With the 2017 fiscal year over for the SEGA Sammy group, it released a public statement on its full year, which ended on March 31, 2017.
The company reported that its revenue reached ¥3.23 billion (yen), which represented 414% more than the forecast for the full year. You can see the full report on the official website by clicking here.
In other SEGA Sammy-related news, Casino.org also reported that, because of the Japanese National Diet's move to legalize commercial casinos, gambling companies such as MGM Resorts and Hard Rock intend to take advantage of the opportunities created by this newly passed law, which includes the involvement of the company responsible for Sonic the Hedgehog.
Read the statement released by Haruki Satomi, president of SEGA Sammy:
“We definitely want a bigger market share in Japan... the entire casino resort,” revealed Haruki Satomi, president of SEGA Sammy, during a conference in Tokyo. “We hope to have the largest share of that market. We are preparing for it.”
SEGA Sammy is one of the largest manufacturers of pachinko machines in Japan and is now more likely to expand its business into gambling. For those unfamiliar, SEGA Sammy is a group that encompasses several companies: SEGA handles games and its internal studios/distributors, such as Atlus or Creative Assembly, while Sammy handles pachinko and related products, an incredibly successful sector in Japan.
