Capcom has launched its monetary report protecting April 2024 to March 2025, and the massive takeaway is that Steam is now the writer’s single largest income driver. Gross sales on Steam over the interval totalled 52.723 billion yen ($363 million), a rise of 61.1% over the earlier fiscal 12 months, which makes Valve’s platform accountable for 31.3% of the corporate’s whole gross sales (versus 21.5% within the earlier fiscal 12 months).
Issues get much more good-looking when simply taking a look at Capcom’s digital content material enterprise, which excludes stuff like arcades, with Steam accounting for 42.1% of whole gross sales (thanks Gamebiz.jp). Compared, gross sales of software program on PlayStation now account for lower than 10% of the whole, with Capcom omitting the precise % as a consequence of it being beneath that threshold.
The whole variety of PC gross sales was 28,211,000 (a 30% improve from the earlier 12 months), and Capcom provides an especial shout-out to Monster Hunter Wilds. On all platforms Wilds bought a minimum of 10 million, however once more the strength-in-depth of Capcom’s providing is such that Monster Hunter: World bought 3.1 million whereas Monster Hunter: Rise shifted 2.4 million copies. These figures take the Monster Hunter sequence to over 100 million copies bought. Elsewhere varied Resident Evil video games bought a mixed whole of over 8 million, Road Fighter 6 managed 1.3 million, and Dragon’s Dogma 2 bought one million.
That is Capcom’s eighth 12 months in a row of document income, and it is likely one of the extra notable successes among the many conventional Japanese third-party giants. Capcom has in recent times pursued a method of releasing its latest titles concurrently on Steam and consoles, whereas additionally porting and/or remastering older titles to the platform: and similar to Sony, it is studying that serving PC gamers pays very properly certainly. As former PlayStation boss Shuehei Yoshida put it, releasing video games on Steam “is sort of like printing cash.”