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hikaruchan on 14 May 2013

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A203D on 16 May 2013

According to Capcom these are the actual numbers the DMC games have sold:

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/million.html

DMC1: 2,160,000
DMC2: 1,700,000
DMC3: 1,300,000
DMC4: 2,700,000
DmC:    1,100,000

These numbers only include the console versions of those games, they don't cover PC or Steam sales. We're not sure on whether they've also counted PSN or Xbox Live sales with DmC. Capcom also don't report numbers for the DMC3 Special Edition, or the DMC HD collection; its safe to say those games didn't exceed 1 mil units thus they have been omitted from Capcom's 'platinum sales' numbers.

Its likely the numbers on Vgchartz will have to be adjusted to accomdate Capcom's own numbers. This is however bizzare, these numbers date from 31 March 2013; however Capcom have reported as of 2010 that the DMC series has shipped 10 mil copies in total. Its possible they are also reffering to the anime series and PC sales... Either way these are the actual numbers for the games.



A203D on 16 May 2013
ShroudedDarkness said:

-They rebooted after Devil May Cry 4 because "we saw other action games getting 4 to 5 million sales". Nevermind the idiocy of this statement as a Third Person Shooter Action title, or action games of the like, are mainstream while Hack n' Slash action titles are niche besides God of War. This is what they stated and why they wanted to go "Western".

Have you got the link where Capcom say that they are emboldened by the success of 'third person shooter' titles. I haven't seen them use the term shooter anywhere.

What I find even more perculiar is how in your mind Its not okay for Capcom to be influenced by third person shooters; bearing in mind Capcom have never said third person shooter, but that is the distinction you made when Capcom actually said 'third person action' game.

Yet its okay for Square Enix to allow Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Lost the tv show to influence Final Fantasy 13??

http://kotaku.com/5470533/final-fantasy-xiii-creators-on-the-influence-of-call-of-duty-card-games--the-toyota-prius

Thats just one link. Theres a lot of information in the past where Square Enix made claims about how FF13 would exceed expecations, things like the Leonia Lewis song, how FF13 isn't an RPG at all, but a 'new genre of gaming'. It just dosen't make sense why someone would accept things like that, but raise concerns with Capcom's methodology. Why is FF13 also not partial to the same critique?