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by Aaron Linde, Aug 01, 2008 8:00pm PDTCapcom corporate officer Christian Svensson revealed that the PC edition of the company's demon-slaying action title Devil May Cry 4 (PC, PS3, 360) saw poor sales since it debuted early last month, owing in some part to rampant piracy of the game.
"It's not doing as well as I would like in the US at retail," Svensson wrote on Capcom's official blog. "It's such a good version and it really deserves better sales. I know it's getting pirated to hell and back (it was up on torrents literally the day it shipped)."
The executive added that he had pushed for more prolific digital distribution of Devil May Cry 4's PC incarnation, but was stonewalled by Capcom Japan. Despite the frustration, Svennson reiterated his commitment to bringing more Capcom titles to digital distribution outlets.
"For the record all CEI-developed titles will be distributed extremely widely via digital channels... I've spent the last year building up that channel," Svennson stated, noting that GRIN's downloadable side-scroller Bionic Commando Rearmed (PC, PS3, 360) would see "broad digital distribution for PC."
"I have a presentation I'm making shortly that I'm hoping will make that approach something we do with all of our PC content, even those developed in Japan, but no promises. It might not happen," he added.
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I bought it for the 360 and honestly, I like playing on my 42in plasma than my 22in LCD, and another huge point, this game plays much much much better with a gamepad. But a simultaneous release would have faired much better in regards to sales numbers for the PC.
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So my point is, there are PC gamers such as myself who do appreciate games like DMC 4 being brought to the PC. Enough so, in fact, that I saw it while at Target today for other stuff and picked it up. Now it's just a matter of finding or making a GlovePIE profile and even if the graphics looked like utter crap (and they don't) this will still (as my experiments with the demo proved) beat the crap out of what I'd have gotten with a 360 or PS3.
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