
There's simply no stopping Capcom. The Japanese publisher has just revealed its financial results for the fiscal year, and it's basically doing the best it's ever done. This is the company's sixth consecutive year of record-high profit, which is crazy to think about. It's gone from strength to strength to strength ever since landmark titles like Monster Hunter: World and Resident Evil 7 revitalised its business.
But the success doesn't stop there. Capcom's also confirmed that it sold a record number of games over the last 12 months — a total of 41.7 million units. This is what happens when you keep pumping out bangers, we suppose.
Even if you don't pay particular attention to the financial side of things, Capcom's dominance has been clear for a while. One look at its release schedule over the last several years tells you all you need to know, with highly rated projects hitting one after another. Devil May Cry 5, the Resident Evil remakes, Monster Hunter Rise... The list goes on.
Last month, the publisher's stock reached an all-time high off the back of Resident Evil 4 — and guess what? It's now peaked even higher thanks to these financial results. Stock price has gone from its previous record of 4,865 yen to 5,270 yen. The momentum is real.
Did you ever think Capcom could return to such dominance after its incredibly shaky PS3 generation? With the likes of Street Fighter 6, the inevitable Monster Hunter World 2, and Dragon's Dogma 2 all waiting in the wings, wonder what the future holds for Capcom in the comments section below.
[source videogameschronicle.com, via twitter.com]
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Breath of Fire and Dino crisis sequels.
Cmon capcom... you can do it.
Sometimes I randomly remember Dragon's Dogma 2 is a thing and smile.
Don't worry. They're about to release Exo Primal. That'll ding their bank account pretty good.
I think I've enjoyed more great games from Capcom than any other publisher the last few years and with RE4 done and SF6 on the way, this year is looking just as good
Time for that Dino Crisis remake!
@TripleKing333 This is the only thing that would get me to purchase a Capcom game at this point... and that's if they didn't screw it up.
... and assuming it's not cancelled, Instinction, which is said to be a spiritual successor to Dino Crisis, is supposed to release in 2025.
@Uncharted2007
I don't think they really put that much budget into that game. Plus it's on Game Pass so Microsoft gave them a check for it. I agree in that I don't think it's going to do very well for them but I also doubt it's going to hurt their financials much either.
Super happy to read this report about Capcom, they are my number one favourite developer by a mile! So glad that they went back to what made them successful! I am actually really looking forward to Exoprimal. The beta was very good in my opinion and if you were playing with a group of friends, I think it would be a great laugh. On the topic of what’s next, Code Veronica Remake, a new Bionic Commando, Onimusha Reboot, a new Darkstalkers and a Strider sequel would all be very much appreciated!! 😄
Great to see. Long may it continue
@Splat accurrate.
I can't believe people are not talking about DD2.
DD:DA maybe the best multi-platform game in the last two generations?
DMC style Onimusha pls seeing as Ninja gaiden is no more they can go for it.
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There becoming Capgod again.
SO ABOUT THAT TATSUNOKO VS CAPCOM REMASTER ?
kinda unfair the game was wasted on cheap dead hardware!
also should mention the DMC/ dragons dogma team is helping on ffxvi combat
Capcom’s turnaround during a time when many major publishers are receiving backlash for lackluster releases has been super impressive.
N.i.c.e. cant wait for dragon dogma 2.dragon dogma dark arisen is one of the best games ever made.word up son
Capcom has made one of the biggest comebacks ever since Re7
The film is out next month which I’m buying instantly because Jill
@nomither6 It was an amazing game regardless of the fact it was on Wii.
People here can be so pretentious.
Just waiting for the obligatory 'Sony should buy them' comments.
well deserved too , resident evil 4 remake is probably up there as one of the best games this year imo. they took a great game and made it even better.
Can they officially change their name to CapGod 😂
What’s next to remaster or remake for Capcom?
I’m probably the only one here who doesn’t care at all about Code Veronica
It's very impressive considering where they were in 2012 with the train wreck that was RE6. Capcom in 2012 and the Capcom from 2017 onwards to now feels like two completely different gaming companys
@Beerheadgamer82 Yooo, RE6 was the best-selling game in the series until the RE2 remake, and is vastly under-appreciated IMHO. I feel like you had to play it co-op or it wasn't as fun. I loooooove that games (as in it's basically 4 entire games in one).
Time to invest...
It's because, unlike many other 3rd party publishers, they actually make great games!
@stinkyx I really enjoyed RE6. I'm actually giving it another play through at the moment.
Loved RE7 / Village. Amazing to play and beautiful.
Do not care about more rehash like RE4. It does makes me excited for the RE Engine. Use the Demo to benchmark my HDR monitor settings.
Hoping for a new Monster Hunter that pushes the game like MH: World did. You can max out Rise on PC and still looks meh.
Wishing on a new Breath of Fire is hopeless. Obviously it cant compete dollar wise with any of this other stuff.
@stinkyx fair enough if you liked RE6, I certainly didn't though. 6 is pure identity crisis like where's the scares gone. Was more like playing a Michael Bay action movie than an actual survival horror video game, completely losing its identity. Also up there as one of the very worst reviewed mainline RE games with very average review scores all over the place and I have to agree with many of them. Hence why the follow up mainline sequel RE7 makes RE6 look like a walk in the park when it comes to the survival horror department, they couldn't be anymore different, meaning Capcom listened to all the RE6 criticisms
Who knew making solid games would be profitable, I'm flabbergasted 🤯
All I need is a new Monster Hunter and definitely DragonsDogma 2! Please!
It's so weird to me. I really respect that Capcom is super high on peoples list and that they're obviously in the swing of making top notch games. However, I can't think of a single Capcom game made in the last ten years that I actually like playing. That's a me thing, not a Capcom thing.
I always say the best publishers are Capcom Nintendo and Sony, they jockey back and forth, but if you want to place Nintendo first from the sheer number of high quality releases, Capcom is second only to them IMO, and Sony is quickly approaching and already has some GOTG in their pocket.
@SplooshDmg Kind of in the same camp. I see people raving about Capcom so much all the time, but it's mostly just been MonHun and RE. I don't touch RE, and I "like" MonHun but suck at MonHun, so I'm very lukewarm on it. I didn't think DMC was more than niche. I definitely appreciate SF6 though, but yea, I don't really interact with Capcom much at all so it always surprises me that they're pulling in so much money, seems like it's a handful of games that would otherwise be niche other than SF. I miss the days when they had a boatload of variety in the 8-bit through PS2 era. They were untouchable back then.
Congrats to Capcom
@NEStalgia It's so weird to me. I kinda sorta like Monster Hunter, but I avoid what few friends I have, so I'm not inclined to want to play that online, and I think it's kinda boring solo. I hate horror games. I hate fighting games. I hate hack n slash action games. They make great games for their genres, but they just don't really make much for me. I'm optimistic for Dragon's Dogma 2, even though I'm kinda meh on the first one. It's a cult classic, but I think that game is rough around the edges. The last game Capcom published that I LOVED was Okami.
@SplooshDmg IDK MH is any more boring solo than multi, it has its own separate solo campaign and has talking cats. I technically like it, but I'm simply not good at it, and after you spend too may 30+ minute hunts only to lose and make no progress, it gets tiring very fast. If I were better at it, or it were less difficult (or less time consuming) I think I'd love it.
Still, I'm continuously shocked that they are doing SO well. They make super polished games in their niches for sure. But MH has always been very niche IMO, and horror is inherently niche even if RE is one of the biggest titles in that niche. And fighting games haven't been mainstream since the 90's. So I still scratch my head at how they're doing quite so well. I get why they have very loyal fans, but none of their current products are all that mainstream. Maybe they're making boatloads on mobile or something?
Yeah Dogma is a great game, but also too rough and I had a hard time getting into it. But I'm keeping my eye on the next one.
Also, Dark Stalkers...we need more Dark Stalkers.
@NEStalgia Yeah, I honestly feel like I should like Monster Hunter, but over the years it's just never really clicked with me. My buddies love it, and they basically always played together. I kinda assumed they loved it because they got to have a Zoom call with... Weapons. Playing alone always seemed like, "Why am I doing this? And what about this is fun?" Hunting always felt more tedious than fun. I honestly think it all comes around to the fact that I'm pretty adverse to too much combat in games, and I'm left with the impressions that's basically all MH is. I genuinely don't like particularly complicated action games. Monster Hunter has always struck me as clunky, but I think it feels clunky because it's just complicated and I'm not interested enough to want to learn
I was playing Dragons Dogma on Steam, and little did I know there's a notorious bug in that game to this very day that will corrupt your save file and my save was lost. Steam cloud had already backed up the corrupted save, so there was no salvaging it. I finally just said to hell with it and never looked at it again. Lol
@__jamiie LIKE YOU ? you missed my point entirely , it deserves a second chance i have a wii and still have it to this day , i just even played it this past weekend . im not pretentious i’m honest , the wii was FACTUALLY cheap & it WAS losing a lot of momentum at the time and was nearly abandoned by 2010 .
@stinkyx i liked 6 myself , it was like the old games , 4 , 5 into one game, didn't they have zombies in part of the game?
@nomither6
Cheap dead hardware? Lol. The Wii sold 101 mil.
But yeah, I agree that it wasn’t the best system for fighting games…
@RamboMike yea, it sold 101mil partially because it was cheap; i don't care how revolutionary or interesting the motion controls were at the time, i doubt all of the 101mil would drop $400-500 dollars for it, LOL. the wii's popularity fad lasted from like 06-09 by 2010 ppl were over it and third party didnt put anything out on it, and if they did , it was bad.
tatsunko vs capcom undersold, its a great wii game but we all know damn well it wouldve done much better anywhere else.
@SplooshDmg Most online gaming is "fun" because it's a Zoom call with weapons. But MH I always thought was popular for it's campaign just as much.
For me I think the problem is both sucking and therefore not making much progress, but also, it's basically a game that consists only of boss battles. There's a percentage of gamers that love boss battles, it's their favorite thing in games, and they'd do boss battle rushes in every game only if they could. I hate boss battles. Always, always have. Worst part of every game. I think because I'm impatient. I can spend 20 hours and feel only an hour went by as long as I'm doing something that feels like I'm moving something forward. But if I spend 20+ minutes in a single battle I expect to win even if I get killed because I simply don't want to spend 20 minutes trying and failing the same thing over and over.
So the result is that for me MH is really cool and I really try to get into it, and I technically like it, but always end up giving up partway through because I'm not having fun even though the systems and environments are fun.
@NEStalgia Right, which was the point I was making. In my mind it's always been a game that must just be more fun in co-op, because I've always played it single player and I've always thought it was boring as watching paint peel. Maybe it is popular for it's single player, I honestly don't know.
I don't mind boss battles, but I have pretty specific tastes in gaming, and I don't think just hunting the boss and fighting it is particularly appealing. I think I mostly just refuse to play games with a clock ticking. The second the game starts making me feel like I'm in a rush, I have basically quit having fun and just feel like I'm working at that point. I think that's honestly the part of Monster Hunter I like the least. I think like Dark Souls, it's just a git gud kind of franchise, and I just don't like it enough to want to git gud.
@SplooshDmg Yeah, and that's what keeps it kind of niche. I know the new breed of masochist gamers love hard for the sake of hard, and MH was one of the original hard for the sake of hard games. But it's a very specific niche of game, it's grown a lot, but is still pretty niche IMO. It has all the grinding of an MMO with all the git gud hardness of Souls, mixed with the combo movesets of a fighting game. Very unique. Technically very cool, but.....niche.
Of course, Horizon is basically just MH-lite in a lot of ways. So that new co-op Horizon game is probably going to be suspiciously MH-like.
@NEStalgia See, it's a culmination of all sorts of things I don't like. I mean really, being honest... I don't like Horizon either. I've installed Forbidden West at least six times, played for twenty minutes, then uninstalled it again. I want to like it, but I just don't. What I really want to do is grind Fire Emblem: Engage into a fine dust, and snort it up my nose.
@SplooshDmg I absolutely adore Zero Dawn, I've heard mixed things recently in another thread about HFW. I'm HOPING to like it, but someone was describing a lot of things that they felt were much worse and overwrought in the sequel vs the original. I'm HOPING I will love it.
I mean it's basically just FarCry/AsCreed but with MH-lite battle, which is good because it doesn't require 30 minutes to fail to kill the monster.
But yeah, MH is very much "git gud", I spend 30 minutes and run out of time trying to wear down monsters and keep re-doing it and then I hear other people talking about if you just build X kit, and use Y , and eat Z meal they just grind the monster with like 8 minutes battles...... IDK, I definitely don't get something about how to do MH well. But it's mixed. I love the game, world and concept, but suck too much and thus don't enjoy it enough to justify getting too into it.
Though mood can do a lot. I keep going on about NMH.... I bought it in 2018 on XB on a sale after all the hype, played for like 4 hours and thought it was the absolute most boring game ever, I did not understand why anyone would play it. Then I bought it again full price on PS for VR....and OMG I never want to play any other game. It's basically just Pressure Washer Simulator but on a planetary scale, but you might get caught by security drones, with massive upgrade trees, glued to an X-Wing space fighter game, with MMORPG quests, and Minecraft base building, with some FPS sections..... and a weirdly Elder Scrolls-like "you figure out what you want to do" design, it's just a kitchen sink variety show of a video game wrapped in an ultimate Trekkie skin and I love it now. Which is so weird because i hated it years back, bored me to tears, "you just mine stuff endlessly and keep recharging your depleting hazard gauge, this sucks." shrug
@NEStalgia I played Zero Dawn and I liked it pretty well. This was years ago, and being fair, I'd tell you my taste has kinda changed a good deal since then. I can basically live without Far Cry, Assassins Creed and MH entirely. Something about Forbidden West is just off putting from the start. I went into it fairly optimistically, but really just didn't find much, if anything satisfying about it. I'd honestly tell you every interaction with a human is just weird and kinda makes me cringe because everyone behaves like some weird lifeless doll. It's a bizarre experience, and I really just don't like it. The only person that seems more bored to be there than me, is Aloy. Lol
I'm thinking about getting a Quest 2 for the PC. So, if I do I'd surely pickup up NMS. It seems like something I'd probably like. But really, I'll probably just get sucked in TOTK like everyone else for a while.
@SplooshDmg Yeah...HFW was one of my big "I'm saving this to really just get all the way into it"...HZD is my lone platinum (got it by playing naturally then doing 2 additional things to finish it off), so I'm a little nervous as a few people have told me it's not as enjoyable to them as the first.... I'm crossing my fingers.
If you're getting a Quest 2 you may just want to wait for Quest 3 right around the corner. Optically it'll be better than PSVR2 due to better lenses. By itself it's less good, but with a PC it should be better all around. But with the caveat that if it's like Quest 2 it doesn't actually support HDMI over USB, it just compresses video, so it's not as good looking when wired to PC as other headsets. IDK if Quest 3 fixes that or not (it might.)
My only VR kit is PSVR1 and PSVR2 (plus an old Occulus/Quest Galaxy Gear that was terrible), so it's all heresay about the PC aspects though. But yeah, if you get it, absolutely try NMS. Your love for Power Washer tells me you'll love the mining with the laser....and that game feels like it's just built for VR. Even if the gfx are somewhat on the "not the best of VR by a mile" side.
@NEStalgia You might love it, beats me.
Hmm I'll look into the Quest 3 then. This isn't anything pressing for me, but I am kinda interested in VR. Sometimes the mundane is just more satisfying than what is supposed to be 'obviously fun'. I'd rather powerwash walls than fight robot dinosaurs, 100%.
Best developer and publisher around. Always treats customers with respect, almost always make amazing games. RE especially. The only time I’ve been disappointed was RE6.
@SplooshDmg Yeah, IDK when the Quest 3 is launching, sometime in 2023, but the optics should be an upgrade over the 2 at least (by optics I mean better screens, and better lenses in front of the screens.) PSVR2 does some things better than Quest 3 (OLED/deeper blacks, the haptics, the controllers, etc), Quest 3 seems like it should do better than PSVR2 in some things (optics), but obviously, for PC PSVR2 isn't a player, and anything else costs megabucks sock it's Quest 2 or 3, and it seems a little late to buy a 2.
My only point of doubt on 3 is that they're focusing more on AR than VR, seems all the big players are going that way, so hopefully it won't interfere with VR goodness.
Either way, yeah, for me at least, once you do VR, it makes regular 2D gaming feel bland. I find I like 2D/top down/turn based stuff more in 2D as a result, because anything "immersive" just....isn't. It's not just the 3D or the direct immersion it's the fact that the characters and world are life-size that really changes it.
NMS isn't that much of a looker....soft textures, iffy draw distance, though on PC with DLSS you're ahead of that curve. But what it does with what it has, in VR.....the moment you start heading toward planetary re-entry, and you see a life-size planet.......actually the size of a planet......fill your view, there's no going back. I do think you'd like it based on your MMO-ish preferences. It's hard to describe. It's part survival sim, it's part MMO that you play alone, it's part MMO with group raids (optional), it's part Bethesda-like RPG.... It's heavy on the mining/resource gathering/crafting, inventory management, and then crafting exotic things that make mining easier, etc. There is an MMO hub filled with actual players that is a summonable space station you do go there often for single player quests, and it's also where you purchase tech blueprints. But only one counter is there for actual MMO group expeditions and it's totally ignorable. Mostly it's just an addictive time sink because there's always that one next upgrade that you want.
I just got MEGA lucky. Somehow as some quest reward I got a stack of 50 valuables that sell net for 600M credits, that's enough to do almost anything I want to do in the game without spending months farming. I just got myself an S class small fighter and explorer and am building a fleet of frigates to send on missions which then just make more money. I'd say i just jumped straight to endgame content, but, then I'm still nanite (the other currency) short so I'm behind on tech upgrades and behind on more advanced resources.....
It's killing me, I'm switching to Zelda this weekend (of course!) but I'm soooo going to miss NMS. It's just an addictive, expansive game, and in VR literally living INSIDE a world of planet hopping is a tough one to put aside, that game is just ideal for it. TBH it's kind of put me off from Starfield...totally different game genre, emphasis on combat and NPC dialogue vs exploration/mining/crafting, but with enough overlap that "not in VR" just makes the planet hopping less interesting. So weird I ignored this game till I played it in VR though.
For you, I think it should fit your Genshin vibes nicely. Except without bunny girls. Although all the Vy'keen warriors all seem to be wearing lipstick.....
@NEStalgia I'm pretty content after the hour I played of TOTK that I'm probably going to just drop everything else for a while. I think I love the Ultrahand. I'm going to have to go on Genshin break, which is okay. I've sank about 500 hours into it so far, so I'll probably go on hiatus until the new country opens. I will miss my harem, but I will return to them soon.
@SplooshDmg Haha, yeah tonight's one last NMS VR run for a while. IDK how to kick the habit but I have to somehow....and tomorrow I start Zelda properly I think!
@NEStalgia I'm def going gung-ho on Zelda tonight. I was trying to wrap up FE: Engage before TOTK dropped, but I made it to the final chapter last night. So, I need to get that wrapped up too. I still have Metroid Prime Remastered that I haven't even opened yet. I've gotta kick the Genshin habit for a good long while. Lol
@SplooshDmg I should be ashamed given my avatar that you've got the jump on me by a whole day on the latest Zelda lol.
@NEStalgia Remember that one time when I finished the entire XC trilogy before you finished XC3, even though you started XC3 three months before me?
@SplooshDmg I still haven't finished it 😂
@NEStalgia Eh, honestly, that's okay. I wish I hadn't. 🥴
@SplooshDmg lol, yeah, that probably contributed to me not prioritizing or actually
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