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Capcom Global Production founder: "DMC 5 sales are not low"
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It had poor performance over here? It topped the charts; I can't imagine it's done that poorly in the UK.
Good to hear. PC sales seemed to be very high considering the concurrent player numbers, and Benji said first impressions of DMCV sales in the US are promising, so I feel it's going to do well. I wonder if it can reach 5M sales, that'd be great.
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Best-selling DMC game (DMC 3) did 3.45M lifetime, so it's a big goal, but not an impossible one. Anyway, it's not like 5M is the lower bound for success or anything, of course.
It's been a week now and we haven't heard anything. Or maybe they're waiting for a certain milestone to reach.
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Very few, DMC 5 entered in the top 10 of Steam charts 10 days ago before the launch and it's still in the top 5 one week after launch.
AMD copies are not counted in the Steam Global Seller chart.
How do you count 3,45M for DMC 3 ? The Capcom Platinum Page has 2,3M with the special edition combined, and the best selling DMC would be DMC4 with 3 million.
This is a weird thing to say.
The game is obviously not overperforming, while not being a bomb either.
It does OK.
The game is obviously not overperforming, while not being a bomb either.
It does OK.
Only people I've seen thinking the sales are low are people who don't seem to know what they are talking about lol
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Yes and i don't think Capcom expected otherwise, they know the market for 10 hours linear sp games is very limited.
I think 2 million in March would be a nice start for the type of game DMC5 is, but if Capcom does not publish a PR we will have to wait the IR report next month.
The game had 50k concurrent players on Steam before the game released in the America's and before AMD even sent out their codes.
The person's literal tweet expressed concern that sales were low and they got a cheeky/direct response. Probably as much as they're allowed to say.
I bought the game two days before release that's why I have the timing messed up =p
Yea maybe
And some are out here expecting 3 million shipped first week?
It took GG a few weeks to announce HZD's sales, so could y'all perhaps wait several more days before declaring the game a flop?
Resident Evil 2 Remake sold over 3x more units at UK retail in its first week. Whether the market is dying or not, the relative performance is a bit eyebrow raising.
The game isn't ranking too hot on Amazon for a game slightly less than a week old, either. I'm sure the game is shifting a fair few units, but I think some people genuinely thought it was gonna be some kind of smash hit, and they kept on assuming even when that didn't quite happen.
First week UK sales have been the source of like 40 billion bad sales hot takes by now. If only everyone could learn to not read too much into them, ever.
I assume the UK numbers didn't include digital? I swear we get this every game. Physical numbers are low but then digital numbers are high.
But also I have always had a hard time believing the U.K. physical sales is even representative of a game's physical sales in other regions. It never made much sense to me how much weight some put in those numbers.
I don't get it, why are people looking at retail sales numbers to begin with? I don't think I've bought a physical game on PC since... Total War: Shogun 2?
Digital can go up to 50 percent (or even more) of sales with selected titles in this region. Digital is strong HERE and physical charts should not be accounted as the only number present!
So they're not high either? Gotcha.
No wonder why this industry is hell bent on hiding its sales numbers...
No wonder why this industry is hell bent on hiding its sales numbers...
While I understand where the "UK doesn't matter" posts come from but you have to accept that UK is still the biggest market in Europe and it's not trivial at all. DMC's 20k (at retail) in the UK is probably it's best opening in any European country (well UK is not a country but you know what I mean). The only exeptions could be Germany and France.
On the other hand anybody saying the game flopped is really ignorant. The game will do good, Capcom is going to share the numbers soon.
On the other hand anybody saying the game flopped is really ignorant. The game will do good, Capcom is going to share the numbers soon.
