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TheRealSamusAran said:

JEMC said:

Capcom has sold more units on PC in the first half of FY25 than on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox combined
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/capcom-has-sold-more-units-on-pc-in-the-first-half-of-fy25-than-on-nintendo-switch-playstation-and-xbox-combined/
Capcom has shared its sales for the first half of FY25, and it appears that the big winner here was the PC platform. According to the official graph, Capcom has sold more units on PC than on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox consoles.
To be more precise, Capcom has sold 20,025M units so far this fiscal year. From those sales, 54% of them were on PC, whereas 40% were on consoles. Again, the console percentage includes all main three consoles.
Compared to the previous fiscal year, PC digital sales have grown from 48% to 54%. This right here shows how profitable the PC platform actually is for the Japanese company.

Damn, that's crazy. I mean, Capcom haven't released a new game on the Switch since what, Monster Hunter Rise? So it's no surprise that their games aren't selling like hotcakes there anymore. And Xbox is basically Sega at this point, so no surprise on that front either. But it's still crazy that PC's game sales overtook Playstation's!

I wanna say I feel like Streamers helped carry them during Lockdown and sometime after the restrictions were lifted.

I've been watching Vtubers for nearly 2 years now, and all I've seen them do is take promotion deals from the likes of Capcom, or not and just playing Resident Evil 4 and the like. The majority of them being PC gamers or playing on that platform, which in turn would have chat likely buying it on that platform. 

Word of mouth is still strong on the net, I'd say more so than marketing, these days I mean (a decade or more ago, marketing was more of a king). 

Also Capcom made a deal with GoG recently to release their OG Resi 1-3 games on that storefront, which of course had word of mouth spreading, friends buying, streamers playing it online, etc. 

Last edited by Chazore - on 30 October 2024