Capcom Will Pay People More And It's No April Fool's Joke

Capcom, on a wave of success, is making management changes. One of them is to increase employee salaries by 30%.

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Jokes are jokes, but this doesn't look like one from April Fools' Day
Good games, good salary

Japanese studio Capcom is doing very well. This is evidenced not only by excellent sales results of Resident Evil Village and Monster Hunter: Rise but also changes in employee salaries. As reported by Video Games Chroniclebeginning with April 1, the salaries of employees in the Japanese branches of Capcom will be 30% higher.

Jokes are jokes, but this doesn't look like one from April Fools' Day

This year will probably be already the fifth year in a row when the Japanese developer makes a record profit, and the ninth time when it can boast increase in revenue. With this in mind, salary increases are very understandable.

Higher payouts are not the only novelty that Capcom is introducing. Other things that will change are the company's approach to communication between management and employees, as well as the system for calculating payout bonuses. As we read in the official announcement:

“In order to realize steady growth over the mid- to long-term, and pursue the enhancement of corporate value, the Company formulates the ‘Capcom Corporate Governance Guidelines’ as basic guidelines on corporate governance, and works to enhance its corporate governance system in a sustained manner.”

Capcom will also be fine-tuning its employee performance appraisal system and training. So corpo might not be so bad after all (at least in Japan).

Good games, good pay

While on the subject of finances, we must mention the sales results generated by the aforementioned games. More information on this subject, as well as top selling Capcom games, can be found here.

Resident Evil Village was distributed in 5.7 million copies, of which 900 thousand were sold in the last quarter of 2021.
In contrast Monster Hunter: Rise, whose sales results include only the release on Nintendo Switch, sold 7 million copies.

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Apart from the hits, which are undoubtedly Resident Evil Village and Monster Hunter: Rise it is also worth mentioning that Capcom has quite recently shared new information on next-gen ports of the Resident Evil games, which you can read more about here.