Capcom's stylish 3D action franchise has shipped over ten million units worldwide, Capcom announced today.
Count yourself as one in ten million if you've ever bought a Devil May Cry game in the eight years since the series made its 2001 debut on the PlayStation 2. The series that laid the foundation for 3D action games where you can knock guys up in the air and then shoot them hit a milestone recently, with Capcom announcing that the series has shipped ten million copies. That's shipped, not sold, though I'd wager sales are still presumably hefty given how long DMC's been around.
Devil May Cry 4, the most recent DMC game, accounts for the biggest fraction of that 10 million having sold 2.2 million copies, Capcom said. A look at Capcom's platinum sales stat chart, though, shows that the game has sold somewhere around 2.35 million. Meanwhile, the first Devil May Cry has sold 2.16 million, the second 1.7 million and the third 1.3 million. Totaled that comes to 2.5 million less than 10 give or take, which could be unrecorded PC sales or the shipped copies that haven't been sold yet.
It makes sense that DMC4 would be the highest seller, since it's the series' sole multi-platform entry, having appeared on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Which would suggest that DMC1 remains the title that had the biggest single surge of popularity at a specific time. It was the first of its kind, after all, and not just in the franchise but in the breed of fast-paced, combat-centric and style-conscious 3D action game that includes franchises like Ninja Gaiden and God of War.
Indeed, DMC1's probably still the DMC people think of when they think of the series. Which is kinda sad, since I have a soft spot for the third game. I mean, who can forget that one cutscene where Dante decides to run down the side of the building just 'cause and then proceeds to kill monsters while doing it before getting swallowed whole by a giant floating lizard as big as a blue whale. Not really hard to see why this series is so popular when you think of that.
Now now, Devil May Cry was a fun experience, it was Diablo (A-RPG), devoid of the pot-head factor (Addiction to Potions or vial containing red substance that restore health over time, or instantly), with fun bosses that didn't involve just (click click click to avoid, click click to get near it, click click click click click click click to damage it ... rinse and repeat).
pyromcr: devil may cry was not that good, how did it sell that many copies???
DMC3 is the definition of difficult, deep yet fair battle.
In the end, you could basically play the battles blind thanks to the awesomely designed sound cues for just about everything. DMC4 sort of ditched all that in favor of overpowered devil hands and some of the most repetitive level design I've seen in my life.
The DMC series is silly. It became DMC after it was too silly to be Resident Evil, didn't it? I think silly games should be rewarded according to the depth and breadth of their silly.
Four games to sell 10 million. Not terrible I would say, but not much to brag about. I bought the first one, thought it was okay. Downloaded the demo for the 4th one and it was exactly the same. Not really a memorable series. Although I did buy the first one for 10 bucks, and pawned it 6 years later for 4, so that's not a bad investment.
pyromcr: devil may cry was not that good, how did it sell that many copies???
DMC3 is the definition of difficult, deep yet fair battle.
In the end, you could basically play the battles blind thanks to the awesomely designed sound cues for just about everything. DMC4 sort of ditched all that in favor of overpowered devil hands and some of the most repetitive level design I've seen in my life.
You DO play the battles blind because the damn camera won't even point in the general direction of the enemy. that's the reason I gave up on DMC3SE when I reached the flying worm boss (third boss I think), impossible to see enough to actually put up a fight, all I could do was flail the sword randomly in the hope of hitting the energy balls.
pyromcr: devil may cry was not that good, how did it sell that many copies???
Because your opinion does not reflect that of the majority...
And maybe because the majority of people don't have any taste? Anyway...I always liked Resident Evil 4...I mean Devil May Cry. But I haven't played DMC4 because honestly I lost interest after I beat 3 with my eyes half open. The most underrated one is actually 2, I don't know why everyone hated it so much.
pyromcr: devil may cry was not that good, how did it sell that many copies???
Because your opinion does not reflect that of the majority...
And maybe because the majority of people don't have any taste?
Wow..."taste" is subjective you pretentious idiot. Just because you don't like a game, doesn't mean others don't - in fact, it cold be argued the fact you don't like those games in the spotlight shows you have no taste, because taste is subjective and the majority obviously like Devil May Cry.
pyromcr: devil may cry was not that good, how did it sell that many copies???
Because your opinion does not reflect that of the majority...
And maybe because the majority of people don't have any taste?
Wow..."taste" is subjective you pretentious idiot. Just because you don't like a game, doesn't mean others don't - in fact, it cold be argued the fact you don't like those games in the spotlight shows you have no taste, because taste is subjective and the majority obviously like Devil May Cry.
Taste is something is acquired and cultivated over years of studying, experiencing and experimenting, as well as comparing and contrasting different things from different eras. Since I'm so pretentious then I go as far as to say that no one has any taste what so ever and they never will. Just because a lot of people like something doesn't mean that it is good or worthy of artistic merit. Rap music sells like crazy, but does that mean it is good? Does it inspire intellectual and creative thought in the mind? Does that mean that the hundreds of years of musical progression and innovation have come to rhyming over a drum machine? And when did I ever say that I didn't like Devil May Cry? Taste is not gobbling up every shiny bauble that crosses your eye or liking something because everyone else does. It is critically evaluating something. And it's defiantly not something that you are going to acquire with an attitude like that. Again you go by the weakest of argument, argument by majority which states "If 10,000 people say X is good, therefore X is good". A great example of how the majority have no taste and never will is that Paul Blart Mall Cop made $33.8 million dollars in it's first week, yet mention a movie like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and most people wouldn't even know what you are talking about. Think of it, even how the great Tim Burton liberally ripped off his style and ideas from German Expression and the previously mentioned movie, but most people wouldn't know because they don't look outside the ordinary and care little for the past. Or how many people bought the book Twilight and/or went to see the movie? Do you realize that just about any book can be published (it's called a vanity novel) and all you needed is a good publicist to get it hyped up for sale. So really, think critically and rationally before you just go out right and calling me a pretentious idiot when you yourself cannot appreciate the cultivation of the mind past the mainstream garbage that attracts tasteless morons like flies on dog shit.
Taste is something is acquired and cultivated over years of studying, experiencing and experimenting, as well as comparing and contrasting different things from different eras.
Its still subjective...
Since I'm so pretentious then I go as far as to say that no one has any taste what so ever and they never will.
Kinda contradicts your earlier statment...
Just because a lot of people like something doesn't mean that it is good or worthy of artistic merit. Rap music sells like crazy, but does that mean it is good? Does it inspire intellectual and creative thought in the mind? Does that mean that the hundreds of years of musical progression and innovation have come to rhyming over a drum machine?
People can like what they want, to some people rap is amazing, something you don't seem to realize just because society has drummed into you that X and Y are the ultimate in attainment doesn't make it so.
And when did I ever say that I didn't like Devil May Cry? Taste is not gobbling up every shiny bauble that crosses your eye or liking something because everyone else does. It is critically evaluating something. And it's defiantly not something that you are going to acquire with an attitude like that.
Hilarious, you don't get it do you people like what they want just because you like certain things doesn not make them any better in any way than something else.
Again you go by the weakest of argument, argument by majority which states "If 10,000 people say X is good, therefore X is good".
Actually that was just to prove how obviously wrong you are - that was a factor in my innitial rebuffle - people like what they want, just because you don't doesn't make you right, just proves you are close-minded - especially if you dislike anything populist.
A great example of how the majority have no taste and never will is that Paul Blart Mall Cop made $33.8 million dollars in it's first week, yet mention a movie like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and most people wouldn't even know what you are talking about. Think of it, even how the great Tim Burton liberally ripped off his style and ideas from German Expression and the previously mentioned movie, but most people wouldn't know because they don't look outside the ordinary and care little for the past. Or how many people bought the book Twilight and/or went to see the movie? Do you realize that just about any book can be published (it's called a vanity novel) and all you needed is a good publicist to get it hyped up for sale.
*Facepalm*...PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT TASTES! If they like a film then let them, just because you prefer one to another just means you have different tastes - it does not meant you have a better taste in any way however.
[quote]So really, think critically and rationally before you just go out right and calling me a pretentious idiot when you yourself cannot appreciate the cultivation of the mind past the mainstream garbage that attracts tasteless morons like flies on dog shit.
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I've said it so many times it doesn't even need saying - your pretty pointless argument that some people have better taste than other is deeply flawed because we are not clones and society affects and treats everyone differently - just because you like something doesn't make your taste superior to anyone elses in anyway - only different.
Taste is something is acquired and cultivated over years of studying, experiencing and experimenting, as well as comparing and contrasting different things from different eras.
Its still subjective...
Since I'm so pretentious then I go as far as to say that no one has any taste what so ever and they never will.
Kinda contradicts your earlier statment...
Just because a lot of people like something doesn't mean that it is good or worthy of artistic merit. Rap music sells like crazy, but does that mean it is good? Does it inspire intellectual and creative thought in the mind? Does that mean that the hundreds of years of musical progression and innovation have come to rhyming over a drum machine?
People can like what they want, to some people rap is amazing, something you don't seem to realize just because society has drummed into you that X and Y are the ultimate in attainment doesn't make it so.
And when did I ever say that I didn't like Devil May Cry? Taste is not gobbling up every shiny bauble that crosses your eye or liking something because everyone else does. It is critically evaluating something. And it's defiantly not something that you are going to acquire with an attitude like that.
Hilarious, you don't get it do you people like what they want just because you like certain things doesn not make them any better in any way than something else.
Again you go by the weakest of argument, argument by majority which states "If 10,000 people say X is good, therefore X is good".
Actually that was just to prove how obviously wrong you are - that was a factor in my innitial rebuffle - people like what they want, just because you don't doesn't make you right, just proves you are close-minded - especially if you dislike anything populist.
A great example of how the majority have no taste and never will is that Paul Blart Mall Cop made $33.8 million dollars in it's first week, yet mention a movie like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and most people wouldn't even know what you are talking about. Think of it, even how the great Tim Burton liberally ripped off his style and ideas from German Expression and the previously mentioned movie, but most people wouldn't know because they don't look outside the ordinary and care little for the past. Or how many people bought the book Twilight and/or went to see the movie? Do you realize that just about any book can be published (it's called a vanity novel) and all you needed is a good publicist to get it hyped up for sale.
*Facepalm*...PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT TASTES! If they like a film then let them, just because you prefer one to another just means you have different tastes - it does not meant you have a better taste in any way however.
[quote]So really, think critically and rationally before you just go out right and calling me a pretentious idiot when you yourself cannot appreciate the cultivation of the mind past the mainstream garbage that attracts tasteless morons like flies on dog shit.
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I've said it so many times it doesn't even need saying - your pretty pointless argument that some people have better taste than other is deeply flawed because we are not clones and society affects and treats everyone differently - just because you like something doesn't make your taste superior to anyone elses in anyway - only different.
Wow, are you a philosophy major cause you definitely blew me out of the water. Initial rebuttal? Facepalm? Those are some big words that my closed mind can't possibly understand. What possessed you to chop up my entire argument? Did I get you good or are you trying to prove something? Like I said, most people don't have what it takes to appreciate quality creative works. Then you are right and I am wrong? I am only human and therefore capable of being wrong, but what I like is definately way better than anything anyone else will. Are you that liberal-brain-washed that you have to think that everyone's opinion is valid? Being a human being, and therefore being self-centered, of course what I like is going to be better than what anyone else likes, unless they like what I like. But don't you understand that it takes a knowledge of art, of literature, of history and reason to dictate between the lackluster and the grand? Or can't your feeble mind comprehend that? Don't you understand the basics of human nature or are you that incapable seeing past the flickering ghosts of truth that you are told in school and on TV that you violently deny anything else that someone thinks that is contradictory to what you believe?(On that note are you a Christian or American? Both?) Or are you too busy looking for flashing lights and loud noises and sickening toilet humor to distract you from the pathetic piles of rotting flesh that we all are? And this - "Since I'm so pretentious then I go as far as to say that no one has any taste what so ever and they never will." 100% sarcasm (so was my first sentence in this little rant) and me being an asshole because you had to start of your statement by calling me a pretentious idiot when you can not possibly fathom the error of your words. It's little cry babies like you that make the world a miserable place for intelligent people all over. People that want to tear down the facade and take real problems and throw them in your face whether you like it or not. You again have proven my point in that you don't read critically. Comprehension is 1/3 of the battle, then comes contemplation and then comes reiteration and the cycle repeats.
The Black Adder: Wow, are you a philosophy major cause you definitely blew me out of the water. Initial rebuttal? Facepalm? Those are some big words that my closed mind can't possibly understand. What possessed you to chop up my entire argument? Did I get you good or are you trying to prove something?
Well your views are so idiotic and pretentious I felt the need to. That the sarcastic tone (seriously, I'm going to mention this later, but you call yourself intelligent - that made me laugh).
Like I said, most people don't have what it takes to appreciate quality creative works. Then you are right and I am wrong? I am only human and therefore capable of being wrong, but what I like is definitely way better than anything anyone else will.
You only think that because you beleive what you like is best - as all people do. Your failure to understand people have different opinions and that your "masterpiece" could look like trash to someone else is laughable.
Are you that liberal-brain-washed that you have to think that everyone's opinion is valid? Being a human being, and therefore being self-centered, of course what I like is going to be better than what anyone else likes, unless they like what I like. But don't you understand that it takes a knowledge of art, of literature, of history and reason to dictate between the lackluster and the grand? Or can't your feeble mind comprehend that? Don't you understand the basics of human nature or are you that incapable seeing past the flickering ghosts of truth that you are told in school and on TV that you violently deny anything else that someone thinks that is contradictory to what you believe?
You just admitted I am right - well done Everything you say is subjective, therefore it has no substance or meaning - you can't feasibly argue that your opinion is correct and everyone elses is wrong - you can only give your opinion - the fact that you think your opinion is superior when its impossible to be so is pretentious and arrogant.
Or are you too busy looking for flashing lights and loud noises and sickening toilet humor to distract you from the pathetic piles of rotting flesh that we all are? And this - "Since I'm so pretentious then I go as far as to say that no one has any taste what so ever and they never will." 100% sarcasm (so was my first sentence in this little rant) and me being an asshole because you had to start of your statement by calling me a pretentious idiot when you can not possibly fathom the error of your words.
Ok, it is IMPOSSIBLE to tell sarcasm from text alone... That and your by far in the wrong - as I am sure many would agree. People have different opinions - but that doesn't make your any more valid than the other persons. Just more informed in your own opinion.
It's little cry babies like you that make the world a miserable place for intelligent people all over. People that want to tear down the facade and take real problems and throw them in your face whether you like it or not.
Ok - this not only shows you are pretentious, but so arrogant you fail to see WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A VIDEO-GAME. Its people like YOU (i.e people who think their vision is the only correct one) that cause disputes are arguments because you fail to see everyone is equal. You are not more intelligent than anyone, I think you feel this way because of your social standing. Society has brought you up in a way that makes you feel superior to people. Heres a newsflash - you not.
Everyone is equal. Some may like populist games, big deal - who are you to judge them? I never stated I agreed with their arguments. On the contrary I dislike the DMC series. But arrogance and mis-guided pride such as yours is quite frankly pathetic.
You again have proven my point in that you don't read critically. Comprehension is 1/3 of the battle, then comes contemplation and then comes reiteration and the cycle repeats.
You think I honestly care what you have to say? I am replying to you to prove a point - that your ignorance astounds me and that your whole belief system is deeply disturbing, yes some people are smarter than others on a technical level, but it doesn't make their opinion any more valid than those "populists" you appear to dislike because they don't share your opinion.
PS - As your so intelligent I'm sure your know that its easier to read your long-winded posts WITH paragraphs.
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Devil May Cry Ships 10 Million
Capcom's stylish 3D action franchise has shipped over ten million units worldwide, Capcom announced today.
Count yourself as one in ten million if you've ever bought a Devil May Cry game in the eight years since the series made its 2001 debut on the PlayStation 2. The series that laid the foundation for 3D action games where you can knock guys up in the air and then shoot them hit a milestone recently, with Capcom announcing that the series has shipped ten million copies. That's shipped, not sold, though I'd wager sales are still presumably hefty given how long DMC's been around.
Devil May Cry 4, the most recent DMC game, accounts for the biggest fraction of that 10 million having sold 2.2 million copies, Capcom said. A look at Capcom's platinum sales stat chart, though, shows that the game has sold somewhere around 2.35 million. Meanwhile, the first Devil May Cry has sold 2.16 million, the second 1.7 million and the third 1.3 million. Totaled that comes to 2.5 million less than 10 give or take, which could be unrecorded PC sales or the shipped copies that haven't been sold yet.
It makes sense that DMC4 would be the highest seller, since it's the series' sole multi-platform entry, having appeared on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Which would suggest that DMC1 remains the title that had the biggest single surge of popularity at a specific time. It was the first of its kind, after all, and not just in the franchise but in the breed of fast-paced, combat-centric and style-conscious 3D action game that includes franchises like Ninja Gaiden and God of War.
Indeed, DMC1's probably still the DMC people think of when they think of the series. Which is kinda sad, since I have a soft spot for the third game. I mean, who can forget that one cutscene where Dante decides to run down the side of the building just 'cause and then proceeds to kill monsters while doing it before getting swallowed whole by a giant floating lizard as big as a blue whale. Not really hard to see why this series is so popular when you think of that.
[Via Edge Online]
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