GAMING NEWSDmC: Devil May Cry Underperforms, Capcom Adjusts ProjectionsPosted on Monday, February 4 @ 10:58:53 Eastern by Alex_Osborn
![]() Last month, Capcom shipped one million copies of DmC: Devil May Cry across both the PS3 and Xbox 360. The publisher projected two million in sales by the end of March, but Capcom has revised that number to 1.2 million. It's worth noting that sales for the PC version have not yet been taken into account, which launched on the 25th of last month. Regardless, this is upsettingly far behind Devil May Cry 4, which moved a whopping two million units within its first two weeks on store shelves. Why do you think sales are so disappointing? Could the drastic visual change be the main factor, or are people just tired of the franchise? Let us know what you think in the comments below. [Source, Via] More from the Game Revolution Network Comments
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Lien
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If it's truly the fans who were the determining demographic for the game, then they did a horrible thing avoiding the game... But it can't be them, it gotta be something else.
Axelownz
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This pretty much failed as a reboot though. It failed to attract the new fans and it alienated old fans. Pretty much the reason i won't touch it though is the loose ends from DMC4 being ignored. Probably never gonna find out what Nero's whole deal is and how he fits with Dante and Sparda now since they made this game.
Also DMC4 was the most successful of the DMC games, not sure why they rebooted to be honest.
Jobin_Wendy
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OdiousLupous
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where the THQ roam
where the gamers and the noobs can just play
where seldom we see
an on disc dlc
and high latency doesnt hold sway...
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the scene before you fight Vergil was extremely cheesy, and basic. The ol' "I can't let you do this brother" thing...wow. Great boss fight, but still cheesy.
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Longo_2_guns
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Lien
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...oh and video game is art.
Longo_2_guns
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It shouldn't be a surprise that a company that gives a chunk of its audience a big middle finger early on in production is going to have trouble selling their product. Simple as that.
Lien
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And by the way, the only middle finger to the fan i saw in the entire game was the mop scene. You can have the old dante look anytime you want (for free mind you), the gameplay is still there ebony and ivory and all, you still fight over exaggerated demons of all size and shape and Dante now has, what i call, a much more believable personality.
Did you play the same game longo or are you just blindly catering to the fanboys? Cause for me as i played the game, it seems that the masses are wrong and Ninja theory only did right. To me that the game has a bad sale because everyone is getting discourage by the whiners more then the game is not catering to the fans demands. This isn't a "Common sense thing" like you say but a horrible trend going in the gaming community. And if you said it's been around for years, then it has to stop! Cause DmC is a great game and i don't want this situation to happen ever again!
Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003
Again, you are completely misinterpreting me. I'm giving a reason why the game undersold, not taking a side.
Either way, I haven't played the game and probably won't. It doesn't really interest me that much.
oblivion437
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Lien
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Here I can list you a whole numbers of people who were outrage at the DmC change (making ten pages essays based on the screenshots alone) but immediately changed their mind after an hour of playthough. Better yet, the demo is out. Check it out for yourself and base your judgment on that, rather then the whiners or first sentiment. Ya got nothing to lose.
oblivion437
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Lien
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Seems the old Dmc fans (yes i am calling them old now) still prefer to live in the past and refuse new and improved games. And you are smarter then them, oblivion. You knew that fallout 3 was different then the old games and yet you enjoyed it. Don't give in their blind hate. DmC is a great game and you should give it a try instead of avoiding it (demo is still there, you know) then base the game on that rather then just the previews. I know cause unlike the "fans" who gave this game a bad sale, i played the darn game.
oblivion437
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I enjoyed it because it possessed merits of its own. It did not attempt to cross out, revise or in any way obviate existing material and works as an extension of that material. But as I said, I had to put on some blinders. I couldn't put Fallout 3 on the same pedestal as A Canticle for Liebowitz or the first two games. From a writerly or conceptual standpoint it's just not in their league. Its treatment of the setting was actually somewhat cavalier and inconsistent, and many of its original elements* are deeply flawed.
*Little Lamplight; the presence of the Super mutants, Enclave, and BoS on the East Coast; the completely out of character elements of the mainline of the BoS chapter's behavior; the overall condition of the environment - I'll go into more detail if you want.
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