Sega Sammy posts profitable third quarter, Vanquish moves 820K

by Ben Gilbert on Feb 4th 2011 5:00PM

Sega Sammy's financial results for the nine months ending December 31, 2010 showed marked upswings in overall sales and profit for the company. While the majority of money came through its pachinko and amusement arm, game publishing saw ¥67.4 billion ($826 million) in revenue and ¥2.8 billion ($34.3 million) in profit -- both notable increases since the company's last check-in.

Hidden among the many, many financial numbers was news that Platinum Games' fourth effort, Vanquish, had sold 820,000 copies since its release in late October, while Sonic Colors had moved a whopping 1,850,000 by the end of 2010. That's alotta hedgehog! The majority of the company's overall sales took place in Europe (owing to sales of Football Manager 2011), with the US following closely behind and Japan in a distant third.

Source: Sega

Tags: ds, earnings, financial, fy-2011, microsoft, nintendo, playstation, ps3, q3, sales, sega, sega-sammy, sega-sammy-holdings, sonic-colors, vanquish, wii, xbox

Reader Comments (45)

Vanquish was awesome. sort but awesome i hope for second helping!

@DokiDokiBawanga sort=short.

Hardest Platinum Trophy ever...

@akmdpc

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 says hello...

(and I have Vanquish platinum trophy)

@RagingStormX DMC4 aint no walk in the park either.

@Jack Kevorkian

Last I remembered Devil May Cry 4 for the PS3 didn't have trophy support...only achievments for Xbox.

@RagingStormX

I guess I should say hardest platinum that I've encountered. I looked up Ninja Gaiden S2 and it had a 10/10 difficulty with 150+++ hr playing time (Vanquish was a 9.5/10). For some reason, that's not appealing at all to me.

@Jack Kevorkian

seriously... i thought Heaven and Hell mode was ridiculous... and then i found out about Hell and Hell mode. enemies have 250% health and aggression, you have three lives to beat each level, and die in one hit. that's just nuts.

@akmdpc Not really. I'd have it if it weren't for the hidden trophy, which requires beating all the Tactical Challenges (the last couple are a real bitch to do). None of the others really gave me too much trouble, it's not like you have to beat the game on God Hard or anything.

@SuperfluousMoniker

The challenges are what make achieving the Platinum very difficult. Every other trophy is pretty simple and/or straight forward. I spent over three weeks playing NOTHING but Challenge 6 before finally beating it. Also broke a dualshock and my keyboard attachment out of frustration. Very expensive mistake.

@SuperfluousMoniker You might not have to, but dammit, I'm going to try! :D

This makes me happy. I was fearing Vanquish might not have sold even close to as many copies as it deserved. Perhaps we may see another one yet.

@Ninjasoup I was thinking less than 500k. I am encouraged by those numbers. Two bonafide hits for Platinum let's see some more!

@Ninjasoup - I was thinking Vanquish sold a lot less than the 820k. I was thinking maybe half a million.

Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed Vanquish - there was actually a decent length to the campaign as well - but I hadn't heard much of anyone buying it, nor my gamer friends putting much interest into it.

Glad to here it did well in sales. Let's hope it translates to a sequel, but not before Bayonetta 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V2mE_QCpzU

I need to get back to this game

Its great to see Vanquish selling as well as it did (at least to me it looks good). I absolutely loved the game and that pretty much solidified my resolve to buy pretty much anything Platinum puts out.

Kind of surprised that it doubled up Enlsaved though. I prefer Enslaved but they're both good games.

I Love Platinum Games. :)

Well deserved, Vanquish was a super blast, great game Platinium keep up the good work.

I'm loving Vanquish. It's like a rich dessert. I throw it in and get 10 minutes of bombastic wild gameplay and then walk away a happy man.

I don't anticipate a sequel but this will be one of those games that a few people look back on and they remember with distinct fondness.

If you haven't tried it, give it a shot.

@Truant

I know what you mean... its crazy for the amount of awesomeness that is needed just to beat the last challenge (6) in that game. High octane from start to finish.... God I loved playing that game. Vanquish FTMFW baby!!

let just hope it sell 2 million by the end of 2011 because they deserve it,

I absolutely hate shooters like Gears of War, CoD, and Halo, but Vanquish for whatever reason... I loved it. One of my favorites of last year actually.

@Shogan

Funny, those are my favorite shooters, but Vanquish was just not my cup of tea.

@ItsameMatt03
It's because you have horrible taste

@ItsameMatt03

Maybe it's a shooter for people who don't like shooters. :)

I sometimes want Sega to fail...but games like Vanquish make me super tight pants happy.

love love loved Vanquish. Needs Multiplayer Co-op and another 3 hours to the campaign in a sequel.

@FakeJamaican Local co-op. Lag would make this game impossible to enjoy.

Great news! Vanquish is one of my favorite games of 2010. I really hope that we get a sequel!

Good for them being a new IP and all .......but it deserves way more in sales. Kane and Lynch 2 sold 1m+...and that game is total shit in comparision to Vanquish.

madworld sold around 600k and was deemed a failure, wonder why :/

This will obviously sell more, it's that much more awesome too :P

Just imagine how many copies they would have sold if there were advertisements for it!?!?!?! That 800k+ is purely word of mouth.

@Anticrawl Are you kidding me? I couldn't go anywhere online around Vanquish's release date without seeing an ad for it somewhere. I think what kinda put a damper on its sales was coming out on the same day as New Vegas.

@DoktorSleepless

I don't really count Gametrailers ads and blog postings on gaming blogs proper advertisement. Only a small percentage of gamers actually take time to look for and follow new games on the internet. They need commercials and posters bro, and to have had a less busy looking screenshot on the dashboard.

P* owns my soul. VANQUISH was absolutely amazing... you only see action that frenetically fast paced chaos in pre-planned cutscenes.

I can't believe people said BioWare was Studio of the Year 2010 due to releasing an awesome sequel to an established series when Platinum Games released two new IPs - one pushing the Action genre forward for the first time since DMC and the other putting you in the middle of absolute chaos - that were nothing short of amazing.

Hopefully, those numbers will encourage Sega to continue to put out good Sonic games like Colors.

Perhaps if all the little children stopped buying the same bloody games every year and took a chance on something different, Vanquish would get double those sales.
"Alas, poor Vanquish! I played it, Horatio, a game of infinite
jest, of most excellent fancy."

Vanquish 2 better happen.

Good for Vanquish! I still have to pick that when I finish the Dead Spaces.

I just finished this on hard today (2nd playthrough)...still 11 trophies to go for the plat. Can say that VANQUISH is in my top 10 of all time. Pure fun.

Vanquish is a great game. But it shows the slant in gaming priorities when the Sonic/Wii game sells a million more units yet isn't the focus of the article.

Good news. I bought this and Enslaved hoping both would well - it seems more people need to get both.

@Ducarta or *sell*

Vanquish is a hell of a game. I love it!

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Sega Sammy posts profitable third quarter, Vanquish moves 820K

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