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TL;DR: Capcom’s newest monetary report highlights a significant shift within the firm’s enterprise: PC gaming, and particularly Steam, has turn into a dominant income driver. Within the final fiscal yr, most of Capcom’s sport gross sales had been on PC, and Steam alone introduced in thrice extra income than PlayStation. The numbers mirror not only a platform desire however a broader realignment in how and the place Capcom reaches its viewers.
Capcom’s securities report for the fiscal yr ended March 31 (via Gamebiz) shows that Steam accounted for 31% of the corporate’s income. Capcom’s income from the platform, and by extension its PC gaming income, grew by roughly 38%.
Gross sales of video games on Steam generated 52.7 billion yen (about $363.4 million) for Capcom over the last fiscal yr, up from the earlier yr’s 225 million {dollars}. Monster Hunter Wilds, which grew to become one of the crucial performed video games in Steam’s historical past on the day it launched, was seemingly a big contributor regardless of being launched close to the tip of the fiscal interval. Ongoing gross sales of earlier main releases and again catalog re-releases additionally seemingly performed a job.
The report additionally exhibits that Steam’s share of Capcom’s income rose sharply from April 2024 to March 2025, rising from 21 % to multiple third. Though Capcom was as soon as primarily identified for arcade and console titles, PC gaming income has since surpassed that of PlayStation.
Whereas the report doesn’t specify PlayStation’s income share for the latest fiscal yr, it was simply 10.5 % the yr prior, and Steam’s continued development has seemingly pushed it beneath 10 %. The report consists of income from all elements of the corporate, not simply from digital and bodily sport gross sales.
Though Capcom expects to earn extra from consoles than PC by 2027, and certain receives most of its income from cellular, digital PC sport gross sales – most of which happen on Steam – already account for almost all of its unit gross sales.
A latest presentation revealed that out of the 51 million video games Capcom offered within the final fiscal yr, 28 million had been digital PC video games. This marks a big shift from only a few years in the past.
Capcom just lately unveiled Resident Evil Requiem, the most recent mainline entry in its horror franchise, which is predicted to be a key launch within the present fiscal yr except it’s delayed from its scheduled launch date of February 27, 2026. Two further main titles, Onimusha: Manner of the Sword and the long-awaited Pragmata, are anticipated to play a equally vital function within the following fiscal yr.
