Capcom maintains optimism for 2024-2025, despite the collapse of the first half

Capcom has released its financial data for first half of 2024-2025, and despite declines in several areas, the study says its earnings have made “favorable progress.”

For the six month periodended September 30, 2024, net sales were 56.4 million yen ($367.85 million), down 25% from the previous year; operating profit was 20.7 million yen, down 39% from 338 million in 2023-2024 in the same period. So far, Capcom has said there are no changes to its full-year forecast.

Even so, he acknowledged that these declines were primarily due to last year's strong top-line stocks. Street fighter 6which has sold over 4 million units (as of last September), has been a great boost for Capcom outperformance last year together with Resident Evil 4 remake. In early October, Capcom revealed that the zombie game was sold out 8 million copies from its launch in spring 2023.

Capcom relies on Monster Hunter to reach 2025

On the platform side, PC sales accounted for 54% of sales in the first half (up from 48% last year), while console sales remained at 40%. Total unit sales were 20.05 million, down 11.4% from 22.6 million in the six months of 2023-2024.

The developer's actual 2024 releases so far, such as The Dogma of the Dragon II AND Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, have been a mixed bag, sales-wise. Capcom had already declared in May that it had sold the first over 3 million copiesWhile Kunitsu-Gami and September Dead man resurrected the remasters appear to have sold fewer than 674,000 copies each, as of September 30.

So far, the biggest earners for Capcom's current fiscal year have been the Monster Hunter games: The world of monster hunters sold nearly 1.8 million copies, followed by its Iceborne expansion (1.44 million), Rise of the Monster Hunter (1.36 million), and that title The dawn expansion (1,152 million). “Healthy” sales of these titles have previously been reported previously Monster Hunter Wilds, the next big chapter in the series will be released in February 2025.

Beyond savages, having just launched an open beta for PC and console players, Capcom is saying nothing about the other games it plans to release before the end of the current fiscal year, or what awaits 2025-2026.

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