{"id":49416,"date":"2025-06-25T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=49416"},"modified":"2025-06-25T16:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:24:02","slug":"bandai-namco-studios-significantly-lowers-last-years-large-scale-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/bandai-namco-studios-significantly-lowers-last-years-large-scale-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandai Namco Studios significantly lowers last year\u2019s large-scale deficit\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tekken 8 developer <\/strong>Bandai Namco Studios<\/strong> recently reported its financial results for the fiscal year ending March 2025, which (as reported by GameBiz<\/a>) showed a final deficit of 851 million JPY (over $5.8 million USD). While they\u2019re still in the red, it is a remarkable improvement over the company\u2019s previous fiscal year<\/a> ending in March 2024, which resulted in a total loss of 3.983 billion JPY (over $27 million USD). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s development. The ambitious MMORPG failed to meet Bandai Namco\u2019s expectations <\/a>and was prematurely shut down<\/a>, resulting in a lost investment.\u00a0 Bandai Namco Studios co-developed Blue Protocol alongside Bandai Namco Online, the latter of which was dissolved and folded into Bandai Namco Studios<\/a> as a result of the weak performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jin<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But\u00a0following several changes within Bandai Namco Studios and its parent company Bandai Namco Holdings (such as a reduction in staff<\/a>), the studio seems to be recovering financially.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, Bandai Namco Studios is continuing to work on its in-house game engine<\/a>, based on their NU Library middleware that was used to create many titles since the PS2 era. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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