EDIT: Updated with more companies, and decided to remove the net income chart because it was pretty messy.
I put together a little square-off to see who's earning the most games revenues. Turns out Sony tops the charts, even beating Tencent in games earnings. Bear in mind CD Projekt RED has yet to release their earnings, so the chart is technically incomplete.
Also note these are game revenues, not total company revenues. Also note that Activision-Blizzard is calendar year 2019, and Xbox is trailing twelve months. The other companies are set in fiscal years (April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020).
Here's the top earners so far in revenues only:
Here's a numbers breakdown by net revenues:
Interesting tidbits about each company:
(as of March 31,2021)
108.7 yen = 1 USD
1 euro = 1.1028 USD
1 SEK = 0.10092 USD
I put together a little square-off to see who's earning the most games revenues. Turns out Sony tops the charts, even beating Tencent in games earnings. Bear in mind CD Projekt RED has yet to release their earnings, so the chart is technically incomplete.
Also note these are game revenues, not total company revenues. Also note that Activision-Blizzard is calendar year 2019, and Xbox is trailing twelve months. The other companies are set in fiscal years (April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020).
Here's the top earners so far in revenues only:
Here's a numbers breakdown by net revenues:
- Sony - $18.19 billion
- Tencent - $16.224 billion
- Nintendo - $12.010 billion
- Xbox - $10.260 billion (trailing 12 months)
- NetEase - $6.668 billion
- Activision-Blizzard - $6.388 billion
- Electronic Arts - $5.537 billion
- Take-Two Interactive - $3.089 billion
- Bandai Namco - $3.018 billion
- Square Enix - $2.396 billion
- Nexon - $2.286 billion
- Net Marble - $1.883 billion
- Ubisoft - $1.446 billion
- Konami - $1.303 billion
- SEGA - $1.153 billion
- Capcom - $767.30 million
- Embracer Group - $322.5 million
Interesting tidbits about each company:
- Sony's total company profits dropped 36%, and digital raked in 51% of total Games & Network Services segment earnings, or $9 billion
- Tencent only makes 30% of its revenue from games
- Nintendo profit jumped 30% to $2.37 billion thanks to massive software spikes--software was up 44% to 168.72 million games sold
- Xbox revenues typically make ~10% of total Microsoft earnings
- Mobile games accounted for 71% of NetEase's FY19 earnings
- Activision-Blizzard earned $956 million in mTX in Q1, and $3.36 billion from mTX in Calendar Year 2019
- EA reported $3 billion in total profits thanks to a huge $1.5 billion tax compensation
- Take-Two's revenues are up to record $3bn in FY2020 thanks to games like NBA 2K20 and GTAO, which had its best year ever, and it has 93 games in dev (but not all will release)
- Bandai Namco earned $6.8 billion in FY19, more than EA and Activision, but that includes toys too ($2.3bn was from toys, $3bn from games)
- Konami is still raking in strong earnings from PES, Yu-gi-oh, and mobile games
- Square Enix makes 56% of its games revenue from mobile
- Nexon earned 76% of its yearly earnings from PC, and China made up 45% of its regional earnings
- Net Marble earns more money from North America than it does from Korea, and Marvel Contest of Champions made up 17% of its yearly earnings
- Ubisoft plans to ship 5 AAA games this fiscal year and predicts massive operating income of up to 600 million Euros
- SEGA's physical game sales were up a huge 43% YoY, and digital game sales rose 15%
- Capcom reported its third consecutive year of record profits in FY19, and plans to ship a record 28m games this FY
- Embracer Group (THQ Nordic) has 118 games in development across 92 dev teams (3,000+ employees)
(as of March 31,2021)
108.7 yen = 1 USD
1 euro = 1.1028 USD
1 SEK = 0.10092 USD
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