[Sad news] Sony's "Palworld Entertainment" reports final loss of 42 million yen for fiscal year ending March 2025

Palworld Entertainment's final loss for the fiscal year ending March 2025 was 42 million yen. This was revealed in the "Financial Results Announcement" published in the "Official Gazette" on June 30th.

The company is a joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment (SME), Aniplex, and Pocket Pair.

It was established in July 2024 to promote the domestic and international licensing business for Pocket Pair's game "Palworld."

https://gamebiz.jp/news/408257

>>714609310 (OP)
>$290,000 loss

That's nothing.

>>714609310 (OP)
I thought the game was selling like hot cakes, like ever better than pokemon

>>714610482
1) its still in development and thus drains money
2) if you bought the game, you dont buy it again. Only minecraft is able to get away with that. And Skyrim.
3) its a steam game, not a console mainstream one. Its appeal outside the asian market is "bootleg pokemon" so merch are dustcollectors

>>714610830
>so merch are dustcollectors
There's merch?

>>714609310 (OP)
so this is why the schizos are going nuts.

>>714609310 (OP)
palworld lost 300k bucks?
this is revenge

>>714609310 (OP)
ONONONONO! NOT LIKE THIS FELLOW PALKEKS!

>>714609310 (OP)
HAHAHAH YES, YEEEEEEEEEES KNEEL BEFORE YOUR NINTENGODS. YOU'RE LUCKY THEY LET YOU KEEP YOUR LIVES, RATHER THAN BE THEIR SLAVES.

>>714609310 (OP)
>Palworld Merch

why would anyone want to buy any of that ugly crap?

>Sony banking everything on an unfinished UE asset flip game where not even a single idea is original in any capacity
>Sells at a loss because it's soulless trash

>>714609310 (OP)
Holy shit. It's true.

>>714609310 (OP)

>>714612618
companies don't like losing money. doesn't matter how much it is.

>>714610324
Indeed. They bought Firewalk Studios, and saw Concord become this generation's ET for the Atari when they were expecting it to be the next Star Wars. They bought Bungie for billions and got nothing out of it but a dwindlling and tighter pocketed playerbase for Destiny, and a plagiarized embarassment in Marathon. They entered in huge exclusitivity deals with third parties like Square Enix and got Forspoken and the lowest selling mainline Final Fantasy in decades. Etc. Etc.

Yet despite all that, they still have made more profit in the ps5 era than they have in the previous 4 generations combined. This loss is but a pebble before on the tsunami tidal wave that is Playstation.

>>714612684
>Looks at Sony
>Looks at Square Enix
Ehhhhh...

>>714612741
You can argue that ET didn't do as bad as reported as it was made in 6 months by one single dev.

>>714609310 (OP)
>this is the Pokemon killer I was telling you about

>>714612818
you think they are okay losing money?

>>714611115
Yes. There's a Chillet masturbator for example.

>>714609310 (OP)
This means big daddy Sony quits and Nintendo can nuke Pocketpair.

>>714612941
Honestly? Yes, BlackRock probably gives them more than their losses to keep their agency up

>>714613128
never start your own business anon.

Sony? Wasn't this thing MS-sponsored or something? Wasn't it on gamepass?

>>714613128
>>714613204
I've always wondered why people who believe in the "free blackrock money" thing don't just start their own business to get their own free money.

>>714613292
They backstabbed Xbox the first chance they got.

>>714609310 (OP)
>Every single Sony vidya-related investment is flopping
I see now why they want to get into the PC/steam market. Pretty soon Nintendo will be the only console player left.

>>714609310 (OP)
>42 million yen
OH NO!
>Equates to 300k
Anyway!

>>714613656
a loss is a loss anon and what makes you think they won't lose more money?

>>714612947
Unofficial merch doesn't count Still gonna need a link tho

>>714612841
ET sank the entire american video game industry. We had 5 major console/micro PC makers(Atari, Matel, Coleco, Commodore and Magnavox, not to mention the dozen or so other consoles )in '82, since we've been only able to maintain 1 American console at a time and that console with the sole exception of the Xbox 360 has been dramatically behind it's Japanese counterparts.
Concord is meme material but it's hasn't put a dent in consumers confidence video games

>>714613476
I would do the same tbhqa and I'm a Halo fanboy

>>714612941
Not okay, per se, but this amount? They are probably not too bothered by it.

>>714609310 (OP)
>The company is a joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment (SME), Aniplex, and Pocket Pair.
>It was established in July 2024 to promote the domestic and international licensing business for Pocket Pair's game "Palworld."
I have no idea what this means.

>>714613989
they tried to make a "The Pokemon Company"

>>714613989
It's basically like how Pokemon is being managed by The Pokemon Company; a joint company of Nintendo, Gamefreak, and Creatures

>>714613989
They're selling plush animals and making a Palworld anime by Animax, Sony Music essentially owns all anime production and worldwide distribution. And they're looking to turn Palworld into a worldwide phenomenon like how OLM 's Pokémon anime boosted that IP.

>>714614886
How are they gonna do that when you can't even throw a not-pokeball anymore nor can you ride on pals?

>>714609310 (OP)
OHNONONONONONONONONONONONONONO PALSISSIES WE LOST!

>>714615083
You can throw balls, and ride pals, I know shartendo fags don't play games but get your facts checked.

>>714615580
May we see it?

Fly and glide on a pal without mods right now.

>>714610324
>>714611319
>>714612618
>>714613656
Funny how you focus on this cope when Pocketpair has HQ in Japan and pays all their bills in yen. No, the taxes and electricity bills in Japan didn't get 50% cheaper when yen lost 50% of value compared to the dollar. Quite the opposite.

>>714615083
They'll TOSS Palcubes and DRIVE Pals, not ride them like a horse, simple, and legally distinct.
The Pal push is China focused

>>714614886
If they're looking to do that then they're failing miserably.

>>714615913
*Pal-bricks

>>714615898
You can fly on pals too, what you can't do specifically is use them as gliders and summon them away from you.

You still throw balls to capture, and can ride land, water and flying pals.

>>714615580
>>714616157
So all the whining about the lawsuit was literally nothing?

>>714610482
15 million on pc. You're way too late to try and tortanic it

>>714616390
Is just pokefags exaggerating, the changes have minimal effect in the game.

>>714616390
The issue the injunction that Nintendo is seeking.

palbros it's fucking over we're cooked. Pocketpair should jump ship and release their next sca- game and hopefully not piss off nintendo this time

can you go to the big tree in the middle of the map now? I remember it blueballing me hard

>>714616995
didn't they stop working on their Hollow Knight clone?

>>714617016
I would not expect to get there until the game is at 1.0.

>>714610482
Sony's partnership is for merch, music, and anime you dumbass. Pocketpair game sales go straight to Pocketpair

>>714617135
fug
guess I won't touch the game again until then

>>714609310 (OP)
>loss of 42M Yen
>traduced to 290K bucks
>FISCAL YEAR
seems normal, that's how commercial taxes work for you

>>714609310 (OP)
wut? i thought that game had millions of players?

>>714617310
I'm replaying the game for the terraria update and I think it is more fun now, a lot of new stuff, I only played the original version before.

>>714617472
Had. A year ago

>>714617602
I can imagine, but that still feels like my main goal, I'll let the content pile like I do with most games
earlier this year I played Cobblemon after waiting for over a year and I wish I had waited another year (the mod is great, it's just that a lot of content is being made right now, especially by the community)

>>714609310 (OP)
Are the sex mods as good as everyone claimed the would be now?

>>714612179
But enough about Gen 9 Pokemon merch.

>>714609310 (OP)
>Tendies think 290k is a lot of much money.

>>714610324
>>714611319
>>714612618
>>714613656
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>>714618156
Why so desperate?

>>714617095
They're still working on it, and despite the Tumblr outrage, it's not a hollow knight clone. That would be Deviator.

>>714611319
>this is revenge
KEK i had forgotten about that one.

Has there been any updates on the lawsuit? Or is that going to take years?

>>714619575
Yeah, Nintendo won.
The game was deleted from Steam and the devs and their families have to now pay reparations to Black Lives Matter for the next 65 years.

>>714620148
I guess not. I shouldn't have asked.

>Sony
The publisher and developer of the game is Pocketpair though. Where does Sony fit in there?

>>714613656
It's a bad thing no matter how you spin it. If I paid all that money for pocketpal I'd expect a return on investment.

>>714621615
They just expected free money.