Capcom says it has no plans to stop the production of its physical games despite just reporting that 90% of its sales now are digital. The company claimed this much during the latest Q&A summary of its 45th ordinary general shareholder meeting, stating that there’s still a high demand for physical games on the market to completely halt its production.
“Given that a significant number of end users demand physical games, we do not expect to eliminate physical products,” said Capcom (via Video Games Chronicle) when asked about the outlook of its physical games production. During the 2023 fiscal year, Capcom announced that a whopping 90.1% of its sales came from digital purchases. The company forecasts that it will reach over 93% during the current financial year.
While Capcom is still releasing its bigger titles physically and digitally, it seems like smaller titles from the studio are getting digital-only releases. The recently-released Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, for example, was only released digitally. Capcom hasn’t announced any plans for physical versions of the game, though we can probably expect one down the road. Alan Wake 2 released digitally first before the demand became high enough for Remedy Entertainment to release a physical version of the award-winning game.
Ever since Capcom’s resurgence in the gaming industry following the releases of critically acclaimed titles like Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and Monster Hunter World, the company has reported a well-earned seven years of record profits with no signs of slowing down.
It seems like more and more players are slowly gravitating towards a digital-only future for video games. As it stands, a vast majority of sales for games are happening digitally with most physical sales coming from regions without stable internet or those that want the pricier collector’s editions of games – some don’t even come with physical copies these days.
Source: Video Games Chronicle
