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CTOnews.com February 12 news, South Korea's Krafton has announced their latest financial results, 2022 revenue of 1.854 trillion won (currently about 9.975 billion yuan), operating profit of 751.6 billion won (currently about 4.044 billion yuan), annual net profit of 500.2 billion won, year-on-year increase of 16% to 41%.

In the fourth quarter of 2022, Krafton sales were 473.8 billion won, up 7% from a year earlier, and operating profit reached 126.2 billion won, up 179% from a year earlier.

According to reports, PUBG added 45 million users in the past year, with PC and mainframe sales accounting for 31 per cent of total sales (465 billion won and 104.1 billion won respectively, up 17 per cent and 430 per cent respectively). The company said it would strengthen its production and distribution capabilities and continue to invest in new businesses such as Deep Learning and Metasmology in 2023.

However, Krafton's recently released "Dead Space" spiritual sequel, the Callisto Agreement, met its Waterloo and its sales fell short of expectations. CTOnews.com found from data provided by Samsung Securities that the Callisto agreement is expected to sell 5 million units, but so far only 2 million have been sold, making it "very difficult" to meet the target.

While releasing the results, Krafton proposed to strengthen the distribution and production capacity as the dual direction of 2023. Supported by the experience gained from launching 3A-rated games in the global market in 2022, the company plans to focus on game development and distribution to ensure the continuity of the game lineup.

In order to discover the new IP,Krafton, the company will open a new KRAFTON Montre é al Studio studio in Montreal, Canada, which is the company's first Canadian 3A studio.

According to reports, the studio will be responsible for strengthening the development of "the Bird drinking tears", led by Patrik M é th é, an outstanding figure in the game industry and head of the studio (isolated Island Soul 3, 4, 5, etc.). Krafton also announced its major game projects, including Project BlackBudget, Project GoldRush and The Next Subnautica.

The "Project Black Budget" project is described as "challenging the evacuation shooter based on the product experience of PUBG and service games". In short, they plan to use the game to challenge the DMZ mode of the evacuation shooter "Escape from Takov" and "call of Duty: theater 2".

At the same time, their Deepwater Trek sequel is also under development (Krafton acquired Deep Trek developer Unknown Worlds in 2021), and Krafton already owns Project GoldRush, an action adventure PvPvE sandboxie game, as well as Project Windless, a game adaptation based on the Korean fantasy online novel crying Bird.

Krafton says Montreal Studios in Canada will hire another 150 people over the next three years, including key positions including animation, programming and human resources leaders.

In addition, Krafton stressed that it plans to continue to invest in deep learning as a new key business and maintain game-led expansion.

Krafton is currently expanding its deep learning program in four main areas and plans to launch an early version of Virtual Friend in 2023.

According to reports, Krafton is also preparing a mobile open world virtual platform service, which is scheduled to be tested in the first half of this year and officially released within this year, with the ultimate goal of creating a "creation-revenue" (C2E) ecosystem that connects creators and brands.

CH Kim, CEO of Krafton, said: "in 2022, the company consolidated its production and service capabilities within the company, while making new attempts in the global market." "based on the experience gained in 2022, we will create more opportunities to showcase a lineup featuring strong gameplay and focus on enhancing efficiency in 2023," he said.

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