Can we just say how amazing it has been just how well Capcom turn things around from 10 years ago?
Capcom was literally looking for another company to buy them out in 2014:
and then again in 2017:
and here we are and Capcom has just been breaking record after record.
Unlike Microsoft and Sony they are not shutting down studios left and right and in fact the last time they did was on September 21st, 2018 when they shut down Capcom Vancouver. Crazy just how efficient Capcom has been ever since they brought out the RE Engine with Resident Evil 7 in January 2017.
It's crazy how a decade ago Capcom and Nintendo were both struggling and yet these two are one of the few gaming companies not laying off employees like crazy.
Imagine going back to 2014 when Nintendo was in the middle of the Wii U era and their lowest lows and telling them that their next system was about to overtake the PS2 in sales. Imagine telling people in 2014 that Mario Kart 8 would sell over 60 million on their next system.
Imagine telling people in 2014 that a Resident Evil 4 remake was 9 years away and would rate almost as high as the original on Metacritic, remember this was only 2 years after Resident Evil 6.
there were reports of Capcom only having 152 Million in the bank about a decade ago meaning they probably couldn't even fund a Concord which is rumored to have been at 200 million to make:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/691087-playstation-4/67216152?page=4
Now look at these two juggernauts just doing their own thing while so many other studios are in some hard financial places.
Completely meaningless stat when we know Capcom has multiple megabundles for $1 and name-your-price on PC where each key is counted as a "sale". They are on rotation every month on indie humble, fanatical and keysites etc. I must have 10 codes of each with all the giveaways.
I'm not surprised the PCMR are showing their low-IQ by bragging about these fake numbers. Like the xbots and their MAUs, player numbers, toilet flushes and Craig cameos
Bruh, you don't see how many times Capcom games go on sale on Consoles? Even with those sales on PC, Capcom's revenue and profit wouldn't be increasing so much year over year if PC players were just buying their games at $1.
Capcom Co., Ltd. today announced that in its consolidated earnings for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, net sales were 152,410 million yen (up 21.0% year-over-year), operating income was 57,081 million yen (up 12.3% year-over-year), ordinary income was 59,422 million yen (up 15.7 %...
www.capcom.co.jp
Japanese game company Capcom has reported record sales and predicted even bigger returns are to come, with Monster Hunter Wilds waiting in the wings.
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