{"id":49391,"date":"2025-06-25T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=49391"},"modified":"2025-06-25T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:40:46","slug":"nippon-ichi-software-faces-losses-over-prolonged-contract-work-for-other-companies-announces-further-shift-to-its-own-ips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nippon-ichi-software-faces-losses-over-prolonged-contract-work-for-other-companies-announces-further-shift-to-its-own-ips\/","title":{"rendered":"Nippon Ichi Software faces losses over prolonged contract work for other companies, announces further shift to its own IPs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Disgaea series developer Nippon Ichi Software (NIS) has recently announced their decision to shift from contract work for other developers to working more on in-house games, which they predict will result in significant financial losses. Not long ago, NIS also presented as many as 5 new original titles set to release in 2025 and 2026, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/if-we-dont-make-new-ips-well-die-nippon-ichi-software-believes-mid-size-developers-need-to-do-what-the-big-guns-cant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">developers admitting<\/a> having to take many creative workarounds amidst rising development costs and financial constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/kabutan.jp\/news\/?b=k202506200002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kabutan<\/a> reports, Nippon Ichi Software announced a revision of their financial forecast on June 20, predicting a deficit of 254 million yen\u00a0(around 1.7 million USD) for the first half of the financial year &#8211; \u00a0higher than\u00a0the originally predicted loss of\u00a084 million yen (around 570,000 USD). The developer also estimates that yearly profits for the full fiscal year will drop by 52.6% \u2013 from the originally planned 325 million yen to 150 million yen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250624-493910001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250624-493910001.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250624-493910001-380x214.jpg 380w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NIS states that the main reason for this deficit was their decision to \u201creassess and revise\u201d their contracts with other game companies, which suggests they have pulled out of or scaled down on some of their co-development work for clients. Apparently, the development cycle for these projects ended up lasting longer than planned, exceeding the original deadlines and causing NIS to eventually withdraw from them. As NIS is paid for this contract work based on the percentage of the project\u2019s overall completion (as opposed to being time period-based) \u2013 this means that they will only be paid for the portion of work they did before pulling out of the contracts. This is what has caused projected losses to far exceed the previous forecast. However, NIS likely considers this a short-term loss necessary for them to further shift their focus to developing in-house IPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1152\" height=\"648\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250624-493910002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250624-493910002.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250624-493910002-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250624-493910002-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nippon Ichi Software <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/if-we-dont-make-new-ips-well-die-nippon-ichi-software-believes-mid-size-developers-need-to-do-what-the-big-guns-cant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has always been leaning towards<\/a> making original IP content \u2013 being a mid-sized company, they point out that their survival depends on doing things differently than triple-A studios, and that includes making bolder choices in developing games and embracing the creativity that comes with financial constraints. With 5 new IPs coming over the next two years, this shift from contract work to working on in-house games doesn\u2019t come as a surprise at all considering the studio\u2019s aspirations \u2013 in fact, it could be the push NIS needed to take on more original projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nippon Ichi Software plans to shift from contract work to making more in-house IP games, predicting a loss of over 245 million yen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":49395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[261,17],"class_list":["post-49391","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 v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nippon Ichi Software faces losses over prolonged contract work for other companies, announces further shift to its own IPs - 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