Resident Evil and Monster Hunter are Capcom's most successful franchises: the Japanese company has updated sales figures for its "platinum" games

By: Anton Kratiuk | 13.02.2024, 20:09
Resident Evil and Monster Hunter are Capcom's most successful franchises: the Japanese company has updated sales figures for its "platinum" games

Capcom has updated sales figures for its "platinum" games.

Here's What We Know

As of 31 December 2023, sales of the Resident Evil franchise stood at 154 million copies, up 4 million from 30 September.

The most popular games in the series are:

  • Resident Evil 4 remake - 1 million people have bought it in 3 months, with cumulative sales (since March 2023) totalling 6.4 million copies;
  • Resident Evil 2 remake - 500 thousand copies sold in 3 months, totalling 13.6 million since 2019;
  • Resident Evil Village - 600k copies in three months and 9.3 million copies sold since release in 2021.

According to fresh information, Street Fighter 6 sales have already surpassed 3 million copies, but as of 31 December, the figure was 2.9 million copies. From September to December, 500 thousand copies of the fighting game were sold.

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne circulation reached 11.6 million copies, and for 3 months the game was bought by 900 thousand people.

Capcom's most successful franchises:

  • Dragon's Dogma - 8.4 million (+500 thousand in 3 months);
  • Monster Hunter - 97 million (+2 million for 3 months);
  • Street Fighter - 53 million (+1 million in 3 months);
  • Resident Evil - 154 million (+4 million in 3 months);
  • Ghost n' Goblins - 4.5 million (+100k in 3 months).

Source: Capcom