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Capcom’s video games catalogue has generated ¥58.5 billion ($380 million) in internet gross sales over the primary 9 months of its fiscal 12 months ending March thirty first, 2025.
This marked a 28.1% decline in “digital contents” internet gross sales year-on-year and a 38.2% decline within the section’s working earnings, all the way down to ¥29.2 billion ($189.9 million) over the primary 9 months of the fiscal 12 months.
Even so, Capcom’s newest financials have revealed that 94% of its complete working earnings for the 12 months to date has come from its video video games. In the meantime its arcade, amusement and “different enterprise” efforts collectively contributed simply 6% of working earnings.
Attempting to find new followers
On cellular, Capcom launched a brand new match-3 cellular recreation, Monster Hunter Puzzles: Felyne Isles, in the course of the present fiscal 12 months and the sport has achieved over a million downloads so far, in keeping with the newest monetary outcomes.
These financials once more confirmed Capcom and Niantic’s geolocation recreation Monster Hunter Now has achieved over 15 million downloads, which it initially reached final April. This implies downloads have not notably elevated in the course of the present fiscal 12 months.
Even so, Monster Hunter Now has remodeled $250 million so far in keeping with AppMagic estimates.
In the meantime, the smaller cellular spinoff Felyne Isles’ style presents a chance to achieve informal cellular recreation followers who haven’t beforehand performed a Monster Hunter title, becoming Capcom’s broader efforts to achieve “wider recognition” of its IP and “purchase new followers”.
Moreover, Felyne Isles and Monster Hunter Now are at present collaborating, encouraging gamers of 1 recreation to obtain the opposite. By finishing a complete of 15 quests in Felyne Isles, gamers can earn a redeem code for a novel Guild Card Background in Monster Hunter Now, enabling additional customisation choices.
Capcom’s cellular initiatives do not finish there, as the corporate additionally plans to launch one other cellular Monster Hunter recreation along with Tencent’s TiMi Studio. Titled Monster Hunter Outlanders, the cellular recreation guarantees to be a “totally featured” open-world recreation extra akin to the principle collection.
Although, in fact, Outlanders hasn’t but contributed to Capcom’s cellular recreation earnings.
Monster share
Throughout Capcom’s varied franchises, video games on all platforms, and myriad endeavours like arcades and Pachislo machines, the corporate has generated ¥88.9 billion ($577.2 million) in internet gross sales and ¥31 billion ($201.3 million) in working earnings up to now this fiscal 12 months.
“Digital contents” have been accountable for almost all of these figures, contributing 66% of internet gross sales and 94% of working earnings.
That is more likely to enhance additional after Monster Hunter Wilds’ launch on PC and console this February, with Capcom forecasting ¥165 billion ($1.1 billion) in complete internet gross sales for the complete fiscal 12 months.
Anticipation for the following primary collection Monster Hunter recreation – almost 4 years on from 2021’s Monster Hunter Rise – has “offered momentum” sufficient to push cumulative collection gross sales past 100 million items.
Capcom famous that this has contributed to “enhanced model worth for Monster Hunter titles”.
