Haruhiro Tsujimoto, President of Capcom, has revealed during a new corporate report that it is aiming to grow a number of key franchises including Ace Attorney, Devil May Cry, and Mega Man into “core IPs” similar to major series such as Monster Hunter and Resident Evil.
The executive revealed that Capcom is targeting game sales of 100 million annually, with ‘core IPs’ including Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, and Street Fighter as key franchise in achieving this. However, he noted that other series’ under Capcom’s belt must also be grown to reach this goal.
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At Capcom, we aim to sustain our KPI of 10% or better annual operating profit growth along with our long-term goal of annual software sales of 100 million units. To improve our chance of success, we are working to resolve business challenges, issue by issue.
Our efforts are focused on core IP such as the Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, and Street Fighter franchises, and mapping out mainline series entries and sequels, remakes, new IP, and ports of content to the latest hardware. We consistently release two to three major new titles each year, but recognize the need to grow our pipeline going forward.
Capcom owns a wealth of globally popular brands, such as Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney. We aim to expand our user base and improve our performance through new releases, remakes, and ports of titles in these series to new hardware. By enhancing brand power and cultivating loyal fan bases, we will grow these into core IPs.
Resident Evil is by far Capcom’s biggest-selling franchise to date with over 170 million units moved worldwide since its inception in March 1996. The series is marking its 30th anniversary next year, and Capcom will be releasing the next mainline entry, Resident Evil Requiem, in February 2026.
Monster Hunter is quite interesting as it originally started out as very popular in Japan, but was more of a niche franchise in the US and Europe. However, starting with Monster Hunter World, the series gained huge mainstream success and by July 2022 ranked as Capcom’s single biggest-selling title in history with 21 million copies sold.
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