Capcom Co. expects the proportion of its profit generated by “Smurfs’ Village” and other games played on mobile phones to rise to 30 percent as users of Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Google Inc.’s Android system download the titles.
Capcom, creator of the “Resident Evil” video game series, forecast in May that cellphone games will account for 6.6 percent of its operating profit this business year. That proportion will probably increase about five-fold “in a few years,” Chairman Kenzo Tsujimoto said Thursday.
Tsujimoto, 70, said purchasing Canada’s Cosmic Infinity Inc., developer of the “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” handset game, in 2006 gave Osaka-based Capcom a head start in the sector. “That allowed us to wait in ambush,” he said.
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