The first half of the current fiscal year ended in September and now electronic entertainment companies reveal the financial results of the aforementioned period to their shareholders’ meetings. Capcom It is on its way to its eleventh consecutive year of growth and much of this path of prosperity is due to the franchise.resident Evil‘. In fact, the company’s latest fiscal report reflects that the re-entry of the fourth numbered installment of the series, which was launched six months ago, has already managed to sell more than 5.4 million units. But the rest of the titles in the main franchise also work like a charm. Along these lines, the Capcom document reveals that ‘Resident Evil 3‘has seen an increase in its sales in recent months.
A franchise worth gold
With the intention of defining the state of the Japanese multinational’s coffers, the report reveals that ‘Resident Evil 2‘ Now it has a total figure that exceeds 13 million units, of which 1.2 million copies correspond to the first half of the current fiscal year. Something that places it as the most profitable work in the series. The third numbered delivery is also being shipped at a good pace and continues to grow. Between April and September, ‘Resident Evil 3’ sold almost a million copies and now has 8 million units sold in total. In global values, the franchise accumulates 150 million copies distributed among all its titles, which according to Capcom began in 1996 with the launch of the first title for PlayStation, which established some standards for the survival horror genre that are maintained even today.
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The document also states that during the first half of the current fiscal year, Capcom sold 22.6 million units of its video games, compared to the 21.3 million recorded in the same period of 2022much of which comes from digital markets. The most popular title of the house in commercial terms during the first half of the year is ‘Street Fighter 6’which has already sold 2.47 million copies since its launch in June. The remake of ‘Resident Evil 4′published in the previous fiscal year (March), exceeds the 1.66 million copies. In total, the work has already recorded 5.44 million units sold in the seven months that have passed since its launch.
Your new franchise, ‘Exoprimal‘, launched on July 14, has managed to convince just under 940 thousand players who have purchased copies at the end of September. Remember that the game is cross-gen (available for both generations of consoles), and was published in Game Pass for PC and consoles, something that in itself attracts many players, but the positive result is taking a long time to come.