The Vast Majority of Capcom's 2026 Game Sales Have Been Digital

Capcom’s Q1 study for the 2026 fiscal twelvemonth is out, and it’s making a batch of players uneasy.

A speedy look astatine the information shows that an overwhelming bulk of Capcom's income for Q1 2026 were integer — a whopping 93.3% of them, successful fact, including some caller releases and older games. That leaves lone 6.7% for carnal media sales, thing that players can’t assistance but consciousness antsy about, fixed the imminent decease of carnal discs for PlayStation games starting January 2028.

A person look astatine these numbers shows that 60.4% of these integer income were for PC, portion conscionable 32.9% were for consoles. This breakdown doesn’t travel arsenic a monolithic surprise, fixed that carnal disc drives haven’t precisely been a happening connected PCs for the past decennary oregon so, but it’s inactive notable.

This quality has sparked rather the statement among fans online, with immoderate wondering whether oregon not the integer income fig doesn’t see DLC contented locked down digital-only purchases, oregon however it’s breached down per game. We can’t cognize however galore integer income of older games made up this magnitude (the caller Resident Evil Steam merchantability comes to mind), for instance, oregon however galore newer releases are liable for it, though Capcom did accidental that the Resident Evil bid was mostly to convey for this high.

Resident Evil is seeing a immense surge successful popularity arsenic of late, precocious rising to go the 3rd highest-selling crippled franchise wrong Japan, lone down Pokemon and Mario. There’s besides been a monolithic displacement successful the astir fashionable crippled successful the RE series, with this aforesaid income information showing that Resident Evil 2 has yet dethroned RE 5 arsenic the best-selling entry, ending its 15-year-long ascendant streak.

While we don’t cognize the nonstop breakdown down Capcom’s latest income data, it’s surely shedding a stark airy connected the aboriginal of carnal media, which is looking progressively dim pursuing Sony’s hugely unpopular determination to halt producing existent crippled discs. Although players person made their feelings known by flooding remark sections with protestations and adjacent readying a full PlayStation blackout, the numbers don’t similar — and it looks similar astir players are progressively trending toward integer games.

Capcom, for its part, hasn't made immoderate plans to halt the accumulation of carnal crippled discs. In fact, the institution stated successful a shareholder Q&A study that it volition proceed to marque carnal discs, arsenic a "significant number" of players inactive request them.

Virginia (she/her) is IGN’s News Editor. With 10 years of acquisition reporting connected games and entertainment, she’s got a storied inheritance successful the warring crippled community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her connected Twitter astatine @TheeMissGlaze.