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Bandai Namco’s newest investor report for the tip of fiscal 12 months 2022 has been launched, and the intensive doc is usually used to measure the place the writer and developer’s assortment of properties are performing when it comes to gross sales and income.

The part on online game gross sales numbers additionally had its personal surprises, with FromSoftware’s Elden Ring promoting barely over 20 million copies since its launch originally of 2022, making it one of many hottest video games within the developer’s historical past at 20.5 million copies offered up to now.

The sport proved standard at first because of the current fanbase cultivated through the years from the Soulsborne collection of video games—from Demon’s Souls to the Darkish Souls collection and PlayStation hit Bloodborne—however Bandai Namco’s expanded advertising and marketing and publishing marketing campaign for the sport noticed it attain heights of visibility and recognition that no FromSoftware sport had loved beforehand, even throughout the Armored Core period.

Bandai Namco’s monetary outcomes completed out strongly for fiscal 12 months 2022 due to Elden Ring‘s recognition, reaching $7.3 billion in gross sales for the earlier fiscal 12 months ending March 31, 2023. This compares fairly favorably to fiscal 12 months 2022, which reached a complete of $6.6 billion in gross sales income, representing an 11 % enhance in income year-over-year.

In consequence, Bandai Namco are more and more optimistic for the brand new fiscal 12 months, forecasting a slight gross sales enhance to $7.4 billion for fiscal 12 months 2024. Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon will probably be a spotlight with its launch coming in August whereas one other Naruto sport is within the pipeline, and the long-awaited Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC can be anticipated to be launched throughout the fiscal 12 months, including to the rosy projections.

Sources: Bandai Namco Fiscal Year 2022 End Investor Report (JP), Fiscal Year 2022 End Investor Presentation (JP)