so, non switch games underperformed. only the switch game overperformed. open your eyes, capcom.

Dead Rising 3/Forza Horizon 3 alone throws your comment out the window.

Yup. We don't know for sure but it's likely the exclusivity period was 1 year so they're probably gonna release it in the first week of December with next to 0 marketing. A launch trailer and blog post is probably all they do.

Capcom should probably stop with exclusives, they're not in the position to take the risk, especially if they want to reach their expectations they need all the sales they can get. They should also maybe hold their games up to some higher standards as well.

I wonder if tekken 7 can outsell sfv...

ssb is a bigger fighting game than sf nowadays huh...

i think sf leaves bad after taste having multiple edition every iteration...

Except SF5 has nothing to do with the exclusivity deal. It was rushed and lacked content.  An XBO release wouldn't have added much in terms of sales.  Maybe they would have been at 1.5M right now.

DR4, on the other hand, has almost everything to do with the exclusivity deal.  While it probably isn't up to par with DR1 or 2, it still was an OK game.  So, you would think it may do the same 1.3M as Street Fighter 5, or at least be at 1M+.  But, unless you're Halo, Forza, or Gears, you're not doing too well on the XBO. And even those franchises have decreased this gen over last.  Capcom decided to ignore an install base that is 2X+ the size of the XBO's and paid the price.

They were both bad games at launch so even if they weren't exclusive they'd not have shot the lights out.  

You sell less when you keep whoring out exclusivity of your games. Who would have figured?

I was mostly taking the piss, as I do with all gaming companies, but if you're going to take it seriously then your refute is laughable tbh.

Forza games have sold pretty consistently so that's some nice cash for Microsoft, but i noticed you're examples are extremely selective. The Horizon series I think gains a lot of it's consistent sales from it being a newer entry in the series, in actuality Forza titles have been decreasing in popularity looking at their main titles(and don't give me the "but mah download sales"). 

Dead Rising 3's total sales are impressive and it sold fairly fast but Dead Rising 1 and 2 still have better sales. It will still probably end up being the 2nd best selling Dead rising though, so cheers for that. Actually, it probably outsold 1 already, so cheers for that.

In addition, even with Halo 5 sellling 5 million in 3 months(includig digital) and being "the most profitable Halo launch" it falls short of almost every Halo in a 3 month timeframe. Halo Reach sold 5 million in less than a month, so did 3 and 4. And Gears of War 4 physically sold an estimated 617k units in it's first week. So ... Splatoon 2 numbers in Japan alone. And these games have bundles.

Keep in mind I'm commenting on Microsoft's "top product" - the stuff that sells. If you honestly think Dead Rising or Forza Horizon prove a point, then I would ask how Quantum Break or Recore or Dead Rising 4 don't. To me, those are much better examples because they are literal flops instead of decent success's like the Horizon series.  And how Halo and Gears sales don't prove a point. Or how Forza sales don't. etc

So what I'm not getting from a few comments on here is that exclusivity is objectively superior in sales and logical sense vs selling to all the other markets made available...

Thank god some here are not in charge of running a business, because boy would shit go south real fast.