HolyCrap Onimusha sell like crazy!!!!!!!

From Dailyradar news:

Onimusha is selling like hotcakes in Japan. The medieval survival horror game reportedly sold 590,000 copies in the week of Jan. 25 alone.

Capcom said if Onimusha is succsessful they would being producing Resident Evil 4 RIGHT AWAY. looks like it\'s going to happen. Maybe we will get a demo with Devil May Cry

590,000 is a lot but not huge. I believe the last FF game sold twice that in the first week.

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True, but FF is an established series from arguably the world\'s most popular 3rd party developer.  Onimusha is a new title from capcom based game wise on a series that never held a candle to the FF series.  Besides, that\'s a huge number for a system that is reported to be a dvd-player only :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Animal Mother
Capcom said if Onimusha is succsessful they would being producing Resident Evil 4 RIGHT AWAY. looks like it\'s going to happen. Maybe we will get a demo with Devil May Cry

Yep, especially considering that number is greater then all otehr top 29 titles combined....
It will happen almost faster then RIGHT AWAY!

also considering the PS2 userbase is probably 1/10 of what Square had to work with when it released FFIX

Lets see Onimusha 590,000...Gonna sell lets say 856,876 games!If that made that much imagine what Big game titles such as:

MGS2:SOL=2,000,000 +

ZOE=1,967,354 POSSIBLY MORE

Dark Cloud=1,986,453 POSSIBLY MORE

GT3=1,584,398 PSSSIBLY MORE

GTA3=1,238,879 MAYBE

I\'m not surprised its selling well, the games frickin beautiful(even though they are using pre-rendered backgrounds...)

that game was a hit when they started developping it for PSX but then they  went  with PS2 it doesnt suprise me its selling i will buy it when it comes here

I might get it next week.

Japanese are crazy for Matrix-style stuff, and oni is full of Matrix-style fighting now isn\'t it?

Crazzy japaneses...

But I\'m happy it\'s selling well. It has to be good then!

560.00 is alot for the current japanese market, its kinda in bad state, guess how much JSR sold, only 100.000!!

Onimusha is definatly the first original must have for ps2, I\'ll get it for my import ps2!

platforms and developing new titles for next-generation platforms other than Dreamcast? Don\'t be. Charles Belfield, Sega\'s VP of corporate and marketing communications, told Gamecenter that as long as Dreamcast games remain profitable, Sega will continue to develop and publish them. What\'s a profitable title? One that sells "100,000 plus or so." So, to all you rich Dreamcast gamers out there: Make sure you purchase about 50,000 copies of every game you like. We\'ll thank you for it later.