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Kakao Games’ new game lineup. Photo courtesy of Kakao Games<\/p>\nKakao Games’ new game lineup. Photo courtesy of Kakao Games<\/p>\n
Kakao Games (293490.KQ) widened its first-quarter loss as the absence of hit new titles and declining revenue from existing games weighed on its performance.<\/p>\n
Kakao Games said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that preliminary first-quarter revenue on a consolidated basis came in at approximately 82.9 billion won ($60 million), with an operating loss of about 25.5 billion won ($18 million). Revenue fell roughly 33% year-on-year and 16% quarter-on-quarter. The operating loss widened by about 94.51% from 12.4 billion won a year earlier. Net loss reached 39.5 billion won.<\/p>\n
By segment, PC and online game revenue rose about 4% year-on-year but fell roughly 7% quarter-on-quarter to approximately 27.9 billion won. Mobile game revenue came in at around 55 billion won, down about 43% year-on-year and 20% quarter-on-quarter.<\/p>\n
The company said declining revenue from existing live titles and the absence of contributions from new releases weighed on the results.<\/p>\n
Kakao Games plans to enhance the quality of its second-quarter new title lineup. A recent small-scale focus group test (FGT) for the 2.5D MMORPG “Project OQ” (working title) received top-tier evaluations for its key features, including 2D pixel art and worldview. The company is also stepping up quality verification of titles in development, with a closed beta test of the major online RPG “ArcheAge Chronicles” scheduled for June.<\/p>\n
In addition, the company plans to roll out a diverse slate of new titles across mobile, PC, and console platforms, including the large-scale MMORPG “Odin Q,” the strategy adventure RPG “Dungeon Arise,” the open-world zombie survival simulator “God Save Birmingham,” and the subculture nurturing simulation “Project C” (working title).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kakao Games’ new game lineup. Photo courtesy of Kakao Games Kakao Games (293490.KQ) widened its first-quarter loss as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[622],"tags":[3298,827,1821,3297,3301,3300,1988,3299,462],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kakao","tag-archeage-chronicles","tag-kakao","tag-kakao-games","tag-korean-gaming-industry","tag-mmorpg","tag-mobile-game-revenue","tag-operating-loss","tag-project-oq","tag-q1-earnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}