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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 yr finishing March thirty first, 2025.
This marked a 28.1% decline in “virtual contents” internet gross sales year-on-year and a 38.2% decline within the section’s working source of revenue, right down to ¥29.2 billion ($189.9 million) over the primary 9 months of the fiscal yr.
Even so, Capcom’s newest financials have published that 94% of its general working source of revenue for the yr to this point has come from its video video games. In the meantime its arcade, amusement and “different trade” efforts jointly contributed simply 6% of working source of revenue.
Attempting to find new lovers
On cell, Capcom launched a brand new match-3 cell sport, Monster Hunter Puzzles: Felyne Isles, all through the present fiscal yr and the sport has completed over 1,000,000 downloads thus far, in line with the most recent monetary effects.
The ones financials once more showed Capcom and Niantic’s geolocation sport Monster Hunter Now has completed over 15 million downloads, which it in the beginning reached ultimate April. This implies downloads have not particularly higher all through the present fiscal yr.
Even so, Monster Hunter Now has revamped $250 million thus far in line with AppMagic estimates.
In the meantime, the smaller cell by-product Felyne Isles’ style gifts a possibility to succeed in informal cell sport lovers who haven’t up to now performed a Monster Hunter name, becoming Capcom’s broader efforts to achieve “wider reputation” of its IP and “achieve new lovers”.
Moreover, Felyne Isles and Monster Hunter Now are lately taking part, encouraging avid gamers of 1 sport to obtain the opposite. Via finishing a complete of 15 quests in Felyne Isles, avid gamers can earn a redeem code for a novel Guild Card Background in Monster Hunter Now, enabling additional customisation choices.
Capcom’s cell projects do not finish there, as the corporate additionally plans to unlock some other cell Monster Hunter sport in conjunction with Tencent’s TiMi Studio. Titled Monster Hunter Outlanders, the cell sport guarantees to be a “absolutely featured” open-world sport extra corresponding to the principle sequence.
Despite the fact that, in fact, Outlanders hasn’t but contributed to Capcom’s cell sport profits.
Monster percentage
Throughout Capcom’s quite a lot of 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 source of revenue to this point this fiscal yr.
“Virtual contents” had been accountable for almost all of the ones figures, contributing 66% of internet gross sales and 94% of working source of revenue.
That is more likely to build up additional after Monster Hunter Wilds’ unlock on PC and console this February, with Capcom forecasting ¥165 billion ($1.1 billion) in general internet gross sales for the entire fiscal yr.
Anticipation for the following primary sequence Monster Hunter sport – just about 4 years on from 2021’s Monster Hunter Upward push – has “supplied momentum” sufficient to push cumulative sequence gross sales past 100 million devices.
Capcom famous that this has contributed to “enhanced emblem worth for Monster Hunter titles”.
