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July 18, 2026

Capcom Summer Sale Slashes Prices on Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, and Ace Attorney

🇯🇵 Originally reported by GAME Watch

Translated from Japanese with commentary

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BODY: If your backlog has been begging for a few more Capcom entries, now is the moment to give in. The CAPCOM SUMMER SALE is officially underway across major digital storefronts, bundling some of the publisher's biggest franchises into one seasonal discount window.

The sale spans the PlayStation Store, Xbox Store, and Epic Games Store, among others, meaning players on nearly every platform can grab something at a reduced price. One important caveat: end dates differ from title to title, so a deal you spot today may not stick around as long as its shelf-mate.

Headlining the lineup are the usual heavy hitters. The Resident Evil series anchors the horror side, while Monster Hunter covers the co-op hunting crowd. Rounding things out is the Ace Attorney Investigations line (known in Japan as Gyakuten Kenji), giving courtroom-drama fans a reason to click "add to cart." With entries across multiple storefronts, the practical move is to compare pricing platform by platform before committing.

Seasonal sales like this are Capcom's reliable way of funneling newcomers toward its long-running series ahead of the next round of releases, and the breadth here suggests the publisher is clearing runway for what's coming later in the year.

The insider take

From Tokyo, Capcom's summer sales have become a dependable ritual — timed to catch students on break and salarymen chipping away at their backlogs during the humid off-season. What's telling is the inclusion of Ace Attorney Investigations: Capcom has been steadily rehabilitating the Gyakuten Saiban brand's Western presence, and discounting the Investigations collection is a quiet play to widen that audience before any future franchise moves. Domestically, these deals move a lot of units precisely because Japanese players tend to wait for exactly these windows rather than pay full price at launch.

Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).

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