I'm never one to show my bias and stain news posts with personal feelings, but Capcom's simply wonderful, isn't it? Great to hear then, that the company's doing so well, as sales of Monster Hunter Freedom 2G have "skyrocketed" in Japan, helping the publisher of Resident Evil and Street Fighter to net in an operating income of JPY 2.97 billion (USD 27.4m) and a net income of JPY 4.04 billion (USD 37.3m). These are rises of 43.5% and 60.1% respectively.
Capcom's PSP monster hunting game has sold 2.4 million copies, because Japanese gamers will buy anything that involves the monsters and the gathering of things. This is due to the fact that they are genetically similar to magpies. Capcom also expects to shift 2.3 million copies of Resident Evil 5, 1.7 million copies of Street Fighter IV, 1.5 million copies of Bionic Commando and half a million copies of Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop.
Great news for Capcom, probably the most consistent third party out there in terms of quality. May they continues to be financially rewarded for being so.
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9:01 AM on 07.30.2008
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Do you dtoiders think it will sell as good on wii?
Or is the handheld aspect important?
But then, its not like this a new problem...
Now put some of that money towards Okami and Zack & Wiki sequels. Pronto.
They only EXPECT to sell 500,000. If they're only shooting for half a mil then I doubt they've put much talent or money behind the project.
Also, RE5 will seel more than 2.3 million. Most definitely.
That's one way of looking at it, but I don't think ports really take that much manpower to begin with. I mean.. in comparison to an original game.
Keep in mind that they only sold 1.7 million copies of the original (in two years!), and try to figure out how much more creating the original game cost than a port.. and you get a decent ratio for a remake.
I personally think it will sell more if its a decent port, but we shall see.
Interesting sidenote: it only sold 80,000 copies in Japan. Man, the Xbox is really bombing over there....