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The Weekly Japan Preview: 2/3/08 Edition (A Smashing Debut, DMC4 & More)

VGCharts Jacob Mazel writes: This is a huge week in sales for Japan. Smash Brothers sold roughly 1,000,000 units in its debut week, but two other titles debuted with sales of over 100,000 – including Devil May Cry 4 which hit 205,000 for PS3. The Smash Brothers debut is the largest opening week in Japan in at least nine months. Riding on Devil May Cry 4's coat tails, four other PS3 titles were in the preliminary top twenty this week – quite the feat considering that no PS3 title had appeared in the preliminary data since early December.

Key Points:

-Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 all sold far more hardware and software than last week because of two key releases – Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Wii), and Devil May Cry 4 (PS3 and Xbox 360).

-Sony platforms had more titles in the preliminary data than the Nintendo platforms did.

-Smash Brothers outsold Super Mario Galaxy lifetime sales in Japan in one week

Hardware:

Wii: 140,000 to 200,000 units
DSL: 68,000 to 80,000 units
PSP: 60,000 to 66,000 units
PS3: 45,000 to 65,000 units
PS2: 13,000 to 17,000 units
360: 5,000 to 9,000 units

Key Software:

Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Wii): 845,000 to 1,033,000 units
Devil May Cry 4 (PS3): 184,000 to 226,000 units
Devil May Cry 4 (360): 40,000 to 50,000 units
Desgaea 3 (PS3): 31,000 to 39,000 units
Desgaea 3 (limited edition)(ps3): 31,000 to 37,000 units
Assassin's Creed (PS3): 29,000 to 35,000 units

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Cyrus3655924d ago

It shall be intersting to see what kind of Boost DMC 4 will give US to both 360 and PS3, and in Europe as well.

wiizy5924d ago

as long as nintendo has enough shipments every week...smash bros and wii fit will be on top of the charts for quite some time

desolationstorm5923d ago

Smash is gonna do so well when it gets all around the world. Im hoping that smash can move 1mil opening day in america. I think its possible aslong as nintendo makes a big enough shipment not to mention pushing some wiis on the market. DMC4 should make a big impact in america, though Id lean towards 360 as feeling the bigger impact of it.

Regardless though thats a lot of systems moving that last week especially the wii.

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC4d ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC4d ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Exvalos3d ago

What a weird name, it's essentially devil may cry, devil may cry lol

Cacabunga3d ago

Best to good for me: 3, reboot, 1, 5

2 and 4 are trash, didnt like any of them.
5 has very good gameplay variety but i hated the foes.. it is just insects the whole time. Reboot has the best foes for me

Friendlygamer4d ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey6024d ago (Edited 4d ago )

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya4d ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde4d ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

SeTTriP4d ago

This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.

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Two Devil May Cry games delisted on Steam

Two Devil May Cry games have been delisted on Steam. As shared on X, formerly Twitter, by Wario64, Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition and Devil May Cry 4 are no longer available to purchase.

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Chocoburger81d ago

Bless the adorably all digital future! When it comes to PC games its not as big of an issue because there should always be another way to access single player games, but still, I hate to see anything get delisted.

Aaroncls781d ago

Well, DMC4 special edition has a lot of issues to run from Steam.
I have to get a modded executable to even be able to run the game on Windows 10.
Not sure if it is because the game runs in DirectX10 or what, but it sucks they have not even tried to fix it.

Sephiroushin80d ago (Edited 80d ago )

DMC4 Special Edition is not delisted, it was just the standard version, it has nothing to do with issues of performance or anything alike. Its just that Capcom probably do not want to sell the standard version, neither the standalone DMC3 version.

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Devil May Cry 4 - 15 Years of Nero

Devil May Cry 4 launched 15 years ago today, bringing with it new character Nero. Has it stood the test of time?

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Knushwood Butt440d ago

Never liked it and I think I got it day 1.

Cheap Capcom design of half a game that you have to walk through twice.

5 isn't much different in that department. Encounter the same boss three times with three different characters? Endless warehouses or alien-like tunnels that all look the same.

chrisx440d ago

In DMC 5, it's 4 times you encounter the same bosses if you count the Vergil dlc lol

Knushwood Butt440d ago

Yeah, I'm only up to chapter 19 so the total count can only go up!

kevco33440d ago

No troll, I always preferred DMC.

No haters, please.

Knushwood Butt440d ago

I'm actually with you there, but DMC has that terrible writing. Alex Garland isn't it?

FallenAngel1984440d ago

Nero will always stand the rest of time against Donte and Viola