Resident Evil 4 hits 6.48 million copies sold, as Capcom's three-quarter revenue reaches $718 million

Capcom has shared its financial results for the nine months ended December 31, 2023. The company’s video game business continues to grow, driven by strong sales of Street Figther 6 and back catalog titles like Resident Evil and Monster Hunter.

Financial highlights

• In the first three quarters of FY23, Capcom reached net sales of ¥106.1 billion ($718.4 million), up 33% year-over-year.
• Operating income was ¥47.7 billion ($322.7 million), up 43% compared to the same period last year.
• Digital Contents (video games) division reached ¥81.4 billion ($551 million) in revenue, up 33% year-over-year.
• Digital sales remained the main distribution channel with ¥64.8 billion ($438.4 million) in revenue, but sales of physical copies grew 38% year-over-year.
• Mobile games generated ¥2.4 billion in the nine-month period, up 20% year-over-year.
• For the full fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, Capcom expects to reach ¥140 billion ($947.2 million) in revenue and ¥56 billion ($378.9 million) in operating income.

Game sales

• From April 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023, Street Fighter 6 was Capcom’s best-selling game with 2.98 million units sold globally. As of January 3, 2024, the title surpassed the 3 million mark.
• It is followed by the Resident Evil 4 remake — 2.69 million copies (its lifetime sales have now reached 6.48 million units).
• Other top-selling titles in FY23 include Resident Evil 2 (1.66 million copies, lifetime — 13.6 million), Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak (1.64 million copies, lifetime — 7.1 million), and MegaMan Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 1-2 (1.51 million copies).
• In the Mobile segment, the main revenue driver was Monster Hunter Now, an AR title developed by Pokémon Go developer Niantic.

• In the first three quarters of FY23, Capcom sold 32.6 million copies of games, up 12% year-over-year.
• Back catalog titles accounted for 81.9% of the total, while sales of new games reached 5.9 million units.
• The share of overseas sales continues to grow, accounting for 82.2% of Capcom’s total game sales, while the share of domestic sales dropped to 17.8%.