Nacon's third-quarter sales fell 10.3% to €52.9 million, the company said in January 2025

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Nacon reported consolidated sales of €52.9 million for the third quarter of its 2024/25 financial year, October to December, down 10.3% from the same quarter a year earlier, in a release dated Jan 20, 2025. The company marked the quarter's and the nine months' figures as unaudited. In millions of euros, sales for the nine months from April 1 to December 31, 2024 were 129.9, up 2.5% from 126.7 a year earlier.1^,2^,3^,4^,5^,6

Nacon summed up the quarter as a high base for comparison in gaming and ongoing progress in accessories. Gaming sales were €25.4 million, down 23.7% from a year earlier. Sales of new games, which Nacon called catalogue sales, were €9.8 million, down 52.9%, and the company said there had been no major new releases in the period. It said only one racing game, MXGP: The Official Motocross Videogame, was released, whereas the year-earlier period had been boosted by what it called the exceptional success of Robocop: Rogue City and the releases of Cricket 24: Official Game of The Ashes and Gangs of Sherwood. Back catalogue sales, meaning games released in earlier years, rose 24.5% to €15.6 million, which the company said vindicated its strategy.7^,8^,9^,10^,11

Accessories sales rose 5.3% to €25.2 million, with RIG headsets and REVOLUTION 5 PRO controllers still selling strongly in the USA and Australia, the company said. It said the COBRA seat, the DRIVE PRO STAND, the REVOSIM range and the XBOX Revolution X Unlimited controller had been delayed and would now be released in 2025. Nacon also said it planned to build a production plant for gaming accessories at Lauwin-Planque in France, which it said would be operational later in 2025.12^,13^,14

Nacon said its fourth-quarter release schedule would be slightly busier, with three games: the sports title Rugby25, the adventure Dragonkin on early access and the simulation Ambulance Life. It added that Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown already had more than 500,000 players. For 2024/25 as a whole, the company then expected a slight increase in sales and said operating income could decrease from the previous financial year, citing postponed games and delayed accessories launches.15^,16^,17

The release said Nacon then expected sales to show strong growth in the first half of 2025/26. It pointed to around 10 new games, with the main ones due to be revealed at the NACON Connect event on March 6, and to the arrival of the Nintendo Switch 2, for which it said it already had compatible games and a full range of accessories.18^,19^,20

Nacon's annual report for the year to Mar 31, 2025 later showed revenue of €167.95 million and operating income of €1.11 million, against €167.71 million and €20.88 million the year before.21^,22^,23^,24

The AMF, France's financial markets regulator, listed the release under inside information, the heading for what a listed company publishes because it may move its share price. We hold the text of this release, 2 pages in English, and none of the documents it refers to.25^,26^,27^,28