Link: http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data/pdf/explanation/2017/2nd/explanation_2017_2nd_01.pdf
Note: It's at 900k units of a 2 million forecast.
Note: It's at 900k units of a 2 million forecast.
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Marvel Vs Capcom Infinite shipped 900k units as of 2nd Quarter Results FY3/2018
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VERY interesting : Forecasting digital download sales ratio of 33.6% (31.5% last year), due to expanding sales of full-game and add-on digital downloads
Either they overshipped or they sold a lot more digital copies.
And considering they had less revenue than Rabbids did, I doubt it contributed US contributed THAT much to the total count.
And considering they had less revenue than Rabbids did, I doubt it contributed US contributed THAT much to the total count.
Better than expected. They aimed for 2mil for entire fiscal year, with deep holiday discounts, they may hit 1.2 mil?
Err. I'm confused. The picture makes it look like it's 900K sold digital?
Or are the using the phrase "Digital Contents" differently?
Or are the using the phrase "Digital Contents" differently?
They forecast 2 million lifetime sales which seems very unlikely....so it's bad
If it sold anywhere near that, on the shoestring budget it had, I'd assume it's somewhat of a success?
Hot damn it really is $13 on CDKeys lmao. I remember it was like $25 a month before launch.
Hot damn it really is $13 on CDKeys lmao. I remember it was like $25 a month before launch.
Considering that MHW is undoubtedly their biggest seller this fiscal year, it's a bit weird that they're not giving any guidance to investors.
Now I'm interested, let's see if in the coming days (with Black Friday in the horizon) it can get lower.
Like people said all the results we have (lower than Rabbids in US, bad numbers in Europe/Japan) point out to low sales. It was probably overshipped like Street Fighter V.
Given what we know of Japanese sales, it is overshipped in Japan (20% to 40% sell though, 8k-10k FW). It likely massively over-shipped in Europe as well. This is given that game failed to chart in UK, which is the market most similar to US in EU, and Capcom said in their own report this game was intended for US and Europe.
We can estimate Japan's allocation is between 20k (lowest) to 50k. This means that 850k between EU and US. I believe Capcom, and all of us, knows US is the stronger region for this game, so I can see it being split 30-70, 40-60 or more in US' favor. This means almost 600k for USA.
Unless US does something crazy like selling through 500k units, It is likely to be overshipped in US as well. Their goal is 2 million by this FY no? If I am right, they only shipped half of that and have problems selling through the initial shipment already
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Unfortunately they didn't learn from SFV. They should've ate the cost of the first 6 DLC characters and rolled them into the base roster. I'm no financial analyst, but I'd be willing to bet that would have made a big impact on the perception of the game and helped to mitigate the seeming irreparable damage such a barebones roster had on the launch compounded with the other complaints.
I purchased the deluxe game in hopes that the game would get better over time but I'm guessing the sales will stay pretty flat as SFV did. It's unfortunate because the 3 DLC characters so far seem much more polished, and help bring excitement to the game. We'll see what happens but it's likely too little too late.
Isn't SFV at least now looking more competent as a product and the future looks decent if they can at least keep up the current trajectory? SFV: Arcade looking to add more V triggers alone looks like a good step forward.
Don't know who gave them the bright idea of focusing on the hardcore for a game like this. From the start, after the initial hype wore off, the only positive things about the game were the news of the gameplay being very good from those that managed to play it at events. There was nothing to hook the casual audience in. Those 2 million ppl would have looked at MVCI and wondered why they'd bother getting it when they have MVC which frankly looks much better presentation wise tbh.
If they're expecting lifetime sales of 2 million, then it's almost possible. Game had no budget, almost no new content, reused assets up the ass from the last game, no production values, and no advertising outside of a few FGC heads and they still haven't released the best characters the series can offer.
And STILL I can't bring myself to buy it, when I thought £10 was the price I'd crumble at...
Was a HUGE HUGE fan of this and the other vs series prior to it becoming Marvel
Capcom fucked me off so much with what they did with MvC3 which I bought day 1 and then announcing and releasing UMvC 6 months later
Since then we've had the barebones SFV release that I preordered straight away and loved the Beta, but refused to buy in the state they released it!
I eventually bought on deep discount of £25 including 1st year season pass, it's passable these days but it's no SF4
I really have voted with my wallet when it comes to Capcom and will only buy their fighting games on deep discounts after they bothered to finish developing the game
Even making RE7 PSVR exclusive for a year stopped me getting that on any platform. Waiting on Vive support before I buy, which will turn out to be the gold edition by then and probably on deep discount.
RE used to be a day1 purchase EVERYTIME. And despite seeing it stupidly low on pricing the past few months, I'm sticking to my principles
There are so many amazing games these days Capcom don't deserve my money except of large sales.
Personally I hope Monster Hunter World flops by not being portable, they are no longer the company I gre up with
They're expecting fiscal year sales of 2 million, they clearly expect it to continue selling into 2018.
What does Capcom know that we don't if they don't put it on the report.
Maybe Tsujimoto wants to do a song and dance first, then say 10 MILLION FATALITY! (Famitsu prediction) during the Q&A.
Better than I expected honestly. And should be enough for them to continue to support the game, which is all I really care about.
SFV and MvCI are both exceptionally well playing fighting games at their core. Some lackluster stuff around them has gimped them (SFV=Content at launch, MvCI=Presentation), but they're not trash games at all. And RE7 was cool.
SFV and MvCI are both exceptionally well playing fighting games at their core. Some lackluster stuff around them has gimped them (SFV=Content at launch, MvCI=Presentation), but they're not trash games at all. And RE7 was cool.
Not recovering from the mass exodus of their talented devs back in the day, unwillingness to make the necessary investments, failed engine development, misreading the market trends.
In terms of game quality though, at least RE team and MH team still seems to know how to make a good game given enough budget.
I don't know about all their other games but SFV was lacking modes which caused bad word of mouth and had a horrible launch. MVC:I was poorly promoted and from all of the whispers had an incredibly small budget and it showed in every way possible from poor character models to horrible UI. Also Marvel hamstrung them by not allowing them to use X-Men characters.
They started struggling to compete with Western developers, and instead of revamping the company to try and keep up a la Square Enix, they opted for heavy cost cutting five years in a row, which took a lot out of their products.
Yup I plan on making giveaway of it should ModBot become implemented.
Note that the key is EU region and won't activate in some regions
Wow, thanks for the replies all!
Very informative, I've been a long time Capcom fan, just painful to see things going the way they are right now!
Hopefully a few rising superstars in the industry come and change the mindset of the company (probably wishful thinking)
Their forecast is for 2M unitl the end of the current FY, so we wont really know if this start is good or bad until he wear how much they shipped in the next quarter. That was the issue for SFV, 1st shipment wasnt huge, but what made it worse is that we learned that was even overshipped
sfv and mvci are not trash game. Especially SFV.
Other than presentation, mvci is actually a very good game
My impression is that they scaled back on budget and that backfired for everything not named Monster hunter.
I don't think their last batch of games is bad per se. People just don't buy them.
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Dragon's Dogma (360/PS3) is also a good example of this. Shipped 1 million units initially from May iirc, Capcom declared it a new major franchise. Failed to get to 1.5M sales by the end of the FY, what happened to it after Dark Arisen: Dragon's Dogma Online (Japan only).
People don't buy them because of the bad word of mouth. SFV & MVC:I are at a minimum good games. When they do things well enough they have games like RE7 and hopefully MHW.
