Capcom Going Facebook Next Month

Japan’s Nikkei business daily is reporting (subscription required) that Capcom is preparing games for launch on Facebook starting next month as a response to decreasing home market sales and a desire to jump into the social gaming phenomenon currently experiencing massive success on the social networking portal.

The report goes into further detail stating that the games (which will be free to play) will be supported by virtual item sales akin to other games such as Zynga’s FarmVille, with Capcom USA handling the US/EU launch under the goal of attracting one million users from the US and Europe.  No specific games were mentioned in the report.

This follows statements made by company president Harumi Tsujimoto in May regarding intentions to move into social gaming following lower game sales in Japan, totaling a 6.9 percent drop in 2009 to $6.3 billion from the year prior.

[via CrunchGear]