Q2 2022 NCSOFT Corp Earnings Call Transcript
[Interpreted] Good morning. I am Jason Lee, Head of IR at Ncsoft. Thank you very much for joining the company's second quarter 2022 earnings presentation.
I will begin with the highlights of the second quarter earnings. Second quarter sales was up 17% year-over-year to KRW 629.3 billion on Lineage W launch, while on a Q-on-Q basis, there was 20% decline on stabilization of Lineage W revenue.
On the back of mobile game revenue growth, operating profit was up 9% year-over-year, reporting KRW 123 billion. On lower revenue and rise in marketing expense, there was 50% decline Q-on-Q.
Pretax income was up 33% year-over-year and down 30% Q-on-Q to KRW 163.1 billion. Net income was up 26% year-over-year and down 29% Q-on-Q to KRW 118.7 billion.
Next, I will go over the sales of each game. Sales from the major mobile games was up 35% on year to KRW 475.2 billion, while on a Q-over-Q basis, there was 26% decline.
Lineage W sales were down 40% on quarter to KRW 223.6 billion. Since its release last November, we broke
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