Resi Evil Mercs 3D 'basically achieved projected sales'
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Super Street Fighter IV Arcade didn't excel either.
Capcom has announced that net sales decreased to 11,953 million yen for fiscal year 2011 - ended June 30, 2011. This is down 37.2 per cent from fiscal 2010.
Profits decreased to 775 million yen, down 22.9 per cent from the previous year.
With no major new titles launched during the April-June quarter it was Monster Hunter Freedom 3 which contributed most in Capcom's consumer games business. As for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D and Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Capcom says they "basically achieved projected sales".
That's not the most glowing of reports.
Capcom's first Resident Evil outing on 3DS failed to capture gamer attention, charting at No.21 in the UK on its launch week, and quickly slipping out of the chart.
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munkee
Hi guys,
As you all know we are releasing a free mini game to retail this season. We are sending this software to retail at the full price £34.99. Its pretty light on content and we have used a fairly solid mechanism [un-deleteable save file] to prevent the preowned sales of this title. Please remember that the official reason for the un-deleteable save file is that our software is a high-score game. For the love of gods.. DO NOT LET THEM KNOW WE ARE FIGHTING THE PREOWNED SALES MARKET! As we haven't really put a great deal of effort into this product and it doesn't really have any lasting value, we're predicting that the industry reviews will be scathing. For this reason we only spent £73.16 on development, £200 on publishing and a further £106 on marketing. So, we need to sell 10 copies of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D to not only achieve predicted sales, but also to break even.
Regards,
Capcom Dick