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ameratsu on 13 August 2009

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patjuan32 on 13 August 2009
hanafuda said:
Viper1 said:
So I guess Street Fighter IV was a mega bomb then? Didn't Capcom ship 2 million units for the first week? I can list quite a few other games that had large initial shipments that took a few weeks to clear out and no one dared call any of them a bomb or wrote stories about it.

q SF IV wasn't in the bargain bin after a week. The thing people need to remember are Capcom's expectations for the game. If this persists then they miss their target by a long way, share price will suffer, and shareholders pissed.

Didn't this same thing happen to Metal Gear Solid 4?



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johnsobas on 13 August 2009
patjuan32 said:
hanafuda said:
Viper1 said:
So I guess Street Fighter IV was a mega bomb then? Didn't Capcom ship 2 million units for the first week? I can list quite a few other games that had large initial shipments that took a few weeks to clear out and no one dared call any of them a bomb or wrote stories about it.

q SF IV wasn't in the bargain bin after a week. The thing people need to remember are Capcom's expectations for the game. If this persists then they miss their target by a long way, share price will suffer, and shareholders pissed.

Didn't this same thing happen to Metal Gear Solid 4?

I think it was Kojima that wanted 1 million first day, that's just unrealistic though.



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johnsobas on 13 August 2009
Soriku said:
Yep, same thing happened to MGS4. But that's a huge success but MH3 is a bomb. Funny how that works.

Then again everyone saying it bonbed don't care for the Wii so this is no surprise. Third parties succeeding on the Wii scars them emotionally :(

Capcom is expecting 2 million in this fiscal year for MH3, personally I think their predictions lately have been crazy, while earlier in this gen they were too conservative.  That 2 million would really only include the initial shipment to western markets, 2 million would be realistic if it was a WW LTD number.

Capcom has been way off lately, Bionic Commando is only gonna make it about 1/3 of the way to the sales target, Dead Rising Wii is probably only get get about halfway there.  Dark Void at 2 million is too high, and Lost Planet 2 at 2.7 million is also pushing it. 

If my memory serves me right in the past they expected less than 2 million from DMC, less than 3 million from Resident Evil 5, 600k from RE: Umbrella Chronicles, and about 2 million from SF4.  Those are realistic and fairly conservative figures.

 

 



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johnsobas on 13 August 2009
Soriku said:
The 2 mil shipment is WW. So far they shipped 1 mil. 2 mil seems a bit much considering they're releasing MH3 over here too late but 1.5-1.6 mil is possible.

yea it's WW but it comes out at the very end of the fiscal year, it really only is gonna include the initial shipment.



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hanafuda on 14 August 2009

The forecasts are based on RRP prices, not bargain bucket discounts.



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routsounmanman on 14 August 2009

It's only natural if one retailer drops the price, more will follow. They'll get burned pretty badly if the game develops legs and they need to re-supply, though.



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Star Scream on 14 August 2009

Well, in my opinion Capcom shipped too many copies. If they had shipped 750,000 copies first week, there would be no price collapse.

Also, bundling arrangements were wrong, I thought they would learn their lesson from MHG.



senortaco on 14 August 2009

@ Starscream & Soriku: You two twins?

...lol, I agree that they shipped too many standalone, and not enough bundles. I wonder if they are restocking the black MH3 bundles?



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