Thanks to Resident Evil 4, Capcom’s stock prices hit record highs. Analysts predict impressive sales results for the new release.
The past few years have been exceptionally successful for Capcom, and the publisher’s latest hit, the Resident Evil 4 remake, has pushed its stock price to the highest level ever achieved.
- Yesterday, Capcom’s stock price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose first to 4,850 yen and then to 4,865 yen. This is the highest level in the history of this company.
- Analysts expected the stock to rise for a while and encouraged their customers to buy it due to the release of Resident Evil 4.
- It was pointed out that Resident Evil 4 received better reviews than last year’s Resident Evil Village (this game has an average rating of 84% on Opencritic, while RE4 is 92%).
- Some analysts predict that sales of Resident Evil 4 it will exceed 10 million copies a year after its release.
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Constant growth
Capcom’s good fortune is the result of the past few years. In 2016, the stock price barely exceeded 1,000 yen. Things started to change in 2017, when Resident Evil VII: Biohazard debuted, updating the formula of the series and convincing many new users to play the game. A year later, the company is doing the same with its other major brand, by launching Monster Hunter: World, which remains to this day the biggest commercial success of the Japanese publisher’s production.
The following years saw the development of both brands with productions such as Resident Evil 2, Monster Hunter: Rise, Resident Evil 3, Monster Hunter: World – Iceborne or Resident Evil Village. All of these items have been a hit, even the coldest received RE3 has already found over 6.4 million buyers. Devil May Cry 5 also did well, with sales exceeding 6.5 million units.
Resident Evil 4 Remake is launching for PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.