Capcom Sales And Profits Decline

Without major game releases, sales fell in the nine month period ending December 2016.

Capcom has detailed its financial results for the nine month period ending December 2016, showing a year-on-year decline in both revenue and profits.

Sales were cited as $472 million, which is a drop of around six percent compared to 2015's $503 million. Operating income was reported as $4.5 million, a fall of around 51 percent compared to the previous year. Capcom's profits totalled $24 million over the nine month period. Year-on-year, this is a decline of just over 60 percent.

In its statement, Capcom said it began to refocus itself on VR during this time in light of "the successive releases of VR devices that are highly compatible with games ... With an eye to creating a new market." As part of this, Capcom has undergone some reorganisation and "strengthened its management structure" in order to reform its development division.

Capcom said its efforts in mixed media has allowed it to leverage "rich content assets" and "enhance its presence" while increasing "brand value by generating synergy with popular games." In particular, the Monster Hunter Stories animated TV show was highlighted as key to this, along with Resident Evil: Voice of Gaia, a musical theater performance held in Japan.

In terms of games, the dip in year-on-year sales was attributed to a lack of a popular title like 2015's Monster Hunter Generations (Monster Hunter X in Japan), which launched for 3DS and proved to be very popular.

Sales of Dead Rising 4, which was released for Xbox One and PC in December 2016, were described as "firm," while Monster Hunter Stories' were said to be "soft." Digital re-releases of Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 4 "performed steadily."

Looking ahead, Capcom has said it "plans on an aggressive sales campaign" with the release of two major games: Resident Evil 7 Biohazard and Monster Hunter XX for 3DS.

Resident Evil 7 launched on January 24 and Capcom shipped 2.5 million copies of the game to retailers during its launch week. This figure is below the shipment numbers for Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil 5, which may have contributed to the company's share value taking a hit recently.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/capcom-sales-and-profits-decline/1100-6447448/

Clearly they need to release a ton of Switch games to reverse this.

The problem is that they do not release all their games on the PS4.

All of their franchises are declining and they're ignoring the ones that could grow (Mega Man, Dragon's Dogma, Devil May Cry). And their second biggest franchise (Monster Hunter) is still using assets from the first game in the series that was released 13 years ago. The lastest Monster Hunter literally looks the same (or maybe even worst because of lower resolution) than the first Monster Hunter on the PS2. That's insane. I have to command Capcom for their bold decision with Resident Evil 7, but this should have happened years ago and should be applied to all of their series if they want to keep them relevant. The company is highly mismanaged right now.

Nah they need to bring out their games on mobiles

Lets hope the next Monsta Hunta is a PS4/Switch title with all new assets and stuff

Oh and bring back DMC5

3rd thing they need to do is invest heavily in mobiles, other Japanese publishers, even seemingly failing ones like Sega make big buck there. Sega makes like 100s of millions of $.

"Sales fell in the nine month period" ...
"Operating income was reported as $4.5 million"

Too early to be abit worried about Capcom?

They need to do a DMC5 for the PS4, and a Monster Hunter that looks like a new game, for the switch.

Breath of Fire needs a real reboot, and the world has been crying out for a new Mega Man for years.

Super Street Fighter V needs to be a thing, released on every platform with a large variety of content.

The popularity of horror games and the popularity of Jurassic Park tells us that Dino Crisis is perfect for a reboot right now.

Monster Hunter is due a new, big release on 3DS or Switch/PS4.

The best they can do with Street Fighter V is a complete edition, because they kInd of backed themselves into a corner when they said that they would never release a Super version or release it on Xbox.

It'd be a good time to try and bank on Mega Man fans by making a new game, or, if they can't make it, sell it to someone *cough cough* Nintendo *cough cough* to make some profit...

Nope.  That's a pretty bad number.