DMC series has shipped 10 million

By Tom Bramwell Published 18 March, 2009

Dante do well?

Capcom has announced that the Devil May Cry series has shipped 10 million units worldwide since the release of the first game for PlayStation 2 in 2001.

A little under a year ago, the company released a list of platinum-selling games, and all four DMC games featured in the top 30, with series sales amounting to around 9.5 million according to the separate top-series list.

At the time, we were told that the first DMC sold 2.16 million, DMC2 did 1.7 million, DMC3 followed up with 1.3m and DMC4 took it to the bridge with 2.3 million. However, this week's announcement claims DMC4 sales of 2.2 million. Could be a shipped/sold disparity.

Obviously that doesn't quite amount to 10 million regardless, so it's worth nothing that the series listing last year claimed "10 titles". We're slightly confused as well, but Capcom does point out that the game is "the frontrunner of Capcom's 'Single Contents Multiple Usage' strategy", which is based on exploiting IP potential across books, comics, mobile phones and merchandise as well.

Whatever the accounting though, we can say that Dante and Trish have done the business, although Street Fighter II on the SNES is by far Capcom's biggest-selling game of all time with over 6.3 million units sold.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Dr.Mott #1 3 years ago

    I thought the fourth one was shit. 3rd one was brilliant though.

  • ZuluHero #2 3 years ago

    I come to EG for news and reviews, but i stay for the terrible puns ;)

  • Ninja_Tino #3 3 years ago

    The fourth could have been better if the whole game wasn't constantly recycled but the gameplay was there. 3 is brilliant and I rather adore the first one too. The less said about 2, the better.

  • Cloudane #4 3 years ago

    So the best Devil May Cry game sold the worse?

    What is the world coming to?

    I loved, LOVED the original and Dante's Awakening but number two is pish-posh and the fourth outing is a disappointment after DMC3 especially considering the combat took a step backwards.

  • Darren #5 3 years ago

    It looks very much like Devil May Cry 3's sales suffered from the poor critical and fan reception to the second game, which is generally considered the worst in the series to date. Never did play that game though, purely because of the bad reviews.

    I thought the third game was way too hard personally, it made the original Ninja Gaiden look easy! Even the re-released special edition was still too hard for me, which is a shame as I so wanted to play that game.

    I loved the original game on the PS2 and did complete it from memory but, boy, was it a struggle! For me, the best game was the fourth, simply because the difficulty level was just right and I actually completed it without any problems on the PS3! Really enjoyed it too although recycling the levels and bosses for Dante was a bit cheap.

  • Saxo #6 3 years ago

    DMC 4 was a great game imo, however it was my first DMC experience since I never got a PS2, but now the game is cross platform and out on the Xbox i finally got the chance, and from that perspective DMC 4 is a very entertaining game :D will def buy DMC 5 if/when that game hits the stores.

  • alimokrane #7 3 years ago

    Agh, Now I want to play DMC again for some reason..... Good news for the franchise. Now bring on the brilliance of DMC1 and 3 please.

  • muscleblade #8 3 years ago

    "and the boss fights are a lot of fun"

    Capcom know how to make good boss fights. The bosses in DMC4 where great but got recycled wich was a shame. RE5 has some of the best bosses in the history of gaming. Just like RE4.

  • CitizenGeek #9 3 years ago

    Surprised the second game outsold the third one. DMC2 was awful!

  • Eraytos #10 3 years ago

    Less talking about sales and an announcement for dmc 5 would be good. Hopefully without nero aswell.