{"id":30766,"date":"2018-07-06T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/321535"},"modified":"2018-07-06T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:11:00","slug":"following-fate-grand-order-international-release-sony-aniplex-hits-1-8b-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/following-fate-grand-order-international-release-sony-aniplex-hits-1-8b-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Fate\/Grand Order international release, Sony Aniplex hits $1.8B revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serkantoto.com\/2018\/07\/06\/fate-grand-order-fgo-revenue-profit\/\">information gathered by industry consultant Dr. Serkan Toto<\/a> the Sony-owned publisher behind <em>Fate\/Grand Order<\/em>, Aniplex, has hit $1.8 billion revenue for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For comparison\u2019s sake, that number is roughly twice the sales figure of $934 million reported by the company during the preceding year. Aniplex reported net profit of $312 million to the Japanese government for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018, up from the $220 million reported the year before.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Toto himself speculates that the revenue increase is due in no small part to the international release of the previously Japan-only free-to-play mobile gacha game <em>Fate\/Grand Order<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the company itself doesn\u2019t call out the game\u2019s specific contributions, Dr. Toto notes that the game\u2019s release in North America, China, South East Asia, and South Korea likely played a significant part in the 2017-2018 figures, alongside the game\u2019s continued popularity in Japan as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to information gathered by industry consultant Dr. Serkan Toto the Sony-owned publisher behind Fate\/Grand Order, Aniplex, has hit $1.8 billion revenue for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.\u00a0 For comparison\u2019s sake, that number is roughly twice the sales figure of $934 million reported by the company during the preceding year. Aniplex reported net profit of $312 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30766","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\/30766","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=30766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}