Fiscal year 2019 was marked by Take-Two Interactive , but even more than five years after the release, plays a significant role in the income of the publishing house . In the newest the company spoke about the results of the past period, including the success of the multiplayer action game Red Dead Online. Shortly after its publication, the game unexpectedly left the beta testing stage.
For the full year, the company generated $2,67 billion in revenue, up 49% from fiscal 2018. Net sales rose 47% to a record $2,93 billion and net income grew 92% to $333,8 million. In the last quarter alone, revenue showed a 20% increase to $539 million, while net income rose 37% to $56,8 million. As in 2018, digital sales account for 63% ($1,681 billion).
Red Dead Redemption 2 has reached 24 million copies worldwide, but shipment growth has slowed, with Take-Two shipping 23 million units in the third quarter. The slowdown is explained by the lack of discounts - in the future, when the price is lowered, sales will certainly pick up. Revenue Red Dead Online compared to the previous three months has grown, but the exact data is not disclosed. In an interview CEO Strauss Zelnick said the game will leave beta in the current quarter, but did not give an exact date. To the surprise of the players, testing ended today, May 14, along with the release of a major update with new tasks, events, poker and other innovations, which you can learn more about .
βWe are very excited about the prospects for Red Dead Online,β Zelnick said. β This quarter it will be released from βbetaβ, and we are preparing updates. From experience, we know that these games are gaining momentum gradually. Red Dead Online is way ahead at the same stage of development. She shows great results. As for Red Dead Redemption 2, we were able to sell another million copies - and that's without lowering the price. This is above our expectations. Considering that it, like Grand Theft Auto V, has a Metacritic score of 97, this pleases us even more.
Global shipments of Grand Theft Auto V reached 110 million copies. The hundred millionth milestone game, the console versions of which were released in September 2013, in the fall of 2018.
Take-Two also spoke about the sales of other games and series:
- Shipments of the basketball simulator NBA 2K19 worldwide exceeded 9 million copies - about the same result in the same time period was achieved by the previous part. However, the newest performs better due to higher income from micropayments (it grew by 79% in the last quarter and by 45% for the whole year);
- total shipments of games in the Borderlands series amounted to 43 million copies. 20 million of them were , which, even more than six years after its release, is played by about a million unique users every month. publishing house that Borderlands 3 will overtake it in sales;
- sales of the Civilization series far exceed Take-Two's expectations. The company especially noted the indicators of the version for Nintendo Switch and add-ons (the newest, Gathering Storm, was "the biggest and most successful" in franchise history).
In fiscal year 2020, which began on April 1, 2019 and will end on March 31, 2020, Take-Two expects to generate $2,7-2,8 billion in revenue and $447-481 million in net revenue. The largest revenue (60%) should come from 2K Games, which will release Borderlands 3 and the new NBA 2K. Another 10% is predicted to come from Private Division, publisher of the prehistoric survival game Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey by the creative director of the first Assassin's Creed titles Patrice DΓ©silets and the RPG The Outer Worlds by Obsidian Entertainment. The same percentage of revenue is expected from Rockstar Games.
Source: 3dnews.ru