The first three months of the CD Projekt Group\u2019s 2020 year are starting out on a high note, financially speaking. At the close of the first quarter, the group covering game dev CD Projekt Red, game storefront GOG, and a handful of other businesses reported PLN 92 million (~$22.9 million) in net profit, up from last year\u2019s PLN 20.5 million (~$5.1 million) net profit during the same chunk of time.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth with regard to sales and net profit this was the best first quarter in the Group\u2019s history,” explains CFO Piotr Nielubowicz.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe largest contribution to these results again came from strong sales of The Witcher 3<\/em>, including its Nintendo Switch edition released last October. We take pride in this achievement \u2013 particularly given that The Witcher 3<\/em> has just celebrated its fifth anniversary. Our results were also bolstered by Gwent<\/em> and Thronebreaker<\/em>. In the first quarter Gwent<\/em> was released on Android devices, while Thronebreaker<\/em> debuted on Nintendo Switch.\u201d<\/p>\n The CD Projekt Group reported PLN 192.972 million (~$48 million) in revenue for the quarter ending March 31, 2020, up quite a bit from the PLN 80.9 million (~$20.1 million) reported during the same quarter last year. The bulk of that increase looks to have come straight from game sales; CD Projekt\u2019s \u201crevenues from sales of products\u201d category alone reported a 169.7 percent increase year over year, coming in at PLN 137.2 million (~$34.1 million) for Q1 2020.<\/p>\n The two other categories that make up those overall sales revenues\u2014sales of services and sales of goods & materials\u2014also saw year over year increases. Services rose to PLN 319,000 (~$79,309) from last year\u2019s PLN 48,000 (~$11.933).<\/p>\n Goods and materials–the category that captures revenue from the physical components of physical game collectors editions, merchandise sold through CDPR\u2019s online store, and externally developed games sold through GOG.com\u2014saw an 85 percent increase year-over-year, coming in at PLN 55.433 million (~$13.8 million) for the quarter.<\/p>\n Breaking things down differently, the game development studio CD Projekt Red was responsible for PLN 147.8 million (~$36.7 million) of those overall sales revenue, while GOG.com chipped in for 49 million (~$12.2 million).<\/p>\n \u201cThe reported increase in Q1 revenues, both at CD Projekt Red and GOG.com, was likely associated with the growing popularity of videogames in light of movement restrictions and stay-at-home orders introduced in many countries,\u201d notes Nielubowicz. \u201cWe\u2019re very happy that in this difficult period our videogames provided joy and entertainment to millions of people around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first three months of the CD Projekt Group\u2019s 2020 year are starting out on a high note, financially speaking. At the close of the first quarter, the group covering game dev CD Projekt Red, game storefront GOG, and a handful of other businesses reported PLN 92 million (~$22.9 million) in net profit, up from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}