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Capcom Reports Record First Quarter
Capcom has reported record results for its first financial quarter ended June 30, 2009.
Net sales increased 19.2 per cent to 19,497 million yen ($204.5m/£123.6m), operating income jumped 23 per cent to 3,664 million yen ($38.43m/£23.23m), and ordinary income rose 2.3 per cent to 4,117 million yen ($43.18m/£26.1m).
“As a result, we marked the best net sales, operating income and ordinary income since quarterly release announcements began,” the company said.
Global shipments of Resident Evil 5 have now topped five million units, while the latest addition to the Monster Hunter series, Monster Hunter Tri, has shipped one million copies ahead of its launch this Saturday.
However, Bionic Commando, "which was targeted to the overseas markets, underperformed its projected sales," shifting 550,000 copies during the quarter.
The publisher also delayed the release of Dark Void until the first quarter of 2010 “to avoid competition with releases of major titles of other companies.”
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of course, it also makes sense to spread out upcoming (and former holiday 2009) games for financial reasons. if your new game gets buried under the COD/ODST train and whatever Sony's got coming out, all you end up with is a game that loses money as a budget title when the price drops by next March (or sooner).
Pushing Dark Void 'til 2010 not only gives the dev team a chance to make it perfect (PLEASE... no more patches for a console game!!!) - they can release a demo over PSN and XBL and let gamers know this won't be another Damnation. In fact, if the game gets excellent coverage from online and print folk, it'll help even more. Delays are only good for games such as this - screw the Wall Street idiots that go nuts when schedules change, I'd bet real money most of 'em aren't even gamers anyway...
And besides, games aren't just bought at holiday time. Publishers need to follow the DVD and comics model of releasing good games ALL year long (and brag about it), not just tossing it all the "A" titles into the christmas bucket and forcing consumers to play "grab bag."
"The publisher also delayed the release of Dark Void until the first quarter of 2010 “to avoid competition with releases of major titles of other companies.” "
Hmm, if everyone does this then won't early 2010 just be the new holiday 2009?
I knew Modern Warfare 2 was big but this is too much, I mean there is also Halo ODTS, but can't really blame them if its a new IP they are trying, last year the awesome Dead Space got lost in the sea of high profile titles and barely managed to be profitable enough to warrant a sequel and a Wii prequel.
True, I just keep reading that big title after big title are moving to early 2010 either to avoid the crowded holidays or because the games need more polish and eventually almost all the big games are going to come out by March of 2010 and it'll be just as crowded for Dark Void then as it would be at the end of '09.