Capcom posted its strongest first quarter in years, with net sales of ¥70.41 billion (US$430 million) — up 54.7% from the same period in 2025 — and operating profit of ¥41.05 billion (US$250 million), a 66.9% year-on-year jump, according to the company's consolidated results for the three months ended June 30, 2026 VGC.

The publisher sold 23.81 million game units across the quarter. That is nearly 10 million more than the 14.16 million it sold in the same window a year earlier.

Two recent releases carried the load. Resident Evil Requiem, which launched on February 27, 2026, pushed its cumulative sales past 8 million units. Pragmata, released April 17, 2026 — a sci-fi action title first announced years ago and long delayed — surpassed 2.5 million units sold worldwide. Pragmata had crossed one million by April 20 and two million by May 7, based on Capcom's own sales announcements.

The Resident Evil back catalogue did the heavy lifting beyond the new releases. Five separate Resident Evil titles each sold at least one million copies during the quarter alone. Lifetime totals now stand at 19.75 million for the Resident Evil 2 remake (2019), 18.41 million for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, 16.04 million for the Resident Evil 4 remake (2023), 15.86 million for Resident Evil Village, and 14.52 million for the Resident Evil 3 remake (2020).

Devil May Cry 5 added 1.29 million units in the quarter, bringing its lifetime total to 14.24 million. Capcom attributed that continued performance to the second season of the Devil May Cry anime series on Netflix — a case where a screen adaptation drove sales of a seven-year-old game.

What stands out here is the depth. Capcom did not need a single blockbuster to carry the quarter. One new Resident Evil, one new IP, and a back catalogue that keeps selling — five older Resident Evil games moving a million copies each in three months is the kind of long-tail performance most publishers cannot replicate.

The company left its full-year forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2027 unchanged: net sales of ¥210 billion (US$1.28 billion), up 7.5% year-on-year, and operating profit of ¥83 billion (US$506 million), up 10.2%. After a quarter this far ahead of last year's pace, that target looks conservative — but Capcom has not raised it.

Looking ahead, Capcom confirmed that Onimusha: Way of the Sword had its release date moved up to September 4, 2026, announced on July 2. That gives the publisher another potential driver of sales in the second quarter — a revival of a samurai-action series that has been dormant for over a decade.