Overview
- Capcom’s financial report released in late July shows 93.3% of its game sales are digital and just 6.7% are physical, with PC accounting for 60.4% of sales and consoles 32.9%.
- The company expects digital share to grow toward 95% over the next year, reinforcing the economics that led Sony to announce it will stop producing PlayStation discs beginning January 2028 and to repurpose manufacturing capacity.
- Capcom’s reporting treats Switch 2 game‑key cards as digital rather than physical, which narrows the publisher’s physical tally and affects cross‑platform comparisons.
- Consumers, brick‑and‑mortar retailers and advocacy groups have mounted petitions and legal complaints over the move away from discs, warning of impacts on resale, preservation and store livelihoods.
- Most of Capcom’s recent sales are back‑catalog and discounted digital purchases, a pattern that helps explain why publishers see little financial sense in keeping large disc runs and why the industry is likely to keep shifting to all‑digital distribution.