{"id":137179,"date":"2026-05-13T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-201121"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:30:00","slug":"capcom-continues-to-demonstrate-why-its-the-current-industry-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/13\/capcom-continues-to-demonstrate-why-its-the-current-industry-darling\/","title":{"rendered":"Capcom Continues To Demonstrate Why It’s The Current Industry Darling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Capcom has released its end-of-year financial report<\/a>, delivering yet another record year for the company with lots of big numbers going up and up.<\/p>\n

In short, it’s achieved 13 consecutive years of operating profit growth, of which 11 of those were consecutively over 10%. That’s kind of astonishing. If that wasn’t quite enough, mind you, it’s also confirmed that FY2026 marked the highest consolidated sales and operating profit in the company’s history.<\/p>\n

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Curiously, its plan for FY2027 is to achieve 8% operating profit growth, breaking that 11-year streak. Still, it fully intends for the numbers to keep going up, so that’s really all it’s bothered about.<\/p>\n

The highlight for the year, of course, is Resident Evil Requiem<\/a>, which sold 6.91 million units (though a previous celebratory post from director Koshi Nakanishi indicated the game reached 7 million<\/a>). RE and Devil May Cry 5<\/a> were the main winners (with the latter boosted by the Netflix show), but Street Fighter 6<\/a> also performed well, shifting over 2 million units thanks in part to its release on the Switch 2.<\/p>\n

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Looking ahead, Capcom has Onimusha: Way of the Sword<\/a> in the pipeline, while it’s also highlighted the impending release of the Street Fighter<\/strong> movie in October and the second season of Devil May Cry<\/strong> on Netflix. No mention of Zach Cregger’s RE<\/strong> movie though. Weird.<\/p>\n

It also seems particularly keen to nurture brands outside of RE and Monster Hunter<\/strong> too, specifically calling out Mega Man<\/strong>, Devil May Cry, Okami<\/strong>, Ace Attorney<\/strong>, Dead Rising<\/strong>, and Dragon’s Dogma<\/strong>. We know Capcom is working on Mega Man: Dual Override<\/a> for 2027, while developer Clovers is also working on a direct sequel to Okami<\/a>. Are even more on the horizon..?<\/p>\n

Exciting times ahead then, though we do wonder how long Capcom can maintain constant growth year-on-year.<\/p>\n

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