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Capcom is celebrating record summer profits for the three months ended 30th June, with profits at $38.4m - a 23 per cent increase on the same period last year.
Resident Evil 5 broke records to ship 5m units around the world, and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite rampaged to ship 3.5m units in Japan alone. Wii-exclusive Monster Hunter Tri has been pre-ordered 1m times already, and prepares for a gigantic Japanese launch tomorrow.
Capcom also singled out Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and Sengoku Basara Battle Heroes as strong sellers.
But not all games met expectations. Capcom said Bionic Commando "underperformed" with 550,000 units sold, and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite "performed weakly" overseas despite a hefty marketing push.
Capcom expects Lost Planet 2 to pick-up the baton from here and sell around 2.7m units. The company is also predicting a healthy return on superb XBLA and PSN fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom 2 over the coming months.
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Ashen-Shugar
31/07/09 @ 09:21
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"Appart from strafing, you can make the controls the same as in Gears of War"
You can't move and shoot, which is I believe what penhalion was referring to. After the superb Dead Space, Resident Evil controls just don't make the grade. |
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"and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite "performed weakly" overseas despite a hefty marketing push."
Er... could it be because it is essentially the exact same game Monster Hunter Freedom 2 was with some (welcome, too) added functionality? I bet most of the MHF2 owning crowd never completed that game so buying another game that is set in the same geography with same monsters just so you can take the cats to combat doesn't sound too appealing to them. I know I haven't bought Unite yet and am waiting for my stupidity to finally kick in and force me to buy it despite my better judgement. |
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Chazmeister
31/07/09 @ 12:05
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Now that we gamers in the west have a large selection of games from western developers to choose from, and indeed in the case of the 360, a western centric developed console. It is just starting to show the large disparity there is between Japanese and western tastes. Now that there is more choice for console gamers, the once mighty Japanese publishers are rapidly loosing their strangle hold on the world wide games market.
Just as well as far as I'm concerned too, as the recent crop of big Japanese titles is showing just how stale and stuck in the mud their developers have become. |
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No doubt the poor console sales of Bionic Commando are the reason for the disappointing no-frills PC port which promised DirectX 10 enhancements that utterly failed to appear in the retail game despite the developers promising it and numerous websites, including NVIDIA, promoting it as a DX10 game! Even EG claimed it would support DX10. In fact the back of the damn box I have lists DirectX 10 enhancements as a feature but the game only supports DirectX 9! :O
I suspect DX10 was dropped last minute in order to get the PC version out quickly and allow Capcom to cut their losses. The game isn't that great anyway but, personally, I'm getting tired of all these delayed, lazy and buggy console ports that have been appearing on the PC of late. |
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