{"id":50240,"date":"2013-02-06T10:13:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T08:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=50240"},"modified":"2013-02-06T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T08:16:32","slug":"resident-evil-6-sales-not-meeting-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/50240-resident-evil-6-sales-not-meeting-expectations","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil 6 sales not meeting expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom has revealed its latest financial report (ending 31 March 2013), and the game company has expressed its disappointment in the sales of Resident Evil 6.<\/p>\n<p>Resident Evil 6 sold over 4.8 million units, and while that may seem like a lot for any other publisher, Capcom was not happy with the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite recording brisk sales when it debuted, [RE6] subsequently lost its momentum, resulting in the failure to achieve planned sales and fulfil its role as a driver of sales expansion,\u201d said Capcom.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, Capcom\u2019s new IP, Dragon\u2019s Dogma, exceeded expectations and became a surprise hit for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) G HD Ver, despite being the company\u2019s first Wii U game, was also a strong title in the fiscal year, as it performed well above expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Capcom racked up a revenue of 72.7-billion yen (R6.87-billion), and a net income of 6.6-billion yen (62-million), which was more than double it made from the same period in the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Capcom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capcom.co.jp\/ir\/english\/news\/html\/e130204b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Capcom<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More news on Capcom games:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49917-resident-evil-6-pc-exclusive-mode-release-date-confirmed.html\">Resident Evil 6 PC exclusive mode, release date confirmed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/50136-dmc-devil-may-cry-review-ps3.html\">DmC: Devil May Cry review (PS3)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48604-resident-evil-6-pc-launch-date-system-specs-revealed.html\">Resident Evil 6 PC launch date, system specs revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49138-remember-me-gameplay-trailer-released.html\">Remember Me gameplay trailer shows memory-stealing action<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46660-bleszinski-offers-to-fix-resident-evil-6.html\">Bleszinski offers to \u201cfix\u201d Resident Evil 6<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/46382-resident-evil-6-review-ps3.html\">Resident Evil 6 review (PS3)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom&#8217;s financial report notes RE6&#8217;s underwhelming performance <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":50242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1502,8686,8687,8689,8688,2037],"class_list":["post-50240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-capcom","tag-capcom-financial-report","tag-finances","tag-monster-hunter-3-hd","tag-monster-hunter-3-tri-g-hd","tag-resident-evil-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50243,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50240\/revisions\/50243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}