Source: http://andriasang.com/comyvc/

Nippon Ichi outperformed its expectations for the first half of the fiscal year (4/1 to 9/30), reporting today sales of 1,183 million yen and net earnings of 122 million yen. It had previously forecast a net loss of 10 million yen.

In its earning report, the company mentioned strong North American performance for Disgaea 4. Domestically, following the recovery of PlayStation Network, download content sales for Disgaea 4 were strong.

Outside of strong performance for its video game publishing business, the company also made note of royalties from its license business, where it, for instance, licenses its characters to other companies. It made particular mention of royalties from the "Nippon Ichi-shan" character in Idea Factory's Neptune mk2.

Nippon Ichi also mentioned strong performance from what it refers to as "other businesses." This includes management of amusement facilities and game development. The Nippon Ichi-developed Uta no Prince-sama Repeat, released by Broccoli on PSP in August, saw increased orders thanks to the airing of the Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000% anime in July.

Despite the improved midterm results, Nippon Ichi kept its annual forecast figures the same, at 2,288 million yen sales and net earnings of 59 million yen. The reason it did not update these figures is because it said there are still some elements about upcoming products that aren't finalized.

You can see Nippon Ichi's full earnings statement here (PDF, Japanese).

Glad their doing aight.

Glad to see them back in green colour ;) They deserve it for what they do.

I wonder why they haven't talked about Atelier Totori though.

It's probably because they're just the publisher.

Alot of the niche JRPG makers have been doing well Idea factory has had record profits 2 years running and Gust have be doing well as well.

good news. glad somebody's making profit.

after THQ and Sonys losses i wasn't to sure anyone pub. would report profits

Awesome they're doing alright. They're one of my favorite companies and they deserve it, since their dedication to their fanbase goes a long way.

Pretty much every major Japanese publisher made profit (Konami, Namco Bandai, Capcom, Square Enix). On western side I remember that Activision made profit. EA, THQ and Ubisoft made all loss. I really wonder if  ''Japanese game industry'' is dying side ever looks at financial reports. Japanese publishers are a lot more profitable (Yes they ship a lot less games but actually make money out of them).

They would make more money if not for their hatred of the X360.

This. It totally makes sense. I mean, the prime console for jrpgs is the 360, right?

I mean, they don't know what they're missing.