Marvelous distinguishes its video game activity into two groups: online game and consumer game. The first corresponds to mobile games that are known only in Japan, such as Senran Kagura: New Link. The latest game in this segment, a certain The Thousand Musketeers: Rhodoknight, underperformed and brought with it a drop in smartphone profits: only 4.5 million euros against more than 10 million euros a year earlier. early.
Marvelous is therefore not a big player in mobile gaming, but is catching up with the group consumer game, which made a profit of 38 million euros (31 million a year earlier). Thanks to Rune Factory 5, distributed to more than 500,000 copies worldwide as of March 31, 2022, following its release in the West. Marvelous was also able to count on Pokémon Mezastar, an arcade machine released in Japan in September 2020 and which continues to be successful.
Regarding its plans for the new fiscal year, the Daemon x Machina studio will return in a few days on consoles and PC with Deadcraft, a kind of post-apo management/survival game. We are also awaiting news of LOOP8, an RPG whose setting looks rather interesting. A PS4 port of Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town has also been announced for July 28.