Is Capcom bringing back even more dormant series?!

Let's go. All right. So, big spot today that starts uh Capcom financial reports, their fiscal reports came out. You get to see how good games are doing, how good games have done. There was a lot of games already that came out this year. They released a whole bunch uh early 2026. There's some pretty interesting things about their dormant IPs and what's going to be happening in the future in here. So, let's start scrolling through and uh take a look at this thing. Pragmata 2 is already green lit. I don't know about that. So, here's some pretty interesting stuff. Resident Evil Reququum is getting close to 7 million units sold already. And the craziest news in here, or was it Devil May Cry 5 pushed another 2.7 million copies, dude? What in the hell? And DMC 5 is at currently 12 million. Wait, did I read that wrong? Is that 270,000? DMC 5 is at 12 million. Oh my god, dude. Big sales and stuff. Yeah, dude. Capcom does big sales and that probably contribute contributes to it. Uh, Street Fighter 6 is closing in on 7 million. Uh, it'll probably get there within the next quarter. Here's the crazy one. The best selling Resident Evil game of them all is indeed RE5. closing in on nearly 20 million units sold for RE5. Holy guacamole, dude. And has now taken the crown. It's 1.9 million. This is by tens thousands of units. So that is 19 million. All that assist me money. Here's the other kind of interesting part. Monster Hunter Wilds has not moved very much at all. Even with the big updates and [ __ ] they pushed another like 100,000. They're still at uh 11 million. Sunbreak is doing pretty good. Rise did even better, dude. Sunbreak and Rise out selling wilds still. Let's go down a little bit more. Um, amusement equipment, other business, esports. It re you realize that Capcom is not that crazy diverse, digital contents, digital arcade ops, amusement equipment, and other businesses. Like, I guess this is technically counting it as esports. I guess even licensing and IP probably only has so much. Like, Capcom isn't that diverse of a company. They really focus on like mega game sales and stuff like that. 2026 and 2027 plans. Let me see if I can get an idea of where this is. Operating margin, ordinary profit. So, they're expecting a little more in the 2027 year-over-year. No mega games mentioned in here, but they are expecting they released quite a bit of games this year, dude. Like, that's the crazy thing. Like, there was a sizable amount of Capcom stuff that came out this year, dude. They're actually expecting more next year which is kind of crazy. Targeting global sales profit will release new titles and catalog title sales. New IP pragmata released in April. Onimusha is released this year. So it's not it's definitely this year. Digital units over the share is 93% dude that is crazy. PC digital up to 54% and console digital representing 38% of that. That physical units only represent 7% of their game sales. Now, I think Capcom is really smart about their sales distribution. It's also even crazier that Capcom is just now a PC company. It happened, dude. And it's not even small. It's almost like 20%. Like, holy crap. Their physical units are down 20%. And their digital is up 17. Like, that's crazy. And as as a heads up, what that means is that Capcom makes more money off this stuff. They make more money here than making discs and making boxes and all that kind of stuff. Japanese units representing only 10% of the the the selling the selling margin. 90% goes to overseas. Well, this these [ __ ] are definitely a global company. Now, that was their goal like 10 years ago was to become a global company. My god, dude. 90% units from overseas sales now. Jesus, dude. Whatever their plan was, it's working. 2027 plan. Plan to continue diversification of store formats. opened nine new stores, 70 stores, focusing on offering experimental value on site, amusement equipment, other businesses. Uh, the movie continuing leveraging IP through multifaceted initiatives, Capcom Cup stuff, season 2 at Devil May Cry, live action Street Fighter movie, esports and media. It was up this year and they're expecting it to go down next year. So, they don't have a lot of stuff planned outside of that. Capcom philosophy stuff to be a company that captivates people around the world with our best-in-class immersive combat or damn it. I wish it said combat but content. Damn it. Okay. 10% annual growth. Growth yada yada yada. Market overview. Resident Evil peaked at or just crossed 200 million units sold across the franchise history. Uh Monster Hunter hit 127. Street Fighter getting close to 60. Damn. Marvel vs. Capcom sitting here pretty. Look at it. Look at it right here. It'll never leave. Check this out. And this is the big one. nurturing brands to be the next engine of growth. Leading brands with new IPs, sequels, remakes, and ports. They mentioned specifically their leading brands as Devil May Cry, Mega Man, Dead Rising, Onimusha, Ace Attorney Dragons, Dogma, and Okami. Which is funny because that's got a thing. That just had a thing. This don't have a thing currently. That's got a thing. That's got a thing. Like half of these actually have known things that are happening. Dragon's Dogmakopium being in there is pretty nuts. That is a long time to have DLC, dude. You might as well just do drag, you might as well just call it Dragon's Dogma 3 at this point. If there's a new Dragon's Dogma thing somewhere in the future and they're actually doing something with DD in some way, 2027, it's been 3 years, you know? Might as well just call that Dragon's Dogma 3, especially after like, and this is an interesting thing after what many teams have been talking about, AI to utilize important development efficiency and productivity stuff, which is fine. tools to streamline routine tasks free up time for creative work, which is fine. Um, but generative AI use illustration. It's described as time used in routine tasks with development processes, research, draft generation, user analysis, interactive manuals, error checks, meeting notes. The term Gen AI is so weird here because it's like, are we actually making stuff? Because AI doing [ __ ] tasks that take too much time is good. I'm trying to make sense of what the hell this means. generative AI as in like creating artwork, you know, that is not good. But they specifically ti tie it to to utilize improvement in development efficiency and productivity, which is kind of like the [ __ ] we were talking about before. Not vibe coding, testing collision and [ __ ] like that. Like the the most basic rudimentary understanding of that is testing collision is something that you have to do on a ton of games and mundane [ __ ] that people don't want to do and you can spend time bug testing not everything but mundane [ __ ] so that you can actually get people that are good at doing things on more important stuff. That's a weird thing especially considering how anti- AAI they publicly have been especially with uh after the Resident Evil fiasco. You know that seems to be about it. The craziest thing is them directly acknowledging uh directly acknowledging nurturing brands to be the next engine of growth. And let's go up to this diagram up here which is interesting looking. Grow consumer title sales through marketing initiatives and expand the fan base with multifaceted IP use. So digital and global sales, pricing, catalog sales that go into business, arcade ops, amusement media, character licensing, expand the fan base. I that makes sense. It's kind of what they have been doing. They consider those three main IP their business model. I got you. Between Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter. I mean, that makes sense. You know why I'm curious on this [ __ ] What is the future? To me, it's like I get where the future is for the majority of Capcom stuff. The future is over here. The future is within these IP brands that they're looking at that they want to expand upon. They're big IPs. They are once again triple dipple nippling down on their big IPs and making them come back in a big way, which is smart. and there's a commitment to it to also leverage that with new IP every once in a while. However, it leads me to wonder like where the hell does the future go for the fighting game side. They're all doing very good. Games are being made, dude. Like, we have to keep making stuff. It's clear that Street Fighter isn't going anywhere. Like, where it goes from here is going to be pretty interesting if it gets changed at all. if this is the ultra Street Fighter 5, you know, but at this point it's like if we get an announcement this year for the next Capcom fighting game in some way, that will still have been four years ago that Street Fighter 6 came out. No, 3 years. It'll be 3 years. By the time it comes out, it would be like four years. Even if it was announced next month. So, regardless if that's CBS 3, regardless if that's Marvel vs. Capcom, which it's not, regardless if it's Capcom Allstars or Darkstalkers or anything, um or a new IP. They could legit do a new IP fighting game, which would be fascinating considering they have so many characters to work with. It seems like that should have that should have happened significantly earlier, but I feel like we forget that the Capcom Fighting Division was releasing a ton of [ __ ] over the past few years in the form of these Capcom Fighting Collection 1 and 2 and MVC collection. Dude, it it's not like they haven't been doing nothing. They pretty much gave us almost every single Capcom fighting game we've been bitching for for a very long time, and they all became real in some way. So, it's not like they've been gone and only working on Street Fighter. No, there's definitely there's definitely been stuff that's happening. This is fascinating. Company's doing good. I'm really curious what the heck the future is for uh the fighting game side because there is very little fighting game talk in here outside of just Street Fighter continuing in some way. You know what I mean? Heat.