{"id":7377,"date":"2026-05-01T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/krafton-q1-revenue-up-56-9-to-931m-driven-by-mobile-content\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:49:13","slug":"krafton-q1-revenue-up-56-9-to-931m-driven-by-mobile-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/krafton-q1-revenue-up-56-9-to-931m-driven-by-mobile-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Krafton Q1 revenue up 56.9% to $931m, driven by mobile content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Krafton reported record Q1 results, with revenue up 56.9% to \u20a91.37 trillion ($931 million) and operating profit at \u20a9561.6 billion ($381.3 million).<\/p>\n<p>The mobile segment generated \u20a9702.7 billion ($477 million), the largest share of revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Growth was driven by premium content, IP collaborations, and a 17% year-on-year increase in paying users for Battlegrounds Mobile India, supported by server upgrades and expanded content.<\/p>\n<p>PC revenue reached \u20a9363.9 billion ($247.1 million), supported by new content and robust live service operations for PUBG: Battlegrounds.<\/p>\n<p>The PUBG franchise achieved 24% year-on-year revenue growth, surpassing \u20a91 trillion ($679 million).<\/p>\n<p>Krafton recorded \u20a913.8 billion ($9.3 million) in console revenue and \u20a9291.0 billion ($197.6 million) from other segments.<\/p>\n<p>Krafton reaffirmed its AI-first strategy, emphasising its AI for Game initiative, which focuses on &#8220;delivering differentiated gameplay experiences using AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last October, the firm announced it would &#8220;prioritise AI as a central and primary means of problem-solving&#8221; and &#8220;foster change in individuals and organisations [to] increase company-wide productivity and accelerate mid- to long-term corporate value growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In its 2025 earnings, Krafton surpassed $2 billion in revenue for the first time, driven by its PUBG IP, which saw &#8220;double-digit growth&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krafton reported record Q1 results, with revenue up 56.9% to \u20a91.37 trillion ($931 million) and operating profit at \u20a9561.6 billion ($381.3 million). The mobile segment generated \u20a9702.7 billion ($477 million), the largest share of revenue. Growth was driven by premium content, IP collaborations, and a 17% year-on-year increase in paying users for Battlegrounds Mobile India,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7254,4585,4185,1046,715,5537],"class_list":{"0":"post-7377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-931m","9":"tag-content","10":"tag-driven","11":"tag-krafton","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-revenue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}