Capcom confirms Resident Evil and Monster Hunter make up over 50% of total units, and they expect “this ratio to continue increasing”

Leon S Kennedy and Grace Ashcroft from Resident Evil Requiem

Published:

March 3 2026

Last Updated on 3 March 2026

By:

Lewis White

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Resident Evil and Monster Hunter gaming giant Capcom has announced plans to further invest in PC game development as the platform continues to make up more of the industry’s market share.

Capcom has released a number of unfortunate PC ports over the years, including the recent Monster Hunter Wilds, but the Japanese game developer is hoping to improve the quality of PC releases for the future.

In an update during the company’s shareholders discussion, Capcom confirmed that PC ports of their game now make up 50% of overall sales. This means that half of all game sales for the company are split across Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo platforms.

Additionally, Capcom revealed that it “expect[s] this ratio to continue increasing” as more players jump from console to PC. With this in mind, the company confirmed that it will “strengthen our PC development framework” with “technical expertise gained from addressing increasing program complexity and performance challenges in Monster Hunter Wilds”.

Capcom’s latest release, Resident Evil Requiem, has been a massive hit on PC, breaking over 340,000 players in concurrent real-time on the platform. While prior games in the series were popular on PC, Requiem has managed to hit peaks that exceed the combined peak player count of both Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village.

While consoles certainly aren’t unpopular with systems like Nintendo Switch 2 still breaking records compared to previous generations, the hardcore gamer is increasingly moving to the PC platform, especially as the Xbox brand continues to shoot itself in the foot year-on-year.

With most console exclusives, bar Nintendo releases, jumping to PC either on launch or after a year or two, the PC platform remains the ultimate way to play pretty much anything. Despite some rough ports, the flexibility of PC is becoming more and more important for gamers, even in the face of ballooning costs.

Following this statement regarding PC performance, Capcom has also removed its controversial DRM solution from its Resident Evil 4 Remake. Added years after launch, this new DRM solution almost halved players’ performance with no benefit whatsoever.

Capcom’s next major release is the upcoming sci-fi action game, Pragmata. Set to launch on April 24, 2026, the game has already seen praise from fans following a demo release on all platforms.

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Lewis White

Lewis White is a veteran games journalist with over a decade in the field. Starting with beloved Xbox website ICXM/XboxMAD, Lewis became the Gaming Editor at MSPoweruser before becoming the Editor in Chief of StealthOptional and Gfinityesports. Lewis later jumped to By Gamers For Gamers where he jumped to become EIC of VideoGamer and the host of the New VideoGamer Podcast prior to the website’s acquisition.

Over the years, Lewis has also seen long-form investigative pieces published in outlets such as Eurogamer, PCGamesN, Wireframe, Retro Gamer, Nintendo Life, and EDGE. Now, as the Editor in Chief of FRVR Blog, Lewis strives to bring the same level of quality journalism with interview-led content to the site in both written and audio form with the FRVR Podcast.

With a First Degree BA Hons in Games Journalism and Public Relations, Lewis has been a stable part of the British games press for over a decade, and has frequently displayed his love of Halo, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and other games pretty much everywhere he’s worked. And FRVR is no different.

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