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OmarsComin
05/07/12 7:13:00 AM
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http://shoryuken.com/2012/05/07/capcom-reports-sluggish-sales-for-street-fighter-x-tekken/

Capcom has published the latest financial reports for the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2012. The company announced that there was a 16% decrease in Net Sales and a 13.8% decrease in operating income when compared to the previous year. According to the report, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City sold 1.7 million units in North America and Europe. Monster Hunter Tri G sold 1.6 million units in Japan alone. Although Street Fighter x Tekken managed to sell 1.4 million units, Capcom reports that the sales have “lagged”, while the other flagship titles “performed steadily”. Capcom expects record high profits once Resident Evil 6 has been released.

“In this business segment, in addition to “Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) G”, a feature title for Nintendo 3DS selling over 1.6 million copies, “Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City” (for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360), other flagship title released at the end of the fiscal year, also performed steadily, while sales of “Street Fighter X Tekken” (for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360) lagged.”

Despite Street Fighter x Tekken reportedly lagging behind other titles, it’s worth noting that Capcom originally expected the game to move 2 million units worldwide. It’s likely that SFxT will still reach those numbers in the coming months, especially once the DLC characters have been released.

As of now, Street Fighter IV is still Capcom’s highest selling fighting game for current generation consoles with 3.1 million units sold. In comparison, Super Street Fighter IV has sold 1.8 million units and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds sits at an even 2 million. Unfortunately, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has not broken the one million mark. A few months ago, it was reported that UMvC3 sold 600,000 copies across both platforms. There’s no doubt that those numbers are higher now but it still hasn’t reached platinum status yet.

Capcom has a total of 54 titles that have sold more than one million units. Check out the list below to see which fighting games sold enough copies to reach platinum status.

1. Street Fighter II – 6.3m
5. Street Fighter II Turbo – 4.1m
8. Street Fighter IV – 3.1m
17. Marvel vs. Capcom 3 – 2.0m
18. Super Street Fighter II – 2.0m
22. Super Street Fighter IV – 1.8m
26. Street Fighter II’ Plus – 1.65m
36. Street Fighter x Tekken – 1.4m
50. Super Street Fighter IV 3D – 1.1m
54. Street Fighter Alpha 3 – 1.0m


I mentioned a month or two ago that rumors were out there that Capcom was not happy about SFxT or UMvC3 sales numbers, looks like that was the case.

Think SFxT can still do well, or is it dead in the water? I haven't kept up with the tournament scene for that game but it seemed like SS SFxT had people excited.

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ninkendo
05/07/12 7:14:00 AM
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what's this?

You keep releasing the same fighting game over and over again and weren't expecting decreased sales over time? Oh Capcom.

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Liquid Wind
05/07/12 7:16:00 AM
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ninkendo posted...
what's this?

You keep releasing the same fighting game over and over again and weren't expecting decreased sales over time? Oh Capcom.

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Jeff Zero
05/07/12 7:17:00 AM
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Go fig, eh.

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OmarsComin
05/07/12 7:22:00 AM
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wait which game is SFxT supposed to be the same as again

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GuessMyUserName
05/07/12 7:23:00 AM
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yay~

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Jeff Zero
05/07/12 7:23:00 AM
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OmarsComin posted...
wait which game is SFxT supposed to be the same as again

the one with all the fighting

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PrivateBiscuit1
05/07/12 7:24:00 AM
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Yeah, I think this game is done. I hope Capcom learned a lot from what not to do from it.

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wg64Z
05/07/12 7:27:00 AM
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I really hope it does the opposite of "pickup" and there is a huge wave of refunds/returns/exchanges so Crapcom can finally understand why they're doing badly.
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PrivateBiscuit1
05/07/12 7:32:00 AM
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I'm waiting to see what balance changes they do before I return it. I don't know if I'll get back into it though.

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Djungelurban
05/07/12 8:08:00 AM
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No, all they're gonna take from this is "partnering with Namco is a bad idea" and ignore the actual problem altogether...

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pjbasis
05/07/12 8:09:00 AM
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ya go my re6

Wonder how well Revelations did?

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Dristin
05/07/12 8:09:00 AM
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UMvC was ALL their fault. I mean look at that. MvC3 is one of their top 5 selling fighter which would have defiantly been more if they took a SF4 pacing to it. Now they wont support a thriving community because they refuse to own up to a mistake instead of fixing it.

Don't know where they went wrong with SFxT though. Something there aint right that much is certain but I can't put my finger on it.

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KanzarisKelshen
05/07/12 8:26:00 AM
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From: Dristin | #013
UMvC was ALL their fault. I mean look at that. MvC3 is one of their top 5 selling fighter which would have defiantly been more if they took a SF4 pacing to it. Now they wont support a thriving community because they refuse to own up to a mistake instead of fixing it.

Don't know where they went wrong with SFxT though. Something there aint right that much is certain but I can't put my finger on it.


'Everything'.

OK, I lied, making Poison playable and marking Hugo and Rolento's return was OK. everything else though...

PS: Also, they're still doing the balance patch for UMvC3. They're not gonna drop support for it.

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Punnyz
05/07/12 8:41:00 AM
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they still made some money

there will be no lesson learned

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Tehmoosey1
05/07/12 9:58:00 AM
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The tragedy here is that Operation Raccoon City sold well. I feel like that game is much worse than SFxT.

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GuessMyUserName
05/07/12 10:01:00 AM
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From: pjbasis | Posted: 5/7/2012 11:09:08 AM | #012
Wonder how well Revelations did?


Revelations did pretty terribly

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Anagram
05/07/12 10:03:00 AM
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Imagine if they do to Street Fighter what they did to Mega Man. The next SSB game, if it has a Capcom rep, could end up with like Dante or something.

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ninkendo
05/07/12 10:18:00 AM
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Revelations is around 500K worldwide. Not bad, but not great either

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Jeff Zero
05/07/12 10:19:00 AM
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Bring Back Mega Man X

...what? It's literally the only thing Capcom makes that I care about and hasn't gotten an OK sendoff. (That's right, something from Capcom got an OK sendoff. And that was... Mega Man Zero!)

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Eoin
05/07/12 10:19:00 AM
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Wow, SFxT becomes Capcom's 8th best-selling fighting game ever, and 36th best-selling game ever, in the space of 2 months, with further releases to come on PC and Vita, and Capcom aren't happy with that? I'm unsure why they'd expect much better results than that, especially in a generation which is absolutely packed with good fighting games.
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Punnyz
05/07/12 10:19:00 AM
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did they ever release that s***ty MMX cellphone port?

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Jeff Zero
05/07/12 10:20:00 AM
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Eoin posted...
Wow, SFxT becomes Capcom's 8th best-selling fighting game ever, and 36th best-selling game ever, in the space of 2 months, with further releases to come on PC and Vita, and Capcom aren't happy with that? I'm unsure why they'd expect much better results than that, especially in a generation which is absolutely packed with good fighting games.

My guess is they're looking for bigger numbers.

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Jeff Zero
05/07/12 10:20:00 AM
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Punnyz posted...
did they ever release that s***ty MMX cellphone port?

I dunno, but that sounds amazing...

...ly bad

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LeonhartFour
05/07/12 10:20:00 AM
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I sure hope they didn't.

It looked terrible.

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Tom Waits
05/07/12 10:22:00 AM
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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mega-man-x/id469343097?mt=8

it can be yours for the low price of $4.99

ps yes it has dlc

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Eoin
05/07/12 10:23:00 AM
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From: Jeff Zero | #023
My guess is they're looking for bigger numbers.


Yes, I think it's fairly obvious they expected higher numbers, I'm just not sure why they did, given the short space of time between its release and this report, and the actually-quite-good sales numbers so far.
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Jeff Zero
05/07/12 10:23:00 AM
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The super masterpiece of the action game "MEGA MAN X” now powered up!
With variety of weapons and reinforcing parts, break Sigma’s dark ambition down!!


XFD

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Jeff Zero
05/07/12 10:24:00 AM
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Eoin posted...
From: Jeff Zero | #023
My guess is they're looking for bigger numbers.
Yes, I think it's fairly obvious they expected higher numbers, I'm just not sure why they did, given the short space of time between its release and this report, and the actually-quite-good sales numbers so far.


Well in truth I'm really not even remotely familiar with Capcom's idea of a good run. It's just not a company that's ever mattered much to me. But if they're anything like Namco (which doesn't really mean all that much to me either, but I hear a lot of things from angry Tales fans) they want it all. On a silver plate. With a side of more money.

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ZFS
05/07/12 10:25:00 AM
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Capcom is rather bad with sales expectations. 1.4 million is not bad at all for SFxT.

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Jeff Zero
05/07/12 10:26:00 AM
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ZFS posted...
Capcom is rather bad with sales expectations. 1.4 million is not bad at all for SFxT.

Yeah, so they're Namco Junior. Or Namco is Capcom Junior, perhaps. Either way they're kinda ridiculous.

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Punnyz
05/07/12 10:47:00 AM
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I actually liked SFXT

Single player was lacking (IBlols) and admittedly it was kinda hard to get into\get used to

but I had alot of fun when I played it

though I can see someone disliking it

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ninkendo
05/07/12 10:50:00 AM
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yeah not a fan of arcade mode only having character releated stories if you picked the right teams. It would just give you the same generic story if you picked characters that didn't match up.

Other than that though the game is fine. It's just the same game they we've all been playing for years.

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LeonhartFour
05/07/12 10:55:00 AM
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From: ninkendo | #034
It's just the same game they we've all been playing for years.


"The same game" being Tekken Tag Tournament?

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ZFS
05/07/12 10:58:00 AM
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What game is that? Certainly not SFIV.

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TheOceIot
05/07/12 11:02:00 AM
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From: ZFS | #030
Capcom is rather bad with sales expectations. 1.4 million is not bad at all for SFxT.


Seriously, aren't they expecting Dragon's Dogma to sell 10 million copies? That seems utterly ridiculous.

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ninkendo
05/07/12 11:05:00 AM
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I'll buy 10 copies if it helps it reach 10 million

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OctilIery
05/07/12 11:13:00 AM
#39:


ninkendo posted...
what's this?

You keep releasing the same fighting game over and over again and weren't expecting decreased sales over time? Oh Capcom.


See, there lies the problem, SFxT is vastly different from anything they've release.

It's also vastly inferior.

Fair, next.

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BerkeIium
05/07/12 11:23:00 AM
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Oh look, it's the "all fighting games are exactly the same" crowd. What a surprise.

And if SFxT were more like a game where most rounds don't end with time running out, I might have actually bought it!
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GranzonEx
05/07/12 11:27:00 AM
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Literally cut and pasted SF4 and added Tekken character and they're expecting fans to eat it up?

XFD

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SSJSephirothGokuX123
05/07/12 12:48:00 PM
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I'm shocked it managed to sell this well. Looks like it has the name power to have a big launch at least.

Through Capcom most likely wanted the game to have long legs with a 60 dollar price due to the DLC, which is why they're disappointed with the slower sales. It's already gotten price drops at Wal Mart and a few other retailers. Add the negative view this game has and that just spells horrible sales for the DLC characters.
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OmarsComin
05/07/12 6:31:00 PM
#43:


Literally cut and pasted SF4 and added Tekken character and they're expecting fans to eat it up?

XFD


They are not similar. If they had actually done that, people would probably like SFxT.

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YetAnothrShadow
05/07/12 6:38:00 PM
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From: SSJSephirothGokuX123 | #042
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Love the Regular Show

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SythaWarrior
05/07/12 6:41:00 PM
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I want MH Tri G in America. Like the fact it isn't coming over here is tragic.

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