News: Capcom Announce Sales
Posted 12 May 2003 at 17:49 by Ashley Jones
Capcom revealed today that their target of 8,750,000 sales in the year 2002 has unfortunately not been achieved, the company has only sold 6,830,000. The company blame low sales of such titles as Clock Tower 3 and of Devil May Cry 2, the latter in the west, for the bad sales.
Microsoft's Xbox also had a disappointing year, a target of 600,000 sales was set but the machine only managed to sell 280,000.
4,800,000 titles were sold on the Game Boy Advance, however, despite this Capcom have canned 10 titles that were originally planned for this format.
However the GameCube did Nintendo proud, the console was predicted sales of 3,200,000 but sold more, in total 3,230,000 titles were sold.
Capcom also announced their expected sales for the fiscal year of 2003. Check the list out below..
- PS2: 6,830,000 target (34 releases)
- GameCube: 3,230,000 target (18 releases)
- Xbox: 280,000 target (10 releases)
- Gameboy Advance: 2,040,000 target (17 releases)