Capcom’s Q1 report for the 2026 fiscal 12 months is out, and it’s making so much of gamers uneasy.
A fast have a look at the data exhibits that an amazing majority of Capcom’s gross sales for Q1 2026 have been digital — a whopping 93.3% of them, in truth, together with each new releases and older video games. That leaves solely 6.7% for bodily media gross sales, one thing that gamers can’t assist however really feel antsy about, given the approaching dying of bodily discs for PlayStation video games beginning January 2028.
A more in-depth have a look at these numbers exhibits that 60.4% of these digital gross sales have been for PC, whereas simply 32.9% have been for consoles. This breakdown doesn’t come as an enormous shock, on condition that bodily disc drives haven’t precisely been a factor on PCs for the final decade or so, but it surely’s nonetheless notable.
This information has sparked quite the debate amongst followers on-line, with some questioning whether or not or not the digital gross sales determine doesn’t embrace DLC content material locked behind digital-only purchases, or the way it’s damaged down per recreation. We are able to’t know what number of digital gross sales of older video games made up this quantity (the current Resident Evil Steam sale involves thoughts), as an illustration, or what number of newer releases are answerable for it, although Capcom did say that the Resident Evil collection was largely to thank for this excessive.
Resident Evil is seeing an enormous surge in reputation as of late, just lately rising to turn into the third highest-selling recreation franchise inside Japan, solely behind Pokemon and Mario. There’s additionally been an enormous shift in the preferred recreation within the RE collection, with this identical gross sales information displaying that Resident Evil 2 has lastly dethroned RE 5 because the best-selling entry, ending its 15-year-long dominant streak.
Whereas we don’t know the precise breakdown behind Capcom’s newest gross sales information, it’s actually shedding a stark gentle on the longer term of bodily media, which is trying more and more dim following Sony’s massively unpopular choice to cease producing precise recreation discs. Though gamers have made their emotions recognized by flooding remark sections with protestations and even planning a complete PlayStation blackout, the numbers don’t like — and it seems to be like most gamers are more and more trending towards digital video games.
Capcom, for its half, hasn’t made any plans to cease the manufacturing of bodily recreation discs. In reality, the corporate acknowledged in a shareholder Q&A report that it’ll proceed to make bodily discs, as a “vital quantity” of gamers nonetheless demand them.
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