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

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Capcom’s Q1 report for the 2026 fiscal year is out, and it’s making a lot of players uneasy.

A quick look at

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shows that an overwhelming majority of Capcom's sales for Q1 2026 were digital — a whopping 93.3% of them, in fact, including both new releases and older games. That leaves only 6.7% for physical media sales, something that players can’t help but feel antsy about, given the imminent death of physical discs for

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games starting January 2028.

A closer look at these numbers shows that 60.4% of these digital sales were for PC, while just 32.9% were for consoles. This breakdown doesn’t come as a massive surprise, given that physical disc drives haven’t exactly been a thing on PCs for the last decade or so, but it’s still notable.

This news has sparked

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among fans online, with some wondering whether or not the digital sales figure doesn’t include DLC content locked behind digital-only purchases, or how it’s broken down per game. We can’t know how many digital sales of older games made up this amount (the recent Resident Evil Steam ***** comes to mind), for instance, or how many newer releases are responsible for it, though Capcom did say that the Resident Evil series was mostly to thank for this high.

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is seeing a huge surge in popularity as of late, recently rising to become the third highest-selling game franchise within Japan, only behind

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and

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. There’s also been a massive shift in the most popular game in the RE series, with this same sales data showing that

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as the best-selling entry, ending its 15-year-long dominant streak.

While we don’t know the exact breakdown behind Capcom’s latest sales data, it’s certainly shedding a stark light on the future of physical media, which is looking increasingly dim following Sony’s hugely unpopular decision to

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. Although players have made their feelings known by

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with protestations and even planning a

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, the numbers don’t like — and it looks like most players are increasingly trending toward digital games.

Capcom, for its part, hasn't made any plans to stop the production of physical game discs. In fact, the company stated in a

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that it will continue to make physical discs, as a "significant number" of players still demand them.

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