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DmC's offical sales now

It was a very long time ago :S Like, back when it was announced in 2010.

I don't think it'd be possible to find without a whole lot of digging, which would be difficult because of the other sales figures they have since come out with, so searches are inundated with those, and bury the ones from so many years ago >.<
 
Yeah; man this is a pain. :meh:
Looking through, the closest I found was a forum dating back to September 2010 with a broken link to a Play.tm article about it. But that's it, I searched under articles about DmC in 2010 and couldn't find anything else. If this statement was true, it'd definitely be mentioned on many other sites (Just like the Projection in 2012 and the sales statements after launch.)

From what I could see, others are saying this was a statement made by a Capcom Producer, which brought something up for me. While searching, I found this:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-09-22-dmc-devil-may-cry-interview
"Motohide Eshiro: Well, taking Devil May Cry 4 as an example, including the PC versions we sold 2.7 million of that particular game, but we looked at the market and saw that there were other action games selling four million, five million, all these copies."

It dated a day before the forum thread was up.
Kinda starting to looks like the statement taken out of context by the fanbase...again...:banghead:
 
Yeah, it was probably misconstrued - I don't remember anyone saying five million was the expected sales figure. Seems impossible to me; if DMC4 sold 2.8 million, there's no way DmC would sell five all of a sudden.
Anyway, it still seems to me that DmC bombed in terms of sales, and that's important to Capcom. Hell, I'd expect it to be important to any company. You don't want to fall short of your sales quota, as there's a reason for that number's existence. Fall below it, and you don't make as much money as was your goal. Two million seems like a realistic sales figure to me - especially when you consider DmC is a westernization and was meant to appeal to a wide audience. Still, it greatly fell short of that. Kind of sad; I don't know what'll happen to Devil May Cry as a whole now.
 
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Telling people to shut up isn't allowed here so I just bring in facts.

Seeing how Dead Rising 3 (a launch title for the Xbone) sold 1.2 million and it's a launch title and there's alot of Xbones out there. According to some losers those numbers aren't enough to justify a sequel. Capcom said they're profiting from the sales.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05/08/capcom-financials-reveal-huge-monster-hunter-4-success

So with Dead Rising selling at 2.03 million and Dead Rising 2 selling at 3.41 million, it makes Dead Rising 3 the worst selling game in the series according to the logic of dimwits who don't even know what lifetime sales mean.

If that wasn't enough Dark Souls 2 sold just as much as DmC.
 
I'd also reiterate that games in the DMC/Bayonetta genre don't sell well out of the gate. Sales trickle in over time via word of mouth and videos and all that, because the virtue of those kinds of games comes from players showing off just how awesome you can be in the game.

It's also really sorta dumb to compare the sales of games that came out years ago to a game that is still gathering sales of its own. That's like comparing the lifetime wage earned of a guy who has been working for ten years against someone who has only worked in the same job for one year.

So, all in all, f#ck sales. They literally don't mean sh!t.
 
TWOxACROSS said:
I'd also reiterate that games in the DMC/Bayonetta genre don't sell well out of the gate. Sales trickle in over time via word of mouth and videos and all that, because the virtue of those kinds of games comes from players showing off just how awesome you can be in the game.

It's also really sorta dumb to compare the sales of games that came out years ago to a game that is still gathering sales of its own. That's like comparing the lifetime wage earned of a guy who has been working for ten years against someone who has only worked in the same job for one year.

So, all in all, f#ck sales. They literally don't mean sh!t.
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It's like this article, too! I agree with you and that article!
 
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