With 90% of game sales stemming from digital sources, you’d expect Capcom to start leaning away from physical media to maximize its profits, but luckily for those physical media collectors, that’s not the case. The studio assumes its digital sales will increase this year, as well, to 93%.
During a shareholder Q&A (via VGC), the Monster Hunter World developer shared that enough end users are demanding physical games, so it will continue producing physical games.
“Given that a significant number of end users demand physical games, we do not expect to eliminate physical products…”
Now, that isn’t to say it doesn’t produce digital-only games, smaller titles like this month’s Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is releasing without a physical edition, major IPs such as Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Ace Attorney, and the like all release for most part with physical versions alongside the more convenient digital copy.
In general, digital gaming makes up a majority of games sold (to the tune of 72%). Considering how Capcom has always been a bit slow to adopt new trends, which isn’t as much of a bad thing as it sounds, it makes sense that it wants to continue to make physical versions of its games. Dragon’s Dogma 2 was its first $70 game, landing at an 8/10 for us. Obviously, more $70 games are on the table following the “moderate reception” from fans.
