93% of Capcom's Q1 2026 game sales were digital

Capcom's Q1 fiscal 2026 report is out, and the headline number is hard to ignore: 93.3% of all game sales in that quarter were digital, leaving physical media with just a 6.7% slice. That figure covers both new releases and back-catalog titles.

Breaking it down further, 60.4% of those digital sales came from PC, with consoles accounting for 32.9%. PC skewing heavily digital is no surprise — optical drives disappeared from most gaming rigs years ago — but the console number is still striking. Capcom credited the Resident Evil series as the primary driver of the high digital totals, and the timing lines up: a recent Resident Evil Steam sale almost certainly padded those PC numbers. The same sales data also revealed that Resident Evil 2 has finally knocked Resident Evil 5 off its perch as the best-selling entry in the franchise, ending a 15-year run at the top. Resident Evil as a whole has climbed to become the third best-selling game franchise in Japan, trailing only Pokemon and Mario.

The numbers land at an uncomfortable moment for physical media advocates. Sony announced it will stop producing PlayStation game discs starting January 2028, a decision that drew immediate backlash — comment sections flooded with complaints, and some players organized a PlayStation boycott in protest. Capcom's data, whether intentionally or not, illustrates exactly the trend Sony is betting on. It's worth noting the report doesn't break out how much of the digital figure comes from DLC or microtransactions versus full game purchases, which fans online have been quick to point out as a gap in the picture.

For now, Capcom says it has no plans to abandon physical releases. In a shareholder Q&A, the company stated it will keep producing physical discs because a "significant number" of players still want them. Whether that commitment holds as digital percentages keep climbing is the question the community is already asking.