TL; Dr: Capcom’s newest monetary report highlights a serious shift within the firm’s enterprise: PC gaming, and particularly Steam, has turn out to be a dominant income driver. Within the final fiscal 12 months, most of Capcom’s sport gross sales have been on PC, and Steam alone introduced in thrice extra income than PlayStation. The numbers replicate not only a platform desire however a broader realignment in how and the place Capcom reaches its viewers.
Capcom’s securities report for the fiscal 12 months ended March 31 (by way of Gamebiz) exhibits that Steam accounted for 31% of the corporate’s income. Capcom’s income from the platform, and by extension its PC gaming income, grew by roughly 38%.
Gross sales of video games on Steam generated 52.7 billion yen (about $363.4 million) for Capcom over the last fiscal 12 months, up from the earlier 12 months’s 225 million {dollars}. Monster Hunter Wilds, which turned some of the performed video games in Steam’s historical past on the day it launched, was doubtless a big contributor regardless of being launched close to the top of the fiscal interval. Ongoing gross sales of earlier main releases and again catalog re-releases additionally doubtless performed a task.
The report additionally exhibits that Steam’s share of Capcom’s income rose sharply from April 2024 to March 2025, growing from 21 % to multiple third. Though Capcom was as soon as primarily recognized for arcade and console titles, PC gaming income has since surpassed that of PlayStation.
Whereas the report doesn’t specify PlayStation’s income share for the latest fiscal 12 months, it was simply 10.5 % the 12 months prior, and Steam’s continued progress has doubtless pushed it beneath 10 %. The report consists of income from all components of the corporate, not simply from digital and bodily sport gross sales.
Though Capcom expects to earn extra from consoles than PC via 2027, and sure receives most of its income from cell, digital PC sport gross sales – most of which happen on Steam – already account for almost all of its unit gross sales.
A current presentation revealed that out of the 51 million video games Capcom bought within the final fiscal 12 months, 28 million have been digital PC video games. This marks a big shift from just some years in the past.
Capcom lately unveiled Resident Evil Requiem, the newest mainline entry in its horror franchise, which is anticipated to be a key launch within the present fiscal 12 months until it’s delayed from its scheduled launch date of February 27, 2026. Two further main titles, Onimusha: Method of the Sword and the long-awaited Pragmata, are anticipated to play a equally necessary function within the following fiscal 12 months.
