Bandai Namco Gross sales and Earnings Soar Due to Elden Ring Players Area

Bandai Namco has launched its monetary outcomes for the primary quarter of the 2025-26 fiscal yr, and each gross sales and earnings for the writer are up, pushed largely by robust gross sales for Elden Ring and its related titles.

As revealed in its newest monetary assertion, Bandai Namco’s internet gross sales have risen by 7% when in comparison with the identical interval final yr, and its working revenue is up by 18%. These rises are extra modest than these of final yr, however that is to be anticipated provided that the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree landed in that interval.

In an accompanying presentation (which is in Japanese, so we’re utilizing further reporting by Automaton Media), Bandai Namco attributes this quarter’s success not less than partly to Elden Ring Nightreign, which was revealed final month to have offered over 5 million copies.

As Automaton notes, two Japan-exclusive releases additionally bolstered Bandai Namco’s funds for the primary quarter of the yr, specifically a Tamagotchi companion title and an SD Gundam cellular sport.

With reference to the long run, in the meantime, Bandai Namco has quite a few massive releases on the horizon. These embody the likes of The Blood of Dawnwalker, a serious RPG developed by ex-Witcher staffers, and Code Vein II, a followup to the anime-inflected 2019 Soulslike.

One other massive Bandai Namco launch coming within the subsequent few months is, in fact, Little Nightmares III, the third main installment within the Little Nightmares collection of side-scrolling horror platformers. It is at the moment as a result of land in October.

That is regardless of layoffs at developer Supermassive Video games; when mentioned layoffs had been introduced, the studio made it clear improvement on Little Nightmares III could be unaffected, though sci-fi journey Directive 8020 has been delayed.

Information of Bandai Namco’s quarterly efficiency additionally comes simply a few weeks after Sony introduced that it had bought a 2.5% stake within the writer, with a view to shoring up its anime and manga choices and reaching wider audiences because of this.