Capcom FY2011 results: 5 million-sellers

By Robert Purchese Published 6 May, 2011

But mysteriously no SSFIV 3DS results.

The money-year is up for Capcom and the numbers are in. They're positive - very.

Sales were up 46 per cent on the year prior, amounting to a 258 per cent profit-leap to 7.8 billion yen (£59 million / $96 million).

PSP game Monster Hunter Freedom 3 "played the lead role in improving Capcom's business performance" with an enormous 4.6 million copies shipped in Japan alone. Capcom called it the "fastest selling" game in "PSP history".

PS3 and Xbox 360 newcomers Dead Rising 2 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds both sold more than 2 million copies (DR 2.2 million, MVC3 2 million).

Super Street Fighter IV (released at the beginning of Capcom's financial year) battled its way to a modest 1.6 million sales.

Lost Planet 2 managed 1.5 million sales.

"The result was a history-making milestone of five million-seller titles in total," said Capcom.

But where are the numbers for Super Street Fighter IV 3DS? They're nowhere to be seen on the money report.

In April, Capcom announced that more than 1 million copies of the new handheld game had been shipped around the world. Perhaps they didn't all sell. Super Street Fighter IV 3DS was released on 26th February in Japan, 25th March in Europe and 27th March in the US.

Capcom's financial year ended on 31st March 2011.

The veteran developer and publisher expects a less impressive take for the year ahead. Does that mean there's no Monster Hunter on the horizon for NGP launch?

Earlier this year, Capcom announced its biggest project ever, Dragon's Dogma, for release in 2012. Development of the game is lead by the producer and director of Devil May Cry 4.

Dragon's Dogma is an open world fantasy game about a hero who is given quests by a mysterious dragon. A special grab ability allows your hero to latch on to and climb huge monsters.

Wesley Yin-Poole took a much closer look at Capcom's exciting new game.

Capcom's New Hope: Dragon's Dogma.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • Architect_z #1 1 year ago

    SSFIV is good but can it beat Mortal Wombat?

  • MojoDex #2 1 year ago

    mortal wombats are easy to beat, it's the immortal ones that cause problems!

  • Machetazo #3 1 year ago

    For all the impact of S(S)FIV, it's handily beaten in sales by Dead Rising 2, and MvC3, both of which are available for less time, and anecdotally speaking, seem to be less popular - and they next intend to release the AE, as add-on, and standalone, to a similarly sized audience. It only barely outsold Lost Planet 2! Am I the only one caught off-guard by these revelations?

    No mention of DMC - are they intending to show it in action, at E3?

  • nickthegun #4 1 year ago

    Surprisingly good numbers for LP2

  • GamesConnoisseur #5 1 year ago

    Good for Capcom and games industry in general, as dont want the recent high profile closures to give an impression of industry in decline.

    As for 3DS game, SSFIV3DS... the system only launched in other regions at end of March, so possibly keeping announcement for other time re 3DS? Though the system and the game was out in Japan as noted, in the last quarter. So would thought to see a reference.

    Still a good performance.

  • Umang #6 1 year ago

    What's with the 3DS bashing... You've been doing it for quite some time... Is someone paying you to do so ?!?!? It's getting annoying, ya know....

  • TheEarlOfZinger #7 1 year ago

    @Umang

    I've increasingly noticed this too.

  • JahB #8 1 year ago

    What's with the 3DS bashing

    3rd party games not selling on specific platforms is legitimate news, since that's what usually leads to 3rd party devs not supporting a console (see Wii).

  • fizzyfish #9 1 year ago

    I was about to wade in here and whine childishly about the misleading title ("games that sold 5 million or 5 games that sold 1 million?";) but then Monster Hunter slapped me across the face with a wad of sales receipts. Impressive :)

  • Eraysor #10 1 year ago

    I really hope Capcom take this opportunity to make a new engine for the MH series. I love MH games to bits, but they've been using the exact same engine and animations for over 7 years now.

  • Mr.Spo #11 1 year ago

    Are these actual sales and not shipment figures? Now I know it says "sales" in the article, but it's unusual for publishers to be able to reveal sell through for games or hardware. What they usually announce are sales to retailers, or more accurately, shipment numbers of their products, in which case SFIV 3DS would simply be the 1 million copies shipped. Perhaps because they've all ready announced that milestone, they don't feel the need to include it in the financial report?

  • TonyHarrison #12 1 year ago

    Early sales data would suggest Street Fighter is the second best selling 3DS game, so I don't think there's anything to worry about.

    It's probably just a combination of them already announcing they've shipped 1million copies and the timing of the release in America and Europe, as you wouldn't learn much from first week (in fact it would be even less than that) sales on a new platform.

    That and all those numbers above appear to be shipped anyway.

  • Shadzter #13 1 year ago

    No news on Okamiden and Ghost Trick sales? I don't expect either to have sold that well, but I'd have still liked to see some sales numbers.

  • riz23 #14 1 year ago

    Stop stoking fires EG, and TonyHarrison is right. What is about 5 days worth of figures err... worth?

  • silversun #15 1 year ago

    The resident evil 3ds games might do a bit better than street fighter 4 , still a little bit of a way off though.