This segment will surely improve its figures with the future launches that the company has planned for the current fiscal year, which range from an expected Tales of Arise (September 10) to an even more anticipated Elden Ring , one of the games that generate the most expectations. right now, and it will be available this January .