Capcom recently reported on its fiscal first quarter results for the period ending June 30, 2009. Net Sales rose 19.2% to $205 million, Operating Income rose 23% to $38.7 million, and Ordinary Income rose 2.3% to $43.5 million.

These numbers are primarily due to the worldwide success of Resident Evil 5 (PS3/360), which has shipped five million copies to date. Monster Hunter Tri (Wii) has also been a huge success in Japan so far, shipping a record-breaking one million copies in advance of its August 1 release date. Capcom forecasts that the newest entry in the Monster Hunter series will sell two million copies this fiscal year, with a North American release date listed only as "Fiscal Year 2009".

Despite its success, Capcom also took its lumps. Its upcoming title Dark Void (PS3/360) was delayed to the fourth quarter of FY2009 in North America and Europe to "avoid competition with releases of major titles of other companies". Bionic Commando (PS3/360) also failed to meet sales expectations, selling only 550,000 copies worldwide for the quarter.

Capcom's arcade business took a loss overall, with arcade operations sales down 6.5% to $30.9 million, and arcade game sales down a whopping 69% to $3.3 million. The reason for this massive decline was cited as "an absence of new models and severe competition at the retail level" (basically, Capcom has stopped selling arcade games because nobody is buying them). The next coin-operated arcade machine to be released by the company is Mario Party Fushigi no Korokoro Catcher ("Mario Party Mysterious Heart Catcher"), coming this fall.