Capcom Q1 2026: Digital Sales Hit 93.3%, Resident Evil Leads the Way

The Numbers Are Hard to Ignore

Capcom dropped its Q1 fiscal year 2026 report this week, and the headline figure is one that’s going to fuel plenty of conversations. According to the data, a staggering 93.3% of the company’s game sales during the quarter were digital. Physical media accounted for just 6.7%. That’s not a modest lean toward digital. That’s a near-total tilt.

Breaking it down further, PC represented 60.4% of those digital sales, with consoles picking up the remaining 32.9%. As reported by IGN, the PC-heavy skew isn’t exactly shocking. Physical disc drives have been something of a rarity on desktop and laptop machines for years now. Still, seeing the console slice sitting below a third of overall digital sales is a number worth sitting with.

Capcom credited the Resident Evil series as a major contributor to this quarter’s digital performance. A recent Resident Evil Steam sale almost certainly moved the needle, though the company hasn’t broken out exactly how much of the total came from catalog titles versus new releases. That ambiguity has fans asking reasonable questions online, including whether DLC locked behind digital-only purchases is folded into these figures.

Resident Evil Is Having a Moment

Beyond the broader digital conversation, the sales report contained a genuinely surprising footnote for longtime series fans. Resident Evil 2 has officially overtaken Resident Evil 5 as the best-selling game in the franchise. RE5 had held that spot for 15 years, which is a remarkable run for any single entry in a long-running series. The remake of RE2, released back in 2019, has apparently been steadily building toward this milestone.

The series itself is riding high in Japan, now ranking as the third highest-selling game franchise in the country, trailing only Pokemon and Mario. For a survival horror series to sit in that company is something.

Resident Evil Requiem, which launched in February 2026, is the most recent entry in the franchise and is listed as part of the context around these sales figures, though the exact contribution of any single title isn’t specified in the available data.

Physical Media’s Shrinking Corner

The 6.7% figure lands at a particularly charged moment in gaming. Sony announced it will stop producing physical PlayStation game discs starting in January 2028, a decision that drew immediate and sustained backlash from players. Comment sections filled up. A PlayStation blackout was organized in protest. The frustration is real and vocal.

Capcom, for its part, is not following Sony’s lead. The company stated in a shareholder Q&A report that it will keep making physical discs because a “significant number” of players still want them. That’s a meaningful commitment, even if the sales data suggests the audience for those discs is shrinking relative to the overall market.

The disconnect between what players say they want and what the numbers show they’re actually buying has always been a complicated one. Online, physical media advocates are loud and passionate. In practice, the convenience of digital purchases, combined with the growing absence of disc drives from both PCs and certain console SKUs, keeps pulling the numbers in one direction.

None of this means physical games are gone tomorrow. Capcom’s own statement is evidence of that. But when one of the industry’s most storied publishers reports that physical sales represent less than one in fourteen purchases, it’s a pretty clear picture of where the market is heading, even if the pace and the endpoint remain genuinely uncertain.