Bandai Namco has just released its financial report for the fiscal year ended March 2025.The Japanese publisher achieved very impressive results, exceeding expectations.

Bandai Namco's game business unit achieved record profits, a sharp increase of 995% to $475 million, up $267 million from expectations.

The financial report also showed that net sales increased by 22.3% year-on-year to $3.16 billion, far exceeding the forecast of $2.57 billion.

Bandai Namco's revenue mainly comes from the sales of console games, which saw sales increase by 42.6% over last year.All this is thanks to FromSoftware's DLC "Eldon Ferry: Shadow of the Golden Tree", which performed very well as a paid expansion pack.

Then there is the Dragon Ball that has violated 18 years of lightning explosion!ZERO has also achieved great success.The game has sold 5.4 million copies worldwide in less than a year. As a fighting game, this is already a very good performance.

In addition, Bandai’s instant service department also grew slightly by 3.5%.

As the company has no other major 3A masterpieces except Elden Fargo: The Night Landing, the company may drop in revenue in the coming year.The company expects sales to fall by 14.4% year-on-year and operating costs to fall by 41.6%.