At a glance
- Product
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- 1979
- Public
- Osaka, Japan
- 10 offices · 8 countries
About
Capcom was founded on May 30, 1979, in Osaka as I.R.M. Corporation to make electronic game machines, and took the Capcom name in 1989. It listed on the Osaka Stock Exchange in 1993 and on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2000. The head office is in Chuo-ku, Osaka, with a branch in Tokyo. Kenzo Tsujimoto is chairman and CEO.
It develops and publishes console, PC and mobile games and runs arcade and amusement equipment businesses. Its main franchises are Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Devil May Cry, Ace Attorney, Mega Man and Dragon's Dogma. Resident Evil passed 100 million units sold in 2020 and Monster Hunter did the same in 2024.
According to its company data, Capcom had 3,976 consolidated employees on March 31, 2026, 3,593 of them at the parent company. Overseas subsidiaries sit in San Francisco, Culver City, London, Hamburg, Paris, Taipei, Hong Kong and Singapore.