Sega Sammy Group summed up the results of fiscal year 2017 (ended March 31, 2018). According to the company’s report, Sega earned ¥57 billion ($522 million) from the sale of physical copies of its games, while digital sales of titles generated ¥38.5 billion ($352 million).
Over the past fiscal year, the company sold 17.3 million gaming boxes — 7 million more than a year earlier. Sega highlighted the performance of the Persona 5 role-playing game, whose global retail sales exceeded 2 million copies.
Among the important digital releases, Sega highlighted the launch of the Magia Record mobile games: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story and Ｄ×２Shin Megami Tensei Liberation, and Ｄ×２ became the first mobile game in the Shin Megami Tensei role-playing franchise.
The annual revenues of the entire entertainment division of Entertainment Contents of the company remained at the level of 2016 and amounted to ¥208 billion ($ 1.9 billion). But the operating profit of this segment increased by 33% and reached 14.8 billion ($135 million).
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