{"id":102715,"date":"2019-10-29T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/353058"},"modified":"2019-10-29T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:10:00","slug":"profit-up-at-capcom-thanks-to-strong-monster-hunter-world-iceborne-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/29\/profit-up-at-capcom-thanks-to-strong-monster-hunter-world-iceborne-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Profit up at Capcom thanks to strong Monster Hunter World: Iceborne sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom\u2019s sizable <em>Monster Hunter<\/em> expansion pack <em>Monster Hunter World: Iceborne<\/em> was the leading contributor to the company\u2019s profit in the first six months of the current fiscal year. That pack alone shipped 2.8 million units between its September 6 launch and the close of Q2 on September 30.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of titles released before the 2019-20 fiscal year kicked off made solid contributions to the company\u2019s profit as well, including <em>Resident Evil 2<\/em>, <em>Devil May Cry 5,<\/em> and, to a lesser extent, the base <em>Monster Hunter: World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Capcom as a whole reported operating income at 13.99&nbsp;billion yen (~$128.43 million) for the first half of the year, a 33.2 increase from the same period the year prior that Capcom credits to strong performance of those games listed above.<\/p>\n<p>Net sales, however, fell by 14 percent year-over-year to 37.27&nbsp;billion (~$342.16 million) for the six month period ending September 30, a decline Capcom partly explains as the result of \u201cpromoting the shift from physical package sales to digital sales.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking just at the digital contents business that houses Capcom\u2019s game development efforts, net sales were likewise down 14.7 percent year-over-year, coming in at 29.16&nbsp;billion yen (~$267.71 million), while operating income was up 23.4 percent from the preceding year, coming in at 14.5&nbsp;billion yen (~$133.12 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom\u2019s sizable Monster Hunter expansion pack Monster Hunter World: Iceborne was the leading contributor to the company\u2019s profit in the first six months of the current fiscal year. That pack alone shipped 2.8 million units between its September 6 launch and the close of Q2 on September 30. A handful of titles released before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}