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Capcom Ships 3.5 Million Resident Evil 7 Copies, While Dead Rising 4 Underperforms

Capcom published its financial results for the past fiscal year, including interesting shipment data for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and more.

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FallenAngel19843307d ago

Gee I wonder why Dead Rising 4 would underperform? Surely it's not cuz of a trend that seems to befall most exclusives/timed exclusives of a certain platform

lelo2play3307d ago

I'm no genius, but maybe Dead Rising 4 underperformed because it was crap?
Well, it's just my wild guess, but you probably know better them me why it underperformed.

GamesMaster19823307d ago

Correct, I love the Dead Rising series but 4 was a complete letdown. The only good thing about 4 was the xmas setting.

_-EDMIX-_3307d ago

Agreed.

maybe because its simply a bad game.

S2Killinit3307d ago

Its a little bit of both. Who is going to make a proper exclusive for a console with half the market share?

LordMaim3307d ago

It can be two things. The changes to DR4 certainly didn't do it any favors.

TheCommentator3307d ago (Edited 3307d ago )

S2Killinit, do you actually believe what you typed?

The answer to your question is any dev who signed a contract, has pride in their workmanship, and wants to continue be successful. If there are devs out there who behave as you suggest, they're not going to be around much longer when their lackluster games produce lackluster profits. Basically, they'd be tarnishing their reputations more than they'd hurting MS and wouldn't be able to pay their bills.

ThePope3307d ago

It didnt have Co-op which is why it failed. DR3 is still one of the best co-op games I've ever played

ocelot073307d ago

It was ok better than 3. But no where as good as 1 or 2.

81BX3307d ago

It wasn't crap. It was well made just the same ol dead rising.

LamerTamer3307d ago (Edited 3307d ago )

Ignoring over half of the installed console base didn't help. Making it XB1 exclusive was a mistake. If you are going to do that at least make it exclusive for the one with the largest installed base, simple economics. If not hopefully for them that check from MS was big enough to make up the difference.

jeremyj29133307d ago

What makes it worse than the others? I've never liked the series so I figured it's fans were like ppl that like the Monster Hunter games.

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Abracadabra3307d ago

@FallenAngel1984

... so why did Street Fighter V (also from Capcom) underperform?

LexHazard793307d ago (Edited 3307d ago )

Yeah and on a certain platform.

refocusedman3307d ago

Street fighter 5 was shipped as an incomplete mess thats why.

freshslicepizza3307d ago

@Abracadabra

please stop bringing logic here. dead rising 4 scored lower than street fighter 5 as well. the thing is capcom will strike a deal with anyone and how does having a vr mode exclusive to one vr (resident evil 7) help vr flourish?

_-EDMIX-_3307d ago

Completely agreed.

Capcom right now is legit on life support, RE and Monster Hunter are the only things holding that company up right now.

IamTylerDurden13307d ago

Not the same situation at all. Two different content structures as well.

DR4 shipped as a generally finished game and final product, it just wasn't very good. SFV shipped as a bare-bones game that lacked the content and support it would later receive. Though SFV is a quality at this very moment, the fact that it shipped in such an incomplete state dramatically impacted initial sales.

DR4 is just not a good game, SFV was an incomplete game. Tbh, the comparison becomes even murkier when considering Capcom was completely open about the content structure of SFV and that it would not ship fully featured. They were also open about the multiple season pass structure a la Killer Instinct. As well, with each season pass and with each tournament SFV will receive a slight boost in sales. The sales numbers for SFV have far more potential for growth than that of DR4.

Furthermore, SFV is not an inherently bad game and never was. The core gameplay, art, and design have always been strong, but it just seems as though fans and critics alike really objected to the new content/business model and in turn it received a ton of negative press.

jrshankill3307d ago

@IamTylerDurden1

SFV is not "quality" at the moment. It's awful. Still no arcade mode, awful story mode, tailored towards pro players and generally a poor entry into the franchise. There are many different, better fighters out there in this gen. MKX and Killer Instinct to name a few.

Knushwood Butt3307d ago (Edited 3307d ago )

^

If you want to play against the CPU, play Survival mode.

Otherwise, learn the game, and play against human opponents.

FallenAngel19843307d ago

It was released in an unfinished state

It's not rocket science

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2pacalypsenow3307d ago

I think it had more to do with how terrible the game was and not because it was Xbox exclusive

ocelot073307d ago

Wasn't even an xbox exclusive. It came out on the Windows store the same time as it released on the XB1. Plus it also release on steam about a month ago.

I enjoyed it personally. With it being a timed console exclusive to xbox for a year (until December 2017). I think they will release a complete edition for PS4/PC/Xbox and maybe event he Switch.

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princejb1343307d ago

Well to be fair dead rising went downhill after 2
The first one was fun cause of its originality. After a while it gets boring and repetitive

LordMaim3307d ago

Off the Record was good too.

XanderZane3307d ago

Dead Rising 4 is crap, that's why it underperformed. It's not multiplat either like Resident Evil 7.

ShadowKnight3307d ago

Maybe because Xbox one install base is small this gen

jrshankill3307d ago

but it was on Windows too, so surely it wasnt an exclusive?

Or do you guys just change the argument to better fit the agenda?

seanpitt233307d ago

Dead rising 4 looked mediocre that's probably why, they have a good premise to improve on the previous titles but somehow they make each title worse.
The physics and gameplay was badly executed could of been so much better.

Glad RE7 did well they deserve it, was a step in the right direction.

EatCrow3307d ago (Edited 3307d ago )

Of all the Dead Rising's you really missed the mark on commenting about this one.
It was not very good. Probably the worst for me so far.
Also @ Acadabra counters your argument very well. Good for some lolz

Glad RE did well. It probably reached 4 Million or more with digital included.

IGiveHugs2NakedWomen3307d ago (Edited 3307d ago )

Dead Rising 4 underperformed because it wasn't made very well. The level of detail and gore was severely lacking. So much so that fans of the series were saying Dead Rising 2 was a better game in terms of detail and gore.

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SaveFerris3307d ago

I guess there may not be a Dead Rising 5, but the sequels never did seem to match the success of the first game.

Eldyraen3307d ago

First game was a novelty released before most big games hit the systems. We saw some in March and some not much later, but DR hit during a dry August. I enjoyed it and played it a ton, but it didn't have as much competition then which helped a lot.

2+ became more and more "over the top fun" where novelty wears off more and more however.

5 would need to go big in terms of adding a better story, more activities, etc with a bit of Just Cause 3 thrown in (if you are going to go over the top, really go over the top with action and not just have crazy weapons). Maybe a bigger world with a mix of human survivors, military outposts/holding cells (survivors/zombies), and horses of zombies still. Focus less on hundreds of trash zombies so much and make things more interesting in general.

XiNatsuDragnel3307d ago

Okay underperformed because quality, COD is steady underperforming because of quality. Games that do well are usually good in quality. Simple logic.

kevnb3307d ago

COD still outperforms pretty much everything else.

XiNatsuDragnel3307d ago

But steady decline was because of quality and add to on lack of listening to fans. It goes to show that good games do sell more then p*** ones.

-Foxtrot3307d ago

They wanted 4 million RE7 copies in the first day

https://gamerant.com/reside...

Hopefully the RE2 Remake will wipe the floor with this *fingers crossed*

NapalmSanctuary3307d ago

The hillbilly horror tropes and the first person camera killed it for me. Returnable, used copy FTW. Hopefully RE2 remake is actually faithful to the original with no ots or fp crap.

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai18d ago (Edited 18d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio18d ago

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.

Jingsing17d ago

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.

Tanktopmaster9217d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit17d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing17d ago

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.

Tanktopmaster9217d ago

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

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

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."

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Koei Tecmo Announces Record Financial Results After Releasing Many Big Games

Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.

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