{"id":19779,"date":"2018-05-08T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317767"},"modified":"2018-05-08T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:17:00","slug":"capcom-sees-improved-profits-from-sales-of-monster-hunter-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/capcom-sees-improved-profits-from-sales-of-monster-hunter-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Capcom sees improved profits from sales of Monster Hunter: World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom published its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/english\/news\/html\/e180508b.html\">latest financial results\u00a0earlier today<\/a>, detailing\u00a0financial performance\u00a0for the year ended March 31\u00a02018.<\/p>\n<p>For the period spanning April 1 2017\u00a0to March\u00a031, 2018\u00a0net sales were reported as \u00a594.5 billion (~$867.5 million),\u00a0up 8.4 percent compared to the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese publisher called out its digital contents business as the key driver of this growth, citing <em>Monster Hunter: World<\/em> as a record-setting success that&#8217;s become the best-selling title in company history.<\/p>\n<p>Net sales from Capcom&#8217;s digital contents business came to\u00a0\u00a574.2 billion (~$681.1 million),\u00a0up 26.3 percent year-over-year from \u00a558.7 billion (~$538.8 million). Operating income was listed at \u00a519.1 billion yen, up 72.2 percent\u00a0from the previous fiscal year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The strong\u00a0sales of <em>Monster Hunter: World<\/em>\u00a0and other titles published by Capcom helped offset the &#8220;worsened conditions&#8221; of the company&#8217;s amusement equipments business, which saw net sales drop by 53.7 percent to \u00a57.8 billion (~$71.6 million).<\/p>\n<p>As for the upcoming year, Capcom\u00a0plans to continue growing its digital contents business by pushing for more download sales and increasing the number of major releases in the medium-term. The publisher also mentioned making\u00a0esports a &#8220;priority area of investment&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Capcom is estimating increased sales and profits for the next fiscal year, aiming\u00a0to reach March 2019 with net sales of \u00a596 billion (~$881.2 million) and operating income of \u00a517 billion (~$156 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom published its latest financial results\u00a0earlier today, detailing\u00a0financial performance\u00a0for the year ended March 31\u00a02018. For the period spanning April 1 2017\u00a0to March\u00a031, 2018\u00a0net sales were reported as \u00a594.5 billion (~$867.5 million),\u00a0up 8.4 percent compared to the previous fiscal year. The Japanese publisher called out its digital contents business as the key driver of this growth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19779","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\/19779","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=19779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}