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by Nick Breckon, May 08, 2009 12:40pm PDTDeveloper Capcom today released an updated list of its best-selling franchises, in addition to the standard list of million-selling individual titles.
The shows an expected bump in the Resident Evil franchise due to the recent release of Resident Evil 5, with the series of 56 titles--all platforms and versions being counted--now totaling over 40 million copies sold worldwide as of March 31. The fifth sequel is now the company's third best-selling title, at 4.4 million copies sold.
Street Fighter IV sales have now reached 2.5 million, pushing past Devil May Cry 4 to land the eight slot. The lists can be browsed below:
Total franchise unit sales as of March 31, 2009*
- Resident Evil Series (56 titles - 40 million)
- Mega Man Series (124 titles - 28 million)
- Street Fighter Series (62 titles - 27 million)
- Devil May Cry Series (11 titles - 10 million)
- Monster Hunter Series (11 titles - 8.5 million)
- Onimusha Series (12 titles - 7.8 millioin)
- Dino Crisis Series (13 titles - 4.4 million)
- Ghosts'n Goblins Series (16 titles - 4.4 milion)
- Ace Attorney Series (12 titles - 3.2 million)
- Final Fight (10 titles - 3.2 million)
- Breath of Fire Series (15 titles - 3 million)
- Lost Planet Series (7 titles - 2.7 million)
- 1942 Series (3 titles - 1.2 million)
- Commando Series (2 titles - 1.2 million)
- Sengoku BASARA Series (10 titles - 1.2 million)
Capcom did not define its use of "titles" in the document, leaving it unclear as to if it counted different territorial releases of its various efforts.
Million-selling individual titles worldwide as of March 31, 2009:
- Street Fighter II (SNES / June 1992) - 6.3 million
- Resident Evil 2 (PS / January 1998) - 4.96 million
- Resident Evil 5 (PS3, Xbox 360 / March 2009) - 4.4 million
- Street Fighter II Turbo (SNES / July 1993) - 4.1 million
- Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (PS / September 1999) - 3.5 million
- Resident Evil (PS / March 1996) - 2.75 million
- Monster Hunter Freedom 2 G (PSP, March 2008) - 2.55 million
- Street Fighter IV (PS3, Xbox 360 / February 2009) - 2.5 million
- Devil May Cry 4 (PS3, Xbox 360 / January 2008) - 2.4 million
- Dino Crisis (PS / July 1999) - 2.4 million
- Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (PSP / February 2007) - 2.25 million
- Devil May Cry (PS2 / August 2001) - 2.16 million
- Resident Evil 4 (PS2 / December 2005) - 2.1 million
- Onimusha: Warlords (PS2 / January 2001) - 2.02 million
- Super Street Fighter II (SNES / June 1994) - 2 million
- Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny (PS2 / March 2002) - 1.99 million
- Devil May Cry 2 (PS2 / January 2003) - 1.7 million
- Street Fighter II' Plus (GN / September 1993) - 1.65 million
- Ghosts'n Goblins (NES / June 1986) - 1.64 million
- Resident Evil 4 (GC / January 2005) - 1.6 million
- Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (PS2 / Feburary 2004) - 1.52 million
- Mega Man 2 (NES / December 1988) - 1.51 million
- Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition (Wii / May 2007) - 1.5 million
- Dead Rising (Xbox 360 / August 2006) - 1.5 million
- Lost Planet Extreme Condition(Xbox 360 / December 2006) - 1.5 million
- Final Fight (SNES / December 1990) - 1.48 million
- Resident Evil Outbreak (PS2 / December 2003) - 1.45 million
- Resident Evil Code Veronica X (PS2 / March 2001) - 1.4 million
- Resident Evil (GC / March 2002) - 1.35 million
- Mega Man Battle Network 4 (GBA / December 2003) - 1.35 million
- Devil May Cry 3 (PS2 / February 2005) - 1.3 million
- Resident Evil 0 (GC / November 2002) - 1.25 million
- Monster Hunter Freedom (PSP / December 2005) - 1.2 million
- Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (Wii / November 2007) - 1.2 million
- Resident Evil Director's Cut Dual Shock (PS/ August 1998) - 1.2 million
- Dino Crisis 2 (PS / September 2000) - 1.19 million
- Mega Man X (SNES / December 1993) - 1.16 million
- Resident Evil Code Veronica (DC / February 2000) - 1.14 million
- Commando (NES / September 1986) - 1.14 million
- Resident Evil Director's Cut (PS / September 1997) - 1.13 million
- Super Ghouls'n Ghosts (SNES / October 1991) - 1.09 million
- Mega Man 3 (NES / September 1990) - 1.08 million
- Final Fight 2 (SNES / May 1993) - 1.03 million
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 (PS / December 1998) - 1 million
SNES: Super NES
GN: Genesis
GBA: Game Boy Advance
DC: Dreamcast
PS: PlayStation
PS2: PlayStation 2
PS3: PlayStation 3
GC: GameCube
Comments
Here's an idea Capcom, get rid of the PS characters, toss in Ryu, Megaman, Dante, etc from other games. Keep the PS gameplay (maybe a few tweaks), and just make it a casual fighting jam like Smash Bros, except with Capcom characters of course. If you use this idea, you owe me at least $1M though.
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It's pretty clear that it counts 1 for each version on each console. They aren't counting territorial releases differently unless that version is distinctly different apart from language or other considerations.
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DMC comes out on top...monster hunter second...RE third. I've never heard of monster hunter though...(so maybe this calculation is stupid).
But even if some consumers felt burned by that and lost interest in the series, it seems like DMC3 still should've performed better than DMC2 sales-wise because it was an excellent return to form.
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