The first half of the current fiscal year ended in September, and electronic entertainment companies are now announcing financial results for the period to shareholder meetings. capcom It’s on track for its eleventh consecutive year of growth, and much of that path to prosperity is due to franchising.resident Evil‘. In fact, the company’s latest financial report reflects that the re-entry of the fourth numbered installment of the series, which was released six months ago, has already managed to sell more than 5.4 million units. But other games in the main series also work like a charm. In this regard, the Capcom document reveals the following: ‘Resident Evil 3‘There has been an increase in sales in recent months.
A franchise worth its weight
In an attempt to describe the state of the Japanese multinational’s coffers, the report reveals: ‘Resident Evil 2It currently has a total of over 13 million units, of which 1.2 million copies fall in the first half of the current financial year. Something that marks it as the most profitable job in the series. Delivery number three is also shipping at a good rate and continues to grow. Between April and September, ‘Resident Evil 3’ sold almost a million copies, with a total of 8 million units now sold. In global values, the franchise accumulates 150 million copies distributed across all its games; According to Capcom, this began with the release of the first game for the PlayStation in 1996 and set some standards for the survival horror genre that are maintained even today.
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The document also states that in the first half of the current fiscal year, Capcom sold 22.6 million units of video games, compared to 21.3 million recorded in the same period in 2022Most of these come from digital markets. The most commercially popular game of the house in the first half of the year was ‘Street Fighter 6’already sold 2.47 million copies Since its launch in June. remake ofResident Evil 4′Published in the previous fiscal year (March), 1.66 million copies. In total, 5.44 million units have already been sold in the seven months since the study launch.
Your new franchise, ‘exoprimalLaunched on July 14, ‘managed to entice just under 940 thousand players to purchase copies by the end of September. Note that the game is cross-gen (available for both console generations) and is released on Game Pass for PC and consoles, which in itself is something that attracts the attention of many gamers, but the positive result took a long time to come.