Sega-Sammy Posts Net Loss in FY 2015

Sega-Sammy have revealed their results for the past fiscal year (ending March 30, 2015), and they’re not particularly good. The company has posted a 11.2 billion yen loss, compared to their 30.721 billion yen profit the year before. While the consumer business (the one with Sega’s console/PC/mobile games) managed to do better than the year before by posting a 4 million yen profit, the Pachinko/Pachislot saw a drastic decline in profit, with income nearly half of that of the year before (still 25.796 billion yen). Things looked particularly bad for the Amusement Machine Sales and Amusement Center Operations side, which both posted net losses. All this contributed to a considerably reduced income, leading to an overall net loss for the holding company.

Like last year, Sega-Sammy noted that the packaged games sales were “weak” due to “harsh market environment,” even though they did sell more packaged games than the year before. Here are the results of their biggest games last year:

In an effort to turn things around for the company in their new “Entertainment Contents Business” (which is basically a combination of their old Consumer, Amusement Machine and Amusement Center Operations divisions), Sega-Sammy promises to “promptly shift management resources from fields such as packaged game software and amusement machine” towards their digital game software for smartphones and online PC games as well as “streamline” operations for their packaged games overseas. They also plan the transitions of IP for packaged games such as the “Total War” series into digital games.

Judging from their forecasts for the next fiscal year, it seems Sega-Sammy seems to expect to actually sell less than half the amount of games they sold this year overseas (7,140 copies versus 12,300 copies the year before). Let’s hope sales turn out better than expected!