{"id":112730,"date":"2020-05-08T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/362671"},"modified":"2020-05-08T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:10:00","slug":"sales-down-profits-up-at-capcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/08\/sales-down-profits-up-at-capcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales down, profits up at Capcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Monster Hunter<\/em> publisher Capcom reported Friday a year on year decline in annual sales, but a jump in profits for its full fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the past year is the seventh consecutive year of operating income growth and the fourth year in a row of record-high profits.<\/p>\n<p>Sales for the fiscal year ended March 31 were 82 billion yen ($770 million), down 18 percent compared to the previous year, while operating income was up 26 percent to 23 billion yen.<\/p>\n<p>The company attributed the profit increase to high-margin digital sales. Games including <em>Monster Hunter World: Iceborne<\/em>, and catalog sales of <em>Resident Evil 2<\/em> and <em>Devil May Cry 5<\/em> helped drive sales during the year. Capcom&#8217;s new pachislot game <em>Shin Onimusha<\/em> also experienced better than expected sales.<\/p>\n<p>For the current fiscal year, Capcom expects net sales of 85 billion yen and operating income of 26 billion yen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monster Hunter publisher Capcom reported Friday a year on year decline in annual sales, but a jump in profits for its full fiscal year. The company said the past year is the seventh consecutive year of operating income growth and the fourth year in a row of record-high profits. Sales for the fiscal year ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112730","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\/112730","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=112730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}