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Capcom sales down year-over-year, due to lack of 'major titles'
Capcom released its earnings for the first half of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 (which puts the halfway point at September 30). Net sales are down year-over-year, from 40.7 billion yen ($522 million) in 2010 to 29.3 billion yen ($375.1 million) in 2011. Net income is down 878 million yen ($11.3 million). Capcom attributes the downward trend to the fact that "no major titles were launched in Consumer Online Games business." As for the titles that did come out in that period, Capcom sold 450,000 units of the Japan-only Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver., the PS3 port of the PSP hit. Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition brought Oni into 400,000 homes worldwide, and Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D also sold 400,000 worldwide. "These figures are shipment volumes," president Haruhiro Tsujimoto noted in his summary of the results, "so digital downloads are on top of those figures." The second half of Capcom's year will be anchored by the December 10 launch of Monster Hunter Tri-G in Japan (of which Capcom expects to sell 1.2 million copies), and Dragon's Dogma (1.5 million), Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (2 million), and Street Fighter X Tekken (2 million) worldwide. Oh, and Snoopy's Street Fair for iPhone. In a Q&A, the publisher said it "will consider launching [Monster Hunter Tri-G] overseas," but hasn't come to a decision yet. Capcom also announced that it's merging its North American subsidiaries, Capcom USA and Capcom Entertainment, Inc. In other news, Capcom had two North American subsidiaries.
'PSP Remaster' titles head to PS3 with help from the 'PSP Engine'
Sony has revealed the PSP Engine, a middleware technology that bridges games from PlayStation Portable to the PlayStation 3 -- specifically, the titles related to Sony's "PSP Remaster" series. The company announced the technology during a session of the Games Tools & Middleware Forum 2011 this week, reports Famitsu (via Andriasang). According to the report, PSP Engine offers some major boons in PSP-to-PS3 HD porting, including high-resolution rendering, stereoscopic 3D output, and wireless controller support for the DualShock 3. No other "Remaster" titles were announced at the event, though it seems even more likely now that we'll see other games get the same treatment as Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. Though the PSP Remaster banner has only been announced for Japan so far, it hasn't stopped other publishers from rolling out remastered versions of other PSP games. Sony itself confirmed the God of War Origins collection during E3 this year.
Capcom expects big PS3 sales this year
Capcom sent out a new chart today, containing information about the number of games it shipped for various platforms in the past, and -- more interestingly -- the number of games it plans to ship in the next fiscal year (through March 2012), along with estimated shipment numbers. The company has massive confidence in its 16-title PS3 lineup, expecting to ship 8 million units of those games. Capcom's Xbox 360 lineup, on the other hand, is 14 games strong and only projected to ship 4.7 million copies. And now we'll skip a few sentences of hypotheses and just say that of course the difference is Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD. The chart also shares the sad news that Capcom does not plan to ship any new GameCube titles in the next year.
Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD footage shows the PSP Remaster polish
Want to know what kind of visual sprucing-up you can expect from Sony's recently announced "PSP Remaster" series? Check out the Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD trailer posted after the jump to see the Blu-ray spitshine the action-RPG's graphics will undergo when the game arrives on PS3!
