I haven't had any trouble finding it in my area (Western US). So far I have seen it at Walmart and Target. Have not made it out to check at Best Buy or the game stores as of yet.
I spent two weeks traveling around the North East (Ontario Quebec, New Brunswick, Maine, Vermont, New York) looking for a copy of this game while on Vacation. Almost no one is carrying it, and didn't find a store with a copy until upstate New York. (Most places hadn't even received their orders yet!) It makes me wonder if Capcom USA's poor distribution will sell this game short in the end, or if it's simply extremely popular as a budget title in places where orders were filled.
Has anyone else had trouble locating this title on the shelves?
I'm somewhat surprised at the fall today given the fact that this week's UK charts were just released and RE 4 repeated it's #1 performance on the Wii-specific charts and dipped only 1 place on the Overall All Prices chart (from #4 to #5). [2]
Famitsu has this game selling a total of 73,535 units to date. It is currently at number 31 in the software sales charts selling most probably less than 10,000 units (Rank 10 sold 18k units). Next week's Japanese charts will be indicative of the game's staying power, although I predict that it will sell less than 100k total in Japan.
That's Capcom's press release financial report thing for 2006. You can see that the fiscal year ended March 31 this year, so must finish March 31 next year also.
The way the article was written makes me think it's lifetime sales, but it doesn't actually say anywhere. Could DMC4 sell 1.8M before the end of the fiscal year?
Assuming it is for sales in this fiscal year. Fiscal year ends March 30, if I recall corectly. This game probably won't be selling in nine month's time, especially if Capcom thinks it will only sell 420K, so their 420K figure essentially represents their lifetime sales projection. Umbrella Chronicles is down for a 2007 release, which means it would have been out for at least three months. I'm guessing they're planning to release this a month or so before December Capcom doesn't want to have to contend with Super Mario Galaxy or Brawl (most people seem to think one of these two will be released around christmas time). This should be enough time to sell most of its lifetime sales, maybe about 90%. It doesn't matter if the game is actually released in 2008 as these are Capcom's predictions and they're planing a 2007 release.
Sales projections are not necessarily sales predictions. They could also be lowballing the numbers so that they can claim better-than-expected results during their next fiscal report.
According to Vgcharts, this game moved 87,000 units in its first week in N.America and about 76,000 in Japan so far. If the game sells about as well in Europe (and traditionally, this franchise does), it should pass Capcom's forecast.
I'm not saying we should ignore company projections, but I don't think it should factor into lifetime sales as much as emerging sales data (I personally no have stake or claim as to where this stock should be).
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I haven't had any trouble finding it in my area (Western US). So far I have seen it at Walmart and Target. Have not made it out to check at Best Buy or the game stores as of yet.