It became the top download in 62 countries aroud the world. It sold 4 million units faster than any other PSP game in history. Premiere of "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney", the first live-action feature film in its series.
Released home video game "Dragon's Dogma". Sold over one million units, unprecedented for a totally new brand. The Hollywood movie "Resident Evil: Retribution" was released and earned 0. It sold 4 million units with another "Monster Hunter Craze". Released "Dead Rising 3" for Xbox One.
It sold 1 million units as its first million selling title for Xbox One. Monster Hunter characters are featured for the first time in the Osaka Prefectural Police's vehicle-related crime awareness campaign. Monster Hunter: World becomes the first Capcom game to ship 10 million units globally. Mega Man series character is featured in the Osaka Prefectural Police's cyber-crime prevention awareness campaign for the first time.
Street Fighter series characters are featured in the Osaka Prefectural Police's cyber-crime investigator recruitment advertising for the first time. Opened Capcom Store Tokyo, the Company's first showroom, which offers an assortment of merchandise featuring popular game series and characters.
Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild , the first 3D animated movie adaptation of its popular Monster Hunter series, is streamed worldwide simultaneously. IR Calendar. Font Size. IR Website Press Release. May Established I. Established Tokyo Branch in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Released our first originally developed coin-op "Little League". Released the coin-op "Fever Chance". Opened "Acty 24", a video arcade under the direct management of Capcom. Capcom is a developer and publisher located in Osaka, Japan.
Capcom was founded on May 30, , then known as Japan Capsule Computers, a company dedicated to developed electronic game machines. As of , Capcom is one of the top fifty largest software companies in the world. Many of Capcom's franchises have been adapted into other forms of media. Resident Evil has had the most movie adaptations, with the latest film being Resident Evil: Extinction, and a fully CG movie based on the series that was released in late Resident Evil has also had many books, as well.
Darkstalkers had an anime adaption, one in North America and one in Japan. Power Stone was turned into an anime as well. Viewtiful Joe had an anime series that ran for a short while on 4Kids. Devil May Cry was an anime in Japan for some time. Three films based on the the Resident Evil games have been made, with a fourth installation set for release in Films for Devil May Cry and Clock Tower are also in production currently and are due to be released in Founded as IRM Corporation in in Matsubara, Osaka, the company began with the goal to develop electronic game machines.
A coin-operated game, Little League was released in , along with several other titles, such as Fever Chance. Capcom's first arcade game was released in Titled Vulgus, this game is a top-down shooter which helped to establish standards for Capcom's later games, such as the franchise.
In the years following, Capcom released a variety of their popular games, including Mega Man , Ghosts 'n' Goblins , Street Fighter , and Final Fight From the founding of Capcom, they have developed many of the gaming industry's most popular and longest running franchises. In their early days, developing games for the arcade, Capcom began many franchises that are still going on today. Their first game was released in , Vulgus , but the rest of their early arcade games were scrolling shooters.
Later, in , Capcom released the original Street Fighter. The franchise was not very well-received until its sequel was released in , Street Fighter II. The Street Fighter franchise is one of the most recognizable fighting franchises, and is one of Capcom's major successes.
Another one of Capcom's hit franchises was released in the arcade in He assembled a team headed by Akira Yasuda and Akira Nishitani, a pair of young artists. The fighting game innovated on the one-on-one fighter and brought it to a whole new level, with multiple unique characters, easier-to-perform special moves and ridiculously addictive gameplay.
After its completion, the company moved on to making one-on-one fighting games with the characters, starting with X-Men: Children of the Atom. Eventually, Capcom came up with a brilliant idea: pitting the X-Men against the cast of Street Fighter. In , Capcom released X-Men vs. Street Fighter in arcades. Extremely well received, the game introduced the tag team mechanic that would become a staple of the fast-paced Versus series.
Sequels to the game added more Marvel characters Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter and more Capcom characters Marvel vs.
Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes. Resident Evil didn't just serve as an example of survival horror; it defined the term. Capcom's marketing for the game was on-point, delivering an awesome gaming experience for newcomer Sony's first console, the PlayStation. When the game launched in March of , sales bloomed, establishing a new genre of gaming and a new franchise, as well as cementing Capcom as a force in the competitive system wars of the late '90s.
Street Fighter, thinking that was the name of a new game when, in reality, the article merely compared the two series. However, reality kicked in - Capcom signed a deal with rival company SNK to make games that included characters from both sides facing off against each other.
The Capcom vs. SNK games marked a return for the creators of the original Street Fighter. Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto came back to the series that they started in , because they worked at SNK at the time. Before the Wii and the PlayStation 3 even came out, Inafune, who was Capcom's current head of production, led the production of Dead Rising and Lost Planet, two new franchises.
Both were successful, and paved the way for recently released sequels.
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