Some publishers launch good video games that promote poorly. Some publishers launch dangerous video games that promote surprisingly nicely. Capcom is presently within the rarified place of delivery video games which are each superb and promoting like gangbusters. Followers have felt the wind on the Resident Evil maker’s sails for a bit now, and the most recent spherical of monetary knowledge from the Japanese firm backs it up. In its newest earnings report, Capcom revealed that Resident Evil Requiem has bought an extra a million copies, bringing its year-to-date whole gross sales over 8 million. What’s extra, the just lately launched Pragmata, a sci-fi shooter about just a little woman robotic that was delayed for years, has already bought 2.5 million copies. That’s spectacular for a sport that turns every fight encounter into a pc hacking puzzle, and nice information for one among Capcom’s few new franchises. However a lot of Capcom’s motion is in its again catalog. The corporate revealed it bought 23.81 million video games final quarter, in comparison with 14.16 million models bought throughout the identical interval final yr. That’s not dangerous in any respect when you think about 2025 had Monster Hunter Wilds and a collection of Swap 2 launch ports. The corporate ranks its video games by how nicely they bought over the quarter, and whereas Pragmata was primary, 2023’s Resident Evil 4 was quantity two. Actually, seven of the highest 10 highest-selling Capcom video games final quarter have been older Resident Evil entries. Satan Could Cry 5, out in 2019, was quantity 4 with 129,000 new copies bought. A part of that’s as a result of Netflix collection. A part of it’s as a result of sport repeatedly being on sale for lower than $10. But it surely additionally speaks to the broader well being of Capcom’s franchises, the previous ones and the newer ones.
Actually, Resident Evil as a collection has now bought 213 million copies because it started in 1996, making it the third-best-selling Japanese gaming franchise ever behind Mario and Pokémon. It narrowly edged out Closing Fantasy, which used to carry that place. I’m certain Sq. Enix followers would like to bottle the magic powering Capcom’s present unbeaten run.
