Capcom corporate officer Christian Svensson recently stated that he was disappointed by the sales of Devil May Cry 4 for the PC and attributed the slow sales of the action game to piracy. "It's such a good version and it really deserves better sales. I know it's getting pirated to hell and back (it was up on torrents literally the day it shipped)," said Svensson.
IGN had the opportunity to follow up with Svensson and asked him if other factors could have attributed to the disappointing sales of DMC4. Why, for instance, is Capcom Japan cautious about digital distribution? In reponse, Svensson touches upon the state of the PC gaming industry and more.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
You just give up sometimes with these companies. The minute I saw DMC 4 coming to the PC, I KNEW it wouldn't sell. It would be like trying to sell a turn based strategy game set to a historical Babylonion backdrop on the consoles.
I tried the demo and that was enough to tell me I shouldn't waste £40 on it or any of my bandwidth on it either. This game is totally impossible to play if you don't have a joypad. Hey Capcom little clue for you a lot of PC gamers don't have a joypad, if we want to play games with a joypad we would buy a console.
Suffice to say DMC 4 was doomed the minute they decided to bring it to the PC, it has NOTHING to do with piracy and it had everything to do with PC gamers not wanting to play this type of game on the PC.
I'm tired of hearing Pirated = Lost sales.
Tons of people who pirate wouldn't buy it anyways.
How many people pirate music in the intent of buying them? I don't know but buying Music Album from the store is a ripoff.
Piracy is the bane of PC gaming, and causes so many lost sales.
Sven is the best company representative Capcom could hope for, he's very close to the fans, and open to debate. Capcom-unity.com is really special, if you're a fan of Capcom check it out.
BTW, Devil May Cry 4 is a good port and game and should receive good sales. Hope it becomes digitally distributed and sells well.
obviously, nobody would play DMC4 on the PC