SmokedMeat
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Technically it's already on the other platforms. And for a lot less money.
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Street Fighter V has shipped 1,7 million, Dead Rising 4 still under 1 million
- Thread starter Jarod McChicken
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Technically it's already on the other platforms. And for a lot less money.
SinCityAssassin
Member
They've spent millions in marketing propping it up as the pinnacle of fighting e-Sports along with using dlc profits to help fund pots. I don't think this helped them make much money at all no matter how cheap you think the budget was.
They're only using 1 dlc pack to fund pots. They also still have a partnership with Sony to help with esports.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I find that hard to believe. Do you have any facts to back your claim up?
Jeff Freecss
Member
Wooh, blatantly port begging in first post? New height for Neogaf.
I think just the MCU success is enough to blow MvCi past SFV. Plus it doesn't look nearly as intimidating as previous MvCs.
giancarlo123x
Banned
The developers of dead rising need to take some time off and look at what made the original game great and work from there. Stop ruining such a great series dammit.
Also I think SFV sales will do better once they announce an updated super version which is just the game with both seasons currently to catch new players up, buying the game on disc and stuff separately is costly.
Also I think SFV sales will do better once they announce an updated super version which is just the game with both seasons currently to catch new players up, buying the game on disc and stuff separately is costly.
Bridges
Member
Dead Rising was one of my favorite franchises last generation, but I hope to God they stop making them.
3 was fine and ended up being my favorite launch title when the gen started, but 4 stripped out everything I loved from the series. I've scoffed at over-dramatic comments like this before, but Dead Rising 4 marks the first time I have ever truly felt insulted as a player from a videogame.
I'm unsure there's any way for them to succeed with the franchise right now. Maybe sit on it for a decade and reboot it when the time is right, but clearly the direction they tried taking didn't resonate.
3 was fine and ended up being my favorite launch title when the gen started, but 4 stripped out everything I loved from the series. I've scoffed at over-dramatic comments like this before, but Dead Rising 4 marks the first time I have ever truly felt insulted as a player from a videogame.
I'm unsure there's any way for them to succeed with the franchise right now. Maybe sit on it for a decade and reboot it when the time is right, but clearly the direction they tried taking didn't resonate.
CPT DLC is seperate from their normal DLC. Either way they must be making some profit if they are giving away 80% of the CPT pack towards its production.
I certainly hope there isn't some huge untapped market of people who want Faux Rising 4 for PS4 cos that would be a pretty sad indictment of the playerbase's quality control
Capcom took a shot at taking the franchise 'main stream' but all that really means is they gutted everything that made it special.
chromatic9
Member
With Ultra SFIV selling 1 million and SF X Tekken selling 1.8 on PS3/360, SFV not on Xbox and being a laughably barebones game suited for the tournament scene. 1.4 is about where I'd expect even though it's technically a mainline entry.
Actually 100k. Did 200k another quarter.
OnionPowder
Member
Im glad to see dead rising fail.
Game didn't deserve to do well
Game didn't deserve to do well
How many millions though I wonder. 2 million? 99 million?
The e-sports events seem to be co-sponsored or partly DLC-funded, so at least it seems far cheaper than the traditional marketing COD/AC would have.
Blackage
Member
Capcom is a mess this generation, they had some good will leaving last gen, but the writing was on the wall they had some issues, specifically with Japanese management, and this generation they've just been a raging dumpster fire from the get-go.
I hope the new PS4 Monster Hunter does well for them.
I expect MvC:I to disappoint sales-wise due to the immense hate it's getting online which will spread via word of mouth(Which is a shame because it's fun from what I've played).
I also wonder if them not having their own in-house engine and switching to Unreal has hurt their development more then it's helped them.
I hope the new PS4 Monster Hunter does well for them.
I expect MvC:I to disappoint sales-wise due to the immense hate it's getting online which will spread via word of mouth(Which is a shame because it's fun from what I've played).
I also wonder if them not having their own in-house engine and switching to Unreal has hurt their development more then it's helped them.
Chronospherics
Member
What are you trying to do? Draw your own causal fallacy?
Read the reviews, there are an abundance of reasons that both fans and critics disliked DR4, more than previous instalments. If you actually look at metacritics user reviews the most common criticism is the lack of co-op, whereas the removal of the games timer frequently appears in positive reviews.
Quick word frequency review of the front page of metacritics user reviews:
- Co-op is mentioned a total of 11 times across 7 reviews. All 7 reviews site it as a reason for disliking the game.
- The timer is mentioned 11 times, across 8 reviews. 4 reviewers talk about the timer positively, saying they prefer not being time pressured, 3 view it negatively, and 1 review is mixed.
Sad Affleck
Member
I never liked traditional Resident Evil titles (1-3). I enjoyed RE4 and 5 and I also enjoyed RE6. I have no interest for RE7 and I hope Capcom brings the series back to the action-horror style of RE 4-6.
Well, yeah. Their resources have whittled away to almost nothing so any big project risks killing the company, that is how badly they have managed their IPs in the last 10 years.
More than any other developer the quality and quantity of their output has slowed to an absolute crawl and the games they do put out are always botched, half-assed efforts.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Same could be said of Street Fighter.
Sizeable audience on Xbox would buy Street Fighter V and boost it's sales a fair bit.
Colossal Moo
Member
Nope - Rise of the Tomb Raider (the last Tomb Raider game) was good. It had a good story and it was a fun game. It also got 8.6 on meta-critic (http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/rise-of-the-tomb-raider).
ElfArmy177
Member
Sorry but dead rising and saints row are like the "scary movie" franchise. Potty humor and stupidity is only fun for a short time and gets boring fast unless it's clever and witty. Neither of these games are clever or witty. Agents of mayhem will be the same and tank miserably. Stick to real stories and atmosphere Capcom. That's where you shine
Edit: I know Capcom doesn't make saints row. I was using a second example of stupid humor
As for Sfv, I never followed it long enough to really know what they did wrong
Edit: I know Capcom doesn't make saints row. I was using a second example of stupid humor
As for Sfv, I never followed it long enough to really know what they did wrong
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Yes it would.
El Sabroso
Member
Microsoft only released the users numbers last year, with over 6 million users, but haven't got any reports on numbers for each season or even just downloading the free client
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Not sure, but KI Im fairly confident has sold more than 1.7 million copies.
The Xbox relation can't be a coincidence.
Capcom x Sony isn't really any better, considering how they fucked up Street Fighter.
Chobel
Member
giancarlo123x
Banned
Paid full versions? Only buying one character so counting that as a copy? Downloading the free client?
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
The humor isn't what killed Dead Rising 4. In fact it had the right tone with it's setting.
Not DR4... it was terrible. I got it for Christmas last year, and apparently I was bad in 2016
MS needs to make its own exclusives, rather than poach third-party ones. I just can't believe Scalebound got the axe and Crackdown 3 is still coming... That's the real tragedy here.
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
and P.N.04
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Not DR4... it was terrible. I got it for Christmas last year, and apparently I was bad in 2016
MS needs to make its own exclusives, rather than poach third-party ones. I just can't believe Scalebound got the axe and Crackdown 3 is still coming... That's the real tragedy here.
Crackdown 3 releasing this year is a tragedy?
Chobel
Member
Alright, how much do you expect SFV would have done on Xbox?
I mean Japanese fighting games already sell most of their copies on PS4. Not to mention SFV bombed big time in the countries where Xbox is doing well: US/UK.
LiquidSolid
Member
Not really port begging when Capcom and Microsoft already confirmed it was only a timed exclusive. Though given how poorly it sold and was received, maybe they'll abandon the PS4 port anyway.
If he were talking about Dead Rising 3 then yeah, it'd be pretty dumb porting begging, since Microsoft helped fund its development. Same thing goes with Street Fighter V and Sony.
They heavily overshipped it at launch, so it took a while for them to sell through those copies and ship out more.
John Wick
Member
So both games were entirely funded by either Sony or MS? Source?
Nemesis121
Member
SFV at launch was barebone game, and deserved all the negativity it got at launch, i gave it a bad review on steam, the game has come a long way since, still need to fix the netcode, my Negative review on steam won't be adjusted on the Netcode is fixed..
sixteen-bit
Member
300K SFV copies sold since this time last year?
Luckydog
Member
Or perhaps it could be the Capcom relation? If you look at SFV, that has been a cluster F that has nothing to do with the Xbox..... I'm not stating if SFV is good or bad, but it is undeniable that it gets a lot of bad press and seems to have sold poorly on 2 massive install bases.