Lollipop Chainsaw RePop’s sales greatly exceeded expectations, parent company claims
Lollipop Chainsaw RePop sold much better than expected, resulting in an improved financial forecast for parent company Extreme.
The company has revised its consolidated earnings forecast for its fiscal year ending March 2025, crediting the Lollipop Chainsaw remaster as the main reason for this.
As reported by Gamebiz, Extreme – which is the parent company of Lollipop Chainsaw RePop developer Dragami Games – revised its sales forecast to ¥11.65 billion ($75.4 million), up from ¥11 billion ($74 million). It also revised its net profit to 1.08 billion ($6.9 million), up from ¥710 million ($4.6 million).
In all, it forecasts a sales increase of 5.9%, an operating profit increase of 50%, an ordinary profit increase of 52.4% and a net profit increase of 52.1% for the year, compared to its previous forecast.
The company says the main reason for this revision is that sales of Lollipop Chainsaw RePop, which was released in September, have significantly exceeded expected sales, though it doesn’t appear to have specified exactly how many copies this means, or what the original expectations were.
Dragami Games announced in September that the game had sold 100,000 in its first week since release.
The digital version of Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP for PS4 and Xbox One will be released on December 2!
— DRAGAMI GAMES 【OFFICIAL】 (@Dragami_Games) <a target="_blank" rel=«noopener» class=«link-external» href=«https://twitter.com/Dragami_Games/status/1856654560527528152?ref_src=» https:>November 13, 2024
Made without input from either original creative director Suda51 or co-writer James Gunn, Lollipop Chainsaw RePop has two modes – an Original Mode designed to play like the 2012 version released on Xbox 360 and PS3, and a new RePop mode which is less violent and features pop-art damage effects.
Dragami also announced today that the digital PS4 and Xbox One versions of RePop will be released on December 2.
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