Capcom simply launched its consolidated monetary outcomes for the 2024 fiscal 12 months, and the outcomes look good. In truth, they give the impression of being higher than they ever have: In an accompanying press launch, Capcom mentioned it achieved its highest ever annual earnings for the eighth 12 months in a row, reporting a internet revenue of ¥48.45 billion/$328 million.
Along with report earnings, Capcom additionally reported 51.87 million recreation gross sales, yet one more all-time excessive for the corporate. Attributing the success to “flagship collection efficiency,” Capcom introduced that Monster Hunter Wilds had bought over 10 million copies by the top of the fiscal 12 months on March 31.
We favored the most recent Monster Hunter fairly a bit in our Wilds evaluation, although I will confess I am hoping that Capcom can put aside a few of that record-breaking revenue to push out just a few sorely-needed efficiency patches for its gross sales chief.
It wasn’t simply Wilds bolstering Capcom gross sales, although. Based on the FY2024 earnings complement, Monster Hunter: World added one other 3.1 million gross sales throughout FY2024 whereas Monster Hunter: Rise bought one other 2.4 million copies. Altogether, the Monster Hunter collection has now bought over 100 million copies. A proud day for palicoes in every single place.
Past hitting dinosaurs with hammers, Resident Evil introduced in over 8 million gross sales with its numerous remakes, and Avenue Fighter introduced in additional than 1.3 million fighters to throw just a few fireballs. Even Dragon’s Dogma 2—which some particularly enlightened minds have acknowledged as a GOTY-worthy nice—added one other million to Capcom’s annual gross sales complete.
Wanting forward, Capcom says its plans for the rapid future are targeted on rising its catalog gross sales—that’s, gross sales for video games launched within the earlier fiscal 12 months or earlier. In 2025, we are able to safely count on a continued emphasis on Monster Hunter Wilds post-release assist (with an all however inevitable Grasp Rank enlargement ready someplace within the wings). And hey, an Onimusha 2 remaster coming later this month cannot harm.
