Tekken 8 developer Bandai Namco Studios recently reported its financial results for the fiscal year ending March 2025, which (as reported by GameBiz) showed a final deficit of 851 million JPY (over $5.8 million USD). While they’re still in the red, it is a remarkable improvement over the company’s previous fiscal year ending in March 2024, which resulted in a total loss of 3.983 billion JPY (over $27 million USD).
Bandai Namco Studios had been profitable for each fiscal period since its founding up until 2024. The large-scale losses incurred during the year are thought to be strongly related to their involvement in Blue Protocol’s development. The ambitious MMORPG failed to meet Bandai Namco’s expectations and was prematurely shut down, resulting in a lost investment. Bandai Namco Studios co-developed Blue Protocol alongside Bandai Namco Online, the latter of which was dissolved and folded into Bandai Namco Studios as a result of the weak performance.
But following several changes within Bandai Namco Studios and its parent company Bandai Namco Holdings (such as a reduction in staff), the studio seems to be recovering financially.
In the meantime, Bandai Namco Studios is continuing to work on its in-house game engine, based on their NU Library middleware that was used to create many titles since the PS2 era.
