Nexon surpassed 3 trillion won in sales for the first time since its establishment based on the popularity of new mobile games and PC games last year.
Nexon (CEO Owen Mahoney) last year’s consolidated sales of KRW 3,131.06 billion (29.3 billion yen, KRW 168.4 per 100 yen exchange rate on a quarterly basis) and operating profit of KRW 1.11 trillion (111.5 billion KRW) Yen) announced on the 9th.
This is an 18% increase in both sales and operating profit compared to the same period last year. Sales exceeded 3 trillion won for the first time since establishment.
Nexon’s growth was driven by the mobile game sector. Since the mobile game V4 released in 2019 has been a long-term success, the country of the winds: Yan and Kartrider Rush Plus have been successively affected.
Accordingly, Nexon’s mobile game sales grew by 60% compared to the same period of the previous year, and the proportion of sales expanded to 33%, the company explained.
PC games also continued to have a solid track record from last year.
MapleStory, which celebrated its 17th anniversary last year, led sales growth in both domestic and global markets. Sales of this game recorded a high growth rate of 98% compared to the same period last year in Korea, and also in North America, Europe, and Asia and South America increased 134% and 85%, respectively.
Dungeon & Fighter also recorded a 55% increase in sales compared to the same period last year in Korea, with continuous new dungeon updates and major character level expansion.
FIFA Online 4 led the sales growth of the PC game division by introducing new contents such as clubs and training coaches, and various contents such as the addition of icon classes and balance reorganization through two large-scale updates in summer and winter.
Nexon plans to target the market with IP expansion and new works in various genres in order to further grow into a global company.
The company further strengthened its competitiveness with new titles in various genres such as Cart Rider for this year’s PC and console devices: Mabinogi Mobile using Drift and Mabinogi IP, a PC game, and new films such as Kurtzpel and Konosva, which were released at G-Star last year. do.
Earlier this month, Nexon announced that it would improve salary increases and incentives to strengthen organizational power.
Nexon decided to increase the starting salary for new recruits to 50 million won for the development workers and 45 million won for the non-development workers, and to increase the annual salaries of the incumbent employees by 8 million won. In addition to the annual salary increase, organizations and individuals that have made great achievements are also paid the highest level of incentive pay.
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In addition, in order to accelerate the recruitment of excellent talent, the recruitment of new and experienced positions, which was suspended since 2018, will resume within the first half of the year, and aggressive investments in various fields such as new development projects, AI research, and business development will continue.
“Last year, Nexon has achieved super-differential performance by advocating choice and concentration,” said Kang Min-hyuk, head of Nexon’s communications division. We plan to make a leap forward,” he said.