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A203D on 09 May 2013
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ishiki said:
zarx said:
Slimebeast said:
How can 1.2 million be considered solid sales for a Devil May Cry game?


Because if 1.2m isn't solid for the cheap outsourced DmC, then 1.3m for the seccond biggest dev team CAPCOM has ever assembled in Dragons Dogma would have to be an epic disaster http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/million.html. DmC should leg it's self past DMC3 which most fans consider the best in the series anyway lol.


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'm also a bit confused. In the case of Vgchartz it seems that games released in the PS2 era, before PS3 have not been tracked as effectively.

This is what Capcom said in 2009:

http://www.edge-online.com/news/devil-may-cry-series-hits-10-million-sales/

In total, at the time of 2009 the series had shipped (not sold) 10 mil units.

Now we know DMC4 did ship 2.7 mil copies. Thats in line with Vgcahrtz, so I think that one is correct, I'm not sure about the PS2 games however which Capcom reported at:

DMC1: 2.5 mil

DMC2: 1.6 mil

in 2009 Capcom didn't present a specific number for DMC3. But based on that article where they report 10 mil copies shipped, it infers that DMC3 and DMC3:SE shipped 3.2 mil copies combined. Even then Vgchartz has overtracked that by a good 1 mil units.

However I'm recultant to beleive DMC3 did indeed sell 3.2 mil copies because I've never seen Capcom present that number. Its also confusing because I recall at one point Capcom saying that DMC4 was the best selling entry to the series. (Although I can't find a link for that). So I think fault lies with Capcom for not being 100% clear on that matter rather than Vgchartz.

In the case of DmC, I know it seems Vgchartz hasn't got it right. But I think Capcom is also accounting for sales over PC, Steam, Xbox Live and PSN. Those are numbers that Vgchartz dosen't provide tracking for. Capcom have also admitted that the game did not sell as well as DMC4 in Japan for obvious reasons. Which is werid because I always see Japanese players at the top of the leaderboards, lol. Capcom have also not given us any numbers for the DMC HD rerelease.

By the way I've seen Dragon's Dogma is in the bargain bin at Amazon. Worth picking up in your opinion? I'm looking for a decent RPG.