Capcom: DmC "posted solid sales", Capcom still using outsourcing

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ishiki said:

That is interesting. I think part of the reason it's percieved (including mine) is because of VGC's aweful tracking.

None of these include the PC versions

VGC's Numbers

DmC: 0.71
DMC4: 2.75
DMC3: 2.21
DMC3: SE 2.09
DMC2: 1.97
DMC: 2.99

Capcoms As of March 31, 2013
DmC: 1.1
DMC4: 2.7
DMC3: 1.3
DMC2: 1.7
DMC: 2.16

Obviously, you can argue shipped vs sold (at which VGC overtracked a lot of the older games). But VGC is really wrong with DMC3, and DMC, and has been really aweful this year.

What is solid or not solid, depends on semantics, and at which point in time you evaluate from. If they evaluated from their 2 million expectations, it's hard to see 1.2 million as solid from a certain viewpoint. But it is what is regardless of which phrase someone uses to describe it. It doesn't mean they didn't profit or that it's not performing to their revised but possibly acceptable expectations.

I wonder how VGChartz is so far out I mean I find it hard to belive that Capcom would be undertracking their own shipments so I'm not sure how VGCharz managed almost 1 million units over on DMC 3, plus have the seperate SE version at over 2 million when it hasn't even reached Capcom's own million sellers list. DmC didn't do as much as they hoped (5 million acording to one random producer but that was always pie in the sky stuff) or the 2 million they projected. But it's not too much of a streatch that they see 1.1m on consoles to be a solid base especially if they can turn out a cheap sequel in a couple years even if it hasn't quite broken even yet especially if compared to the likes of Dragons Dogma or even the Lost Planet games.