New Release First Day Sales: 9 Sep: Outbreak File 2 starts slow

cvxfreak

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platform title publisher Sep. 4 sales shipment sold
PS2 BioHazard Outbreak File 2 Capcom 53,396 30.7%
PS2 King of Colosseum 2 Spike 23,088 62.3%
PS2 Dororo Sega 20,272 20.4%
PS2 Viewtiful Joe: A New Hope Capcom 8,682 unknown
PS2 Shika 4 Ankh 5,815 unknown

Viewtiful Joe's original GameCube release sold 23,873 on its first day, compared with 8,682 copies for the PS2 edition.

Source: Quiter , Yosouoh
 
LOL @ capcom. THeir office manager is no doubt quivering in his/her boots. All that time for the port + dante and this?! They might have to rethink this port policy or this belief that their games aren't performing on the Cube. Next up... more Street Fighter and Megaman games.

:yawn:

LOL @ doro numbers and OUTBreak numbers. Online is KING!!!
 
Ok...so I guess most gamers in Japan don't like Viewtiful Joe. That solves that mystery. Now my question is why bother making a tv show off a game that hasn't sold that well on two systems? Was it just his personality? He is a great character, but not that popular by the looks of it.
 
Joe managed around 70-80k total on GameCube in Japan... that's not too bad actually considering it's budget, genre, platform and the marketplace.
 
jarrod said:
Joe managed around 70-80k total on GameCube in Japan... that's not too bad actually considering it's budget, genre, platform and the marketplace.

Thats true, I guess I just expect more from such an awesome game. I can't lie and say I'm not disappointed...I thought for sure the PS2 version would get some nice sales. :(
 
Damn, so Spike only shipped around 40,000 copies of KOC II? That explains why almost every online retailer has it on backorder and expect another shipment in a week.

Now I know why my order says "Ships in 7-14 days".
 
I'm actually rather impressed with that Dororo number, poor sales percentage aside. It will probably do about 42k or so its first week and just might end up around 100k... a level I was certainly not expecting for it.
 
ferricide said:
seems like shops ordered in unwarranted amounts of dororo, however.
wonder why?

I'm guessing because it's based on a famous manga that a lot of people are familiar with.

I was up until 5am last night playing it and while the game has serious hit detection, shoddy camera issues it's actually the most fun I've had with a Sega game in a while. The story and presentation are way above Sega's usual budget level...I guess they got everyone to work cheaply :P
 
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