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Lightning08 on 12 February 2008
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Girl Gamer Elite said:

You people really are eager to jump the gun.

My follow up comment was not in regard to the 360 outselling the PS3 version, its in regard to the luke warm sales of an expensive HD game which was suppossed to be a AAA title.

So far DMC4 has barely done better than DMC3 (which sold poorly for the instalation base on the PS2, so spare me the "this gen vs last gen" instal base argument as a defense for DMC4) or Lair for that matter, if it doesn't do fathoms of wonder in North America it'll be questionable exactly how much of a profit if any Capcom will make off of this title. That was the reason for my comment, not this situation with the 360 vs PS3.

Though I should have known any comment questioning the viability of a game not released on the Wii would immediately warrant the ire of rabid HD gaming fans. Face it, this game isn't selling poorly, but it isn't exactly selling at the levels it should be either.


This is some of the worst logic I've ever seen and it shows a complete lack of knowledge regarding the DMC franchise and how much it sells. Firstly, DMC4 is selling basically exactly the same as DMC3 which sold around 2mil copies and that is Capcom's projected target which DMC4 will break easily. Secondly, we have no idea what the budget for DMC4 was and therefore cannot even hope to know what number is required for profit nor is that our problem. Thirdly, DMC3 only sold 520k units in Europe so how much was expected in it's first 3 days? Europe are not front loaded in their sales as Japan, if you haven't already noticed.

I really wish people would drop this "profit" argument as we really don't have a clue how many sales are required for profit and the Capcom rep on the Capcom forums reported that he is very happy with the DMC4 sales thus far and that's all that matters. When DMC5 is for the PS3/360/PC again you will come to learn.