Well, Capcom talked about how they expected more sales in the initial launch period, but later (a year later or so) they talked about how they misinterpreted the data, and how the industry has changed into way more steady period of sales instead of just focusing in the first months, like when the industry was physical based first.
Some old PS1 US numbers from NPD (from 2003)
Got a link to that?
Jesus, no wonder we got so many fighing games in the 90s.Alpha 2 sold 900k in Japan Alone , Alpha 1 did 500k. Remember SF Series sales was over 30m even before SF4 released. I think the Alpha series would easily be 5m+. The problem is they were spread out across so many platforms and SKUs that the only individual entry that crossed 1m is the Launch SKU of the PS1 version. I don't think SF3 or EX series topped 1m tho. Maybe along with 3SOE it might have.
These are Japanese sales figures.
Those aren't final sales but from Dec 2002 NPD. Not including Saturn, SNES or GBC releases at the time but it did have DC too and future Alpha games would release on GBA, PS2 and PSP.
Well that's why I was asking, all their earnings Q&As are public :p
Yes, I know, my point is that I'm not going to google through the last 5 years of earnings call to find it. If you find it cool, if not you can choose to believe it or not lol
I searched for it, and only thing I can find is this on April 2017, and it sounds like what you were talking about:
Yep, that and a Switch port could likely have DmC be the best selling entry in the series.
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Was Alpha a big disappointment back then? I mean, SF2 was one of the most successful games of all time. In the arcade alone it made them billions. Looking at these numbers from that perspective...
The issue from a comparison perspective is the constant change in accounting methods with no effort to reconcile historical numbers to them. With PS360 it was suddenly combining platforms, then mid gen bolting on digital sales (sometimes), then this gen combining SKUs and reprints and now even selectively adding later platforms or DLC even. There's really no rhyme or reason anymore.
It's a very tough recommend at $60 if you only care about single player stuff since there just isn't a ton there. Resistance being included is only a value add for a select few and irrelevant for most.
It's far less polished and has far less single-player content.
