Konami's reportedly earned a good chunk of change in the past six months thanks to its stable of F2P mobile earners and Kojima's last Metal Gear, which shipped 5M copies in the past two months.
Konami's latest earnings report reveals a company enjoying an uptick in its fortunes, thanks in large part to its games business.
The company reportedly amassed 12.4 billion yen (~$102.7 million USD) in profits during the six-month period ending September 30th, nearly doubling the 7.4 billion yen (~$61.3 million USD) profit it earned during the same period last year.
The vast majority of that profit was generated by Konami's Digital Entertainment business, which encompasses both free-to-play mobile hits like baseball game Jikkyou Pawafuru Puroyakyu (reportedly downloaded 16 million times in the 10 months since it launched) and PC/console games, most notably Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
Konami claims to have shipped 5 million copies of The Phantom Pain since it launched on September 1st. Roughly a month later Metal Gear chief Hideo Kojima reportedly left the company, leaving the future of the franchise -- historically a significant cash cow for Konami -- in question to almost everyone but Konami, which has previously outlined plans to hire new staff and make another Metal Gear.
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