{"id":43510,"date":"2025-01-30T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T09:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=43510"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:31:29","slug":"fitness-boxing-developer-imagineer-sees-97-profit-increase-with-strong-performance-of-new-switch-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/fitness-boxing-developer-imagineer-sees-97-profit-increase-with-strong-performance-of-new-switch-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Boxing developer sees 97% profit increase, with strong performance of new Switch releases\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Imagineer have announced their financial results for the first three quarters (April to December 2024) of the fiscal year ending March 2025. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/gamebiz.jp\/news\/399979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GameBiz<\/a>, the Japanese developer saw increases across the board, with operating profits up 111% and net profit up by 97.5% year-on-year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, Imagineer has primarily worked on Nintendo Switch titles. This fiscal year, they have released 7 new games. The third quarter alone saw the launch of Fitness Boxing 3, Disney Music Parade Encore and Japan-only release <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/the-raging-success-of-fitness-boxing-has-pushed-imagineer-to-make-a-comeback-in-console-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mystery Walk<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The global success of the Fitness Boxing series and new title Fitness Boxing 3 made a substantial contribution to these results. Following the November release of Fitness Boxing 3, total worldwide sales of the Fitness Boxing series exceeded 3 million units sold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250130-43510-001.jpg\" alt=\"Imagineer Medabots Survivor\" class=\"wp-image-43518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250130-43510-001.jpg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250130-43510-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250130-43510-001-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Medabots Survivor.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagineer is also the publisher of the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20211112-6002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medabots<\/a> series of RPGs, which have predominantly been Japan-only releases. The company plans to launch the smartphone game Medabots Survivor in Japan this February, and has already opened pre-registrations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagineer\u2019s financial results for the previous 9 months (April to December 2024) were as follows:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-5-background-color has-background\">Net sales: 4.8 billion yen (up 13.4% year-on-year)\u00a0<br>Operating profit: 407 million yen (up 111.1% year-on-year\uff09\u00a0<br>Ordinary profit: 797 million yen (up 97.1% year-on-year)\u00a0<br>Net profit: 529 million yen (up 97.5% year-on-year)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company\u2019s full-year forecast for the 2025 financial year remains unchanged, as follows:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-5-background-color has-background\">Net sales: 6.2 billion yen (up 4% year-on-year)&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Operating profit: 450 million yen (up 30.1% year-on-year)&nbsp;<br>Ordinary profit: 670 million yen (up 2% year-on-year)&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Net profit: 460 million yen (up 10.5% year-on-year)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese game company Imagineer&#8217;s latest financial results highlight the success of their recent Switch releases, like Fitness Boxing 3 and Disney Music Parade Encore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":43517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[261,17],"class_list":["post-43510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-financial-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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