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Media Create Sales: Week 48, 2017 (Nov 27 - Dec 03)
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Hmmmm successful for sure especially if viewed in isolation but I'm not sure I'd say biggest success. Pretty much every single one of those listed franchises has now seen substantial declines in sales (Resident Evil / Street Fighter / ) or completely cratered (Lost Planet / Dead Rising / MvC) - maybe part of this trend begun with failures to nature the correct audience in the previous generation or milking of those franchises for short term gain but resulting in long term failures?
It puts their shifting of Monster Hunter onto PS4/Xbox into an interesting perspective after long, continued success on handhelds for several generations. Have they again gone with making short term gains at the expense of long term success? Time will tell
Interesting to contemplate
They said they would supply more than any month yet which is of course gonna happen even if they never have a 200k week.
The thought process was that the bundle was limited so expectations weren't too high so not sure where you read a lot of posts expecting over 100k
The deception was last week, this week numbers were obvious after that.
oh well,that's worse than I expected,I mean 100-200k per week is fine,but still
You're looking at 30-35 million pieces of software sold from those titles. Also some of their franchises cratering has got more to do with their bad design choices than platform troubles: Lost planet 3 outsourced, DR4 outsourced, MvC poor investment and hence graphics.
No switch pacman this week then... (well is you can make the from collective nintendo)
also ps4 pro to total ps4 percentage is 52.7% so still have no idea where the rockman is
also ps4 pro to total ps4 percentage is 52.7% so still have no idea where the rockman is
So you're saying DQXI came to PS4 for western sales? What evidence is there for that?
The games existing is really evidence enough though, and not limited to these two. Falcom's another example, they prioritzed both Japan and PS4 but are left with a shrinking market for it.
Yes, as I said viewed in isolation and sales numbers alone a successful generation. But they failed to grow many of those franchises during that generation or create any significant new ones and poured a lot of money into development during that time for sometimes not great returns. Resident evil was declining from 5 to 6. Lost world was completely killed. Dead rising declining. Sales alone cannot be the barometer as they disguise some of the mistakes Capcom were already beginning to make, laying the foundations for their struggles this generation.
Not saying you are wrong or right but interesting to think about, personally I'd probably say they were more successful in the PSP / 3DS generation
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