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Nexon Q4 2025 Earnings Letter
Nexon’s 2025 fiscal performance underscores the successful execution of its IP Growth Initiative, which focuses on scaling established franchises while diversifying its portfolio through new, globally competitive titles.
- Nexon achieved record-high annual revenue of ¥475.1 billion in 2025, representing a 6% year-over-year increase.
- The launch of ARC Raiders drove significant engagement with 14 million units sold in 15 weeks, peaking at 960,000 concurrent users in January 2026.
- Nexon maintains a strong financial position with over ¥100 billion in operating cash flow for the eighth consecutive year and a cash balance exceeding ¥800 billion.
Nexon Releases Earnings for Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2025
Nexon reported record-breaking financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, driven by a strategic IP growth initiative that balanced the expansion of legacy franchises with successful new global launches.
- Nexon achieved record full-year 2025 revenue of ¥475.1 billion, a 6% year-over-year increase, with operating income holding steady at ¥124.0 billion.
- The new title ARC Raiders was a major growth driver, selling over 14 million units within 15 weeks and reaching a peak of 960,000 concurrent users.
- The 22-year-old MapleStory franchise reached record annual revenue with 43% year-over-year growth, helping to offset a 21% decline in the Dungeon&Fighter franchise.
January 2026's Top-Selling New Steam Games Revealed
The primary objective is to analyze the performance of new video game releases on Steam during January 2026, while providing broader context on industry trends, console hardware, and platform discovery.
- The extraction shooter ARC Raiders led January 2026 Steam unit sales with 2.1 million copies, while Counter-Strike 2 remained the platform's top revenue generator.
- New Steam releases saw strong performance from Quarantine Zone: The Last Check (650,000+ units), StarRupture (500,000+ units), and LORT (250,000+ units).
- PlayStation 5 holiday sales reached 8.1 million units, outperforming the Switch 2 during the same period.
January PlayStation Sales Report: 2026
The January 2026 PlayStation sales analysis highlights a market defined by the dominance of annual sports franchises, the sustained performance of legacy intellectual property, and the successful transition of casual players to the current hardware generation.
- ARC Raiders continues to dominate, selling 938,000 units on PlayStation in January and reaching over 15 million total copies sold across all platforms.
- FC 26 maintains a massive PlayStation player base of 15.4 million, with 86% of its users now on PS5, signaling a significant shift of casual players from the PS4 generation.
- Ghost of Yotei has become a major first-party success for Sony with 4 million units sold to date, outperforming Ghost of Tsushima's performance over the same period.
Monthly Ranking: January 2026
The January 2026 industry analysis highlights the continued market dominance of ARC Raiders, which secured the top position for both revenue and volume on Steam for the third consecutive month.
- For the third consecutive month, ARC Raiders remained the top-selling title across Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam, reaching 10 million monthly active users in January 2026, an 8% increase over December.
- ARC Raiders is currently outpacing Battlefield 6 in launch-aligned player counts, with 27.2% of its November 2025 Steam wishlisters converting into purchasers as of early February 2026.
- Low-cost co-op titles continue to drive high volume, with PEAK (1.3 million units), R.E.P.O. (1.1 million units), and RV There Yet? (752K units) collectively generating nearly $300 million in revenue since their 2025 launches.
Top Games on Live Streaming for 2025
The 2025 live-streaming landscape was characterized by the continued dominance of established intellectual properties, even as the industry faced significant internal challenges such as widespread developer layoffs.
- League of Legends maintained the top spot in live-streaming viewership with 1.95 billion hours watched, reflecting a 4% year-over-year growth.
- First-person shooters dominated the genre landscape with 4.6 billion total hours watched, with Counter-Strike alone accounting for 28% of that figure.
- ARC Raiders was the most successful 2025 launch title, generating 129 million hours watched within its first 30 days.
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Consolidated Financial Results for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 [IFRS]
Nexon Group achieved record-breaking consolidated revenue of ¥475.1 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, representing a 6.5% year-on-year increase.
- Nexon achieved record-breaking consolidated revenue of ¥475.1 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, a 6.5% year-on-year increase driven by the Korea segment and PC online titles like Dungeon&Fighter and MapleStory.
- Profit attributable to owners declined 31.7% to ¥92.1 billion, impacted by foreign exchange losses, higher marketing and royalty expenses, and an ¥8.6 billion impairment loss on equity method investments.
- Nexon projects aggressive Q1 2026 growth, forecasting revenue between ¥139.7 billion and ¥164.0 billion, representing a 32.1% to 44.0% year-on-year increase.
The Steam Games That Sold the Most Copies Over the Holidays
Steam experienced a record-breaking December in 2025, generating $1.6 billion in gross revenue from over 100 million players.
- Steam generated $1.6 billion in gross revenue during December 2025, marking a 22.7% increase over December 2024 and surpassing the previous record set in December 2020.
- ARC Raiders led Steam sales between December 21 and January 4 with 1.2 million copies sold, contributing to the title reaching 12 million total copies sold and 7 million on Steam.
- Detroit: Become Human shifted 993,000 copies during the holiday period, driven by a record-low price of $4 that helped the title surpass $150 million in total Steam revenue.
November 2025's Top New Steam Games Revealed
This analysis examines the performance of new video game releases on Steam and major console platforms during November 2025.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is underperforming significantly, with sales metrics showing a decline of more than 50% compared to its predecessor.
- The shooter genre is experiencing intense competition, as titles like ARC Raiders and Battlefield 6 draw player counts away from established franchises.
- November 2025 saw a cooling market trend characterized by a lack of high-volume breakout hits compared to the performance levels seen in October.
November's Best-Selling Steam Games
The November 2025 market analysis identifies the top-performing titles on Steam, highlighting a significant trend toward independent game dominance.
- ARC Raiders was the top-selling Steam game in November, moving 3.5 million copies and reaching 7.7 million total units sold across all platforms to date.
- The indie title RV There Yet? sold 1.1 million copies in November, bringing its total sales to over 4 million units, driven largely by streamer engagement and a low $7.99 price point.
- Escape from Duckov outperformed the Steam release of Escape from Tarkov, selling 3 million copies and generating $38 million in revenue in 17 days, compared to Tarkov's 400,000 units and $14 million in revenue over the same period.
How The Last Caretaker Journeyed to >100k Early Access Sales in a Month
The survival-crafting title The Last Caretaker achieved significant commercial success during its initial month of Early Access, selling over 120,000 copies.
- Channel37's 'The Last Caretaker' sold over 120,000 units in its first month of Early Access, launching on November 6, 2025, at a $35 price point.
- The title achieved high player satisfaction with a 5.6% refund rate and a median playtime exceeding 15 hours, despite the technical limitations typical of an Early Access release.
- The game maintained strong engagement with a peak of 10,000 concurrent users and a sustained base of 5,000 concurrent users weeks after launch.
Alinea Analytics: Our Most Requested Estimates
Alinea Analytics provides market intelligence for the video game industry, focusing on sales and engagement estimates across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms.
- Alinea Analytics maintains a 10% margin of error for PC sales estimates based on an analysis of 754 publicly reported milestones.
- Recent accuracy checks against publisher-reported figures show high precision, including a 0.1% variance for Nexon's 'ARC Raiders' (4M reported) and a 0.2% variance for CD Projekt's 'Cyberpunk 2077' (35M reported).
- Bloodborne has reached 16M total players, with 9.3M copies sold on PlayStation and nearly 7M additional users accessing the title via PlayStation Plus.
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