Atlus Reports Net Loss of 904 Million Yen for Fiscal Year, Physical Game Sales Strong

Atlus's latest financial report reveals a net loss of over 900 million yen. Despite this, Atlus states its overall business sales have been strong.

[Vits]

Unfortunately that wasn't caused by a lack of sales. So they will mostly likely not expand their multiplatform catalog.

[AspiringProGenji]

Unfortunately, really?

[LegoIsAwesome]

"Bring the P5R to the Switch" comments will show up in the following hours for sure

[Shiken]

It wouldn't be a bad idea and hurt no one, so who cares?

[LegoIsAwesome]

Nothing. It's just in every articles that includes Atlus, there's always some people begging for it to be release on the Switch. Sorry it's just funny. They begged for a Persona game, now they have it. Persona 5 "Scramble"

[Kribwalker]

P5R to the switch would turn that loss into a huge profit for sure

[rainslacker]

That amounts to about 8 million dollars.

The loss is more because of all they have in production, so bringing a game to switch may cost them around a million, at which they'd probably return 4-5 million, which means less of a loss.

But, because of the way corporate finances are determined, it means they may have better profits in the future, as money would have been written off this year, instead of the year of release.

[Chevalier]

Looks like someone didn't actually read the article. The posted loss is just them posting amortization from their business transfer to Sega. Their sales helped Sega this year.

With Persona 5 Royal launching this year then coming next year in N.A. their sales will be better than this year so no worries they'll be more than fine.

[Vits]

Looks like someone didn't actually read my comment: "Unfortunately that wasn't caused by a lack of sales".

[NXFather]

So you saying they may not be able to fix the situation. Alright.

[SamPao]

maybe read the article, they are in no way in a bad situation.

[NXFather]

@SamPao

Yeah. I gathered that from the Sony Force but, I was simply responding to Vits and Vits only. Thanks for the concern. I like Atlus games if that helps.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

As you long you make great games, ppl will buy in droves

[TheOptimist]

Are you sure? Call of Duty sells the most each year.

[DarXyde]

That doesn't exactly disprove that great games sell well either - they didn't say ONLY great games sell well.

That's neither here nor there.

The loss is essentially from loan repayments following the Sega acquisition.

[GameBoyColor]

their great games are kinda spaced out, they really waste time and probably money making filler games in between.

[AK91]

I hope this means more traditional games from Atlus then.

[lociefer]

I would have been worried if their sales weren't strong. Honestly Persona 5 is one of the best games ever made and it would be a blow to gaming if they stopped making similar games

[Sirk7x]

Basically, they're funneling money in Sega, and recording losses for tax purposes. The company is doing fine. You see it all the time with Hollywood accounting. Some of the biggest selling movies of all time have recorded losses of hundreds of millions. It's shady and questionable, for sure, but that's just how they do it.

[Tross]

Let's hope that's all it is. I'm sure Persona 5: Royal will give them a much needed boost in revenue and I'm going to help with that.

[Djinn]

This is in yen. So basically they lost pocket change.

[Tross]

$9.04 million before accounting for exchange rate (as that's a figure I don't feel like looking up) probably isn't debilitating but it would be far better to not have that debt.

[Imortus_san]

Make more multiplatform games.

[Tross]

You could get a PS4 you know. Just saying. It's been almost six years since it launched.

[Imortus_san]

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