{"id":48419,"date":"2025-05-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=48419"},"modified":"2025-05-27T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:46:09","slug":"rune-factory-publisher-marvelous-expects-profits-to-bounce-back-to-record-highs-following-decline-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/rune-factory-publisher-marvelous-expects-profits-to-bounce-back-to-record-highs-following-decline-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Rune Factory publisher Marvelous expects profits to bounce back to record highs following decline last year\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following a significant decrease in earnings<\/a> in the fiscal year ending March 2025 and a change in leadership coupled with executive pay cuts<\/a>, Japanese game developer, publisher, and anime production studio Marvelous<\/strong> is expecting a much stronger fiscal year ending March 2026. This optimism stems from three major upcoming game releases – Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, and Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion \u2013 all of which are being developed by the studio and are set to release within the fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As reported by GameBiz<\/a>, Marvelous is expecting total sales to reach 35 billion JPY (a rough 25.2% increase compared to the previous fiscal year and a new record high), an operating and ordinary profit of 2 billion JPY (a 10% and 11.1% increase respectively), and a net profit of 1.4 billion JPY (a 71% increase). Marvelous states that while net revenue is expected to grow significantly, development costs for the new games will limit profitability at first. Full-scale profit contributions are expected to begin in the second half of the fiscal year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to the three aforementioned titles, Marvelous is planning to release a new Browser Sangokushi Ten<\/a> mobile game for iOS and Android devices in 2025. Several indie and acquisition titles are also rumored to be in the works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To aid with the upcoming releases, arcade games like Pok\u00e9mon Frienda and Pok\u00e9mon Mezastar are expected to contribute to the studio\u2019s overall earnings. Marvelous will also be looking into its ventures in the music and video industry and see how it can improve profitability in these areas.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With three big releases slated for the ongoing fiscal year, Rune Factory publisher Marvelous expects revenue to hit record highs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":48426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[261,17],"class_list":["post-48419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-financial-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nRune Factory publisher Marvelous expects profits to bounce back to record highs following decline last year\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With three big releases slated for the ongoing fiscal year, Rune Factory publisher Marvelous expects revenue to hit record highs.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/rune-factory-publisher-marvelous-expects-profits-to-bounce-back-to-record-highs-following-decline-last-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rune Factory publisher Marvelous expects profits to bounce back to record highs following decline last year\u00a0 - 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