For the first nine months of its current fiscal year (April-December 2021), Capcom reports revenue up 36%, operating profit up 44% and net profit up 52%. It’s simple, the Osaka publisher has already beaten its record annual net profit (188 million euros) while it still has a quarter to go before closing the financial year. The quarter of the launch of Monster Hunter Rise on PC, moreover.
With 8 million Monster Hunter Rise, 5.7 million Resident Evil Village and 1.4 million Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, Capcom has already sold 25.8 million games since the beginning of the fiscal year, 30% more than last year at the same stage. Remember that Resident Evil 7 crossed the 10 million sales mark last October.
Capcom is also pleased with the good digital sales of its main games, the sales made in this format being more interesting for the publisher’s margin. Demonstration: of the 25.8 million games sold between April and December 2021, 18.7 million were downloaded (72% of the total). Incidentally, Capcom’s three largest franchises (Resident Evil, Monster Hunter and Street Fighter) now have 123 million, 78 million and 47 million games distributed worldwide, respectively.
“Capcom has also been working to steadily increase its earnings by leveraging its core brands in movies, licensed products and esports, as well as its arcade and amusement equipment businesses. As a result, Capcom achieved its highest net sales as well as the highest levels of any profit element at this point in the company’s history.“, explains the press release, making particular reference to the launch of the film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
The home video game of course represents the vast majority of Capcom’s business with a turnover of 548 million euros and an operating profit of 278 million euros. “Although the company did not release a new title during the third quarter of this fiscal year, it continued to promote the long-term sales of its content globally through strategic pricing actions and sold a total 301 different titles in 211 countries and regions“, can we read
For the full fiscal year ending March 31, 2022, Capcom expects revenue of 777 million euros, operating profit of 326 million euros and net profit of 233 million euros.
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