Capcom Just Had Its Best Quarter Ever, and Resident Evil Quietly Passed Final Fantasy on the Way

The two big 2026 launches both showed up strong. Resident Evil Requiem, which released on February 26, has now passed 8 million copies sold worldwide, roughly 8.06 million by Capcom's count, and it added another 1.14 million in this quarter alone. That is a mainline Resident Evil doing exactly what a mainline Resident Evil is supposed to do. We scored Requiem a 9.1, and the sales curve suggests plenty of players agree it is one of the series' better modern entries.

Pragmata is the more surprising line item. Capcom's long-delayed sci-fi project finally shipped on April 16, and after years of skepticism about whether a brand new IP could find an audience, it has moved past 2.5 million copies in its first full quarter. We gave Pragmata an 8.8, and a debut of that size is a real vote of confidence for an original property in a market that usually rewards sequels. Older titles pitched in too: Resident Evil 4 alone sold another 2.43 million copies in the quarter, years after its 2023 remake.

The headline Capcom watchers seized on was not a single game but a series. On the strength of this quarter, the Resident Evil franchise has crossed 213 million lifetime units, edging past Final Fantasy at roughly 212 million. That makes Resident Evil the best-selling Japanese game series that is not published by Nintendo, sitting behind only Super Mario and Pokemon in the all-time Japanese rankings.

There is a second changing of the guard inside the franchise itself. The 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake has now reached 19.75 million copies, overtaking Resident Evil 5 to become the best-selling entry in the series' history, a record RE5 had held for the better part of two decades. Taken together, the two facts tell you how Capcom got here: not one runaway hit, but a remake strategy and a horror brand that keep compounding, quarter after quarter.

It is easy to read a financial report as a stack of numbers with no bearing on what you actually play. This one matters because it validates the exact strategy that has defined Capcom's decade: keep the RE Engine humming, keep remaking the classics with real care rather than a lazy coat of paint, and take the occasional swing on something new like Pragmata. When that formula prints record quarters, the incentive to keep doing it only grows, which is good news if you like polished Capcom action and horror.

The company reaffirmed a full-year forecast of around 210 billion yen in profit, which would set another record if it holds. The obvious question now is what fills the pipeline behind Requiem and Pragmata. Capcom has trained its audience to expect a steady drip of remakes and mainline entries, and a quarter like this one is exactly the sort of result that keeps that machine funded and moving.