Capcom reports another year of record profits, as sales of Resident Evil Village pass 6m

UPDATE 18/5/22: Capcom has up to date its record of best-selling video games, giving us an replace on the efficiency of its prime titles (thanks, Gematsu).

Monster Hunter Rise has now bought 9m copies on PC and Nintendo Change since launch (with a further 1.3m this 12 months).

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne has shifted 9.2m copies up to now, with an additional 400k copies this 12 months throughout PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

The unique Monster Hunter World sits at 18m bought, making it Capcom’s best-selling sport ever.

All of Capcom’s prime 5 best-selling video games come from the previous 5 years: Monster Hunter video games World, Iceborne and Rise, plus Resident Evil 7 and the 2019 remake of Resi 2.

ORIGINAL STORY 11/5/22: Capcom has had yet one more nice 12 months of gross sales, and as such made some fairly tidy income.

The corporate launched its monetary report earlier as we speak and introduced its “fifth consecutive 12 months of record-high income”, though that is truly its ninth consecutive 12 months of seeing some form of revenue development. Capcom acknowledged these income have been pushed by its digital contents enterprise (so, hey there Resident Evil and Monster Hunter).

“Internet gross sales had been 110bn yen (up 15.5 p.c from the earlier fiscal 12 months), working earnings was 42bn yen (up 24 p.c), atypical earnings was 44bn yen (up 27.2 p.c), and web earnings attributable to house owners of the mum or dad was 32,553m yen (up 30.6 p.c),” Capcom mentioned.

Along with these spectacular numbers, the corporate revealed that Resident Evil Village has now bought 6.1m copies and Monster Hunter Tales 2: Wings of Destroy has bought over 1.5m models worldwide.

In the meantime, Capcom noticed its total annual gross sales of digital content material attain 32.6m. For comparability, final 12 months the corporate noticed a determine of 30.1m models bought (which continues to be fairly good going). Capcom has accredited the rise of digital gross sales for reinforcing income, calling it a “extremely worthwhile” manner of doing issues.

Final month, Capcom revised its earnings forecast, as its video games are at present promoting so properly. Whereas not talked about instantly on this newest earnings report, the corporate revealed in April that Satan Could Cry 5 has now handed 5m gross sales worldwide.