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Dead Rising Success = More 360 Capcom Games
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| TheGame 2006-08-20, 7:34 pm |
| This is not surprising, Dead Rising has not only been a huge seller,
but also a strong 360 seller as well. As long as 360 continues to sell
well, capcom and other developers have to take notice. It will take a
year or 2 for sony to catch up to 360's shipments by the end of the
year, e.g. 10 million to 1.5 million
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/xbox-3...ames-195361.php
Despite the Xbox 360's "solid, but not spectacular" (read: crap!) sales
figures in Japan, the console is selling through healthy numbers in the
North American territory. Even better news for Microsoft? Initial
shipments for Capcom's Dead Rising, a new IP for a Japanese company
certainly not new to zombies, are targeted at 450,000 copies, with
total shipments estimated at 800,000. That's good news for both
companies.
According to analysts at NikkoCitiGroup, this signals not only a strong
demand for Dead Rising, it also shows potential success for the
marketing tactic of downloadable demos via Xbox Live as well as
positive reforms at Capcom's US division.
Analysts further speculate that we'll see more PLAYSTATION 3 exclusives
(such as Devil May Cry 4 and Monster Hunter) come to the Xbox 360-at
least in the United States and Canada. That's BAD news for Sony.
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| Jordan 2006-08-20, 7:34 pm |
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TheGame wrote:
quote:
> Initial shipments for Capcom's Dead Rising, a new IP for a Japanese company
> certainly not new to zombies, are targeted at 450,000 copies, with
> total shipments estimated at 800,000. That's good news for both
> companies.
Has the 360 had a million seller yet? It would be funny if the first
one was an M rated zombie game. Would say a lot about the 360
demographic.
- Jordan
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| TheGame 2006-08-20, 7:34 pm |
| I think I read that CoD2 has sold a million. GRAW and Oblivion
(including Limited Edition) have to be pretty close to a million.
Jordan wrote:
quote:
> Has the 360 had a million seller yet? It would be funny if the first
> one was an M rated zombie game. Would say a lot about the 360
> demographic.
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> - Jordan
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| Rob Berryhill 2006-08-20, 11:34 pm |
| In article <1156102234.618393.181390@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
n0n0n0n0n0@excite.com says...
quote:
> This is not surprising, Dead Rising has not only been a huge seller,
> but also a strong 360 seller as well. As long as 360 continues to sell
> well, capcom and other developers have to take notice. It will take a
> year or 2 for sony to catch up to 360's shipments by the end of the
> year, e.g. 10 million to 1.5 million
>
> http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/xbox-3...ames-195361.php
> Despite the Xbox 360's "solid, but not spectacular" (read: crap!) sales
> figures in Japan, the console is selling through healthy numbers in the
> North American territory. Even better news for Microsoft? Initial
> shipments for Capcom's Dead Rising, a new IP for a Japanese company
> certainly not new to zombies, are targeted at 450,000 copies, with
> total shipments estimated at 800,000. That's good news for both
> companies.
I read in another article that they raised the estimates to 880,000 by
like February, from the initial estimate of like 450,000. Apparently the
game is doing really well. This should bode well for RE5 on the 360.
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| Doug Jacobs 2006-08-30, 11:32 pm |
| In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Jordan <lundj@earthlink.net> wrote:
quote:
> Has the 360 had a million seller yet? It would be funny if the first
> one was an M rated zombie game. Would say a lot about the 360
> demographic.
I don't know. Dead Rising certainly made me want to get a 360. It's
zombies. You just don't have that many games where you go up against
zombies! ;)
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| Robert P Holley 2006-08-31, 7:33 pm |
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Jordan wrote:
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> TheGame wrote:
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> Has the 360 had a million seller yet? It would be funny if the first
> one was an M rated zombie game. Would say a lot about the 360
> demographic.
I believe both Oblivion and GRAW have sold well over a million each.
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