Summary
Despite significant challenges throughout much of 2024,Bandai Namcohas seen its gaming profits surge by almost 1,000% in the last fiscal year. The Japanese gaming giant has kept busy in recent months, with expansions and big announcements forElden Ringand the release ofDragon Ball: Sparking Zero. Those efforts seemed to have paid off, asBandai Namco’s financial results have exceeded its own expectations.
The past year was by no means an easy one for the conglomerate. Reports suggested thatBandai Namco let go of over 100 employeesbetween April 2024 and February 2025. It also shut down its MMOBlue Protocoland canceled the mobile titleTales of the Rays,among other games that never made it out of development. Despite those hits, the latest earnings report shows that the company has recovered in impressive fashion.
Asreported by GameBiz, Bandai Namco’s digital segment saw 995.1% profit growth in the fiscal year ending in March 2025. That’s thanks to over $3 billion in sales for the year, when the company was planning on a $2.5 billion sales figure for the home video game and mobile gaming department. Much of those sales came from a few key titles, most notably, an uptick in gamers buyingElden Ringcontent. After the release of theShadow of the ErdtreeDLC,Elden Ringreclaimed its spot as the top-selling gamein June 2024, its first appearance at the top of the monthly sales chart since its 2022 release.
Elden Ring and Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Drive a 995.1% Profit Increase for Bandai Namco
Elden Ringwasn’t Bandai Namco’s only major success, though. According to the earnings report,Dragon Ball: Sparking Zerosold 5.4 million copies during the period to help drive profits even higher. Those sales figuresmadeDragon Ball: Sparking Zerothe fastest-sellingDragon Ballconsole titleto date and the third-highest-selling Bandai Namco game of all time.
Looking ahead, the company expects a decline in sales and profits for the next fiscal year. That could be just a matter of Bandai Namco recognizing that a near-1,000% profit increase is unlikely to happen again, even with a strong lineup. Still, the company has some big titles in the works for fans to look forward to. Beloved gaming icon Masahiro Sakurai revealed thatBandai Namco will help developKirby Air Ridersfor the Switch 2, and there’s theTarnished EditionofElden Ringcoming soon as well. Replicating this past year’s success will be hard, but things are looking good for Bandai Namco right now.
