The entertainment industry is one of the many activities that a person of any age can enjoy during their free time. Anime, among them, is a category that really understood decades ago how to conquer the world’s population. Undoubtedly, a medium that generates a total sensation, which takes animation to another level, by the hand of Japan and great exponents of the genre, but… What if I told you that it has been in a constant stagnation for a long time?
A video game company outsells most anime!
From different reports made in the country of Japan, it is mentioned that although anime had a good economic recovery impulse, after the strong negative impact on its sales due to Covid-19, which generated delays in the series because of less work with presential, the total earnings have not improved enough. As a result, a single video game company that you probably know by the name of “Square Enix” is now outperforming anime in terms of numbers.
Although in case you don’t know them for some reason or another, “Square Enix” is a very popular company from Japan that saw its origin in the video game industry, for giving us some of the most legendary titles in history. Some of the many successes that we can mention of them are… the Final Fantasy saga, Nier, Kingdom Hearts or Dragon Quest to give some examples that meet a really high level of relevance among the gaming community.
Well, according to an annual financial record that is usually made by the company Square Enix, some facts of great interest for this topic are confirmed. One of those important facts to mention may be the sales, which in this case, they are looking to amount up to 3.6 billion yen. While if we go to the anime industry, even if we put together a large part of the multiple production companies that exist, it only reaches an expected number of 2,704 million yen.
And anyway, in reality they do not seem to be bad numbers at all, but the controversy around the case arises because many people in the community, consider that according to such data, anime, as such, seems to be stagnant, or not advancing enough according to them, especially when considering the scope it has in the population and making a comparison with the company “Square Enix“.
It is of utmost importance to mention that even though the anime industry has a smaller amount of sales than a single video game company, such as Square Enix or the rest of the industry as such, it should be considered that production costs tend to be lower in animation production than in the extensive development of a game, so it is hardly a case that can be compared to whether or not the anime industry has the same amount of sales as a single video game company, such as Square Enix or the rest of the industry as such.
