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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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Ninja_Tino
18/03/09 @ 09:25
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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.
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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. |
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farticusmaximus
18/03/09 @ 10:54
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@Darren
I thought the same about DMC3, hard as nails, plus I'm not the fastest reacting gamer on the planet (especially after a few medicinal stogies). I found DMC4 much more my level of difficulty, but it doesnt quite have the same charm even though it looks gorgeous. I am quite enjoying some of the puzzles though, and the boss fights are a lot of fun. I always wanted to punch a giant toad demon, but never quite had the nerve to in real life... |
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alimokrane
18/03/09 @ 10:55
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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.
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muscleblade
18/03/09 @ 11:07
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"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. |
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