Capcom releases lifetime sales numbers

PALGN News | Which franchise is the king of the Capcom castle?

Hidden within Capcom's latest financial results, the company is sure to sent rabid fans into a frenzy with the news that it has kept tabs on a wealth of sales information for all of its big unit selling franchises and breakout individual titles over the last two decades.

The figures date back over the last twenty-two years, and they provide gamers with an account of how well their favourite Capcom titles have sold across the world as of May 22, 2008.

As first pointed out by Next-Gen, leading the pack as the all-time franchise sales record holder is the classic action-horror series Resident Evil which has done big business since its inception with over thirty-four million units sold, giving it a large lead over both Mega Man and Street Fighter who popped up second and third on the list, respectively.

While the Resident Evil series proves to be the biggest selling franchise, the biggest selling individual title went to the classic arcade brawler Street Fighter II which sold in excess of six million copies on the SNES.

As Capcom did not define its use of titles in the document, it's not clear how they factored in different territorial releases (with their different game titles) of its catalogue of games into the final tally.

Worldwide Franchise Sales

Resident Evil - 34.5 million
Mega Man - 28 million
Street Fighter - 25 million
Disney Titles - 13.2 million
Devil May Cry - 9.5 million
Onimusha - 7.8 million
Monster Hunter - 6.3 million
Dino Crisis - 4.4 million
Ghosts 'n Goblins - 4.3 million
Final Fight - 3.2 million
Breath of Fire - 3 million
Ace Attorney - 2.8 million
Commando - 1.2 million
1942 - 1.2 million

Top Ten Individual Title Sales Worldwide

Street Fighter II (SNES) - 6.3 million
Resident Evil 2 (PlayStation) - 4.9 million
Street Fighter II Turbo (SNES) - 4.1 million
Resident Evil 3 Nemesis( PlayStation) - 3.5 million
Resident Evil (PlayStation) - 2.75 million
Dino Crisis (PlayStation) - 2.4 million
Devil May Cry 4 (PS3, Xbox 360) -2.3 million
Devil May Cry (PlayStation 2) - 2.16 million
Monster Hunter Freedom (PSP) - 2.15 million
Onimusha: Warlords (PlayStation 2) - 2 million

For those of you wanting to crunch a few more numbers, head on over to Next-Gen for a look at the full sales figures.

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14 Comments

Shadow Wave

3 years ago

anyone else suprised hoe disney titles have beaten Devil May Cry and Breath of Fire?

Kimberley Ellis

3 years ago

Not me. Aladdin on the Mega Drive ate up many hours of my childhood.

Sin Ogaris

3 years ago

Devil May Cry yes, Breath of Fire not so much. The BoF series was far less mainstream than the likes of Devil May Cry (or Disney for that matter).

ZNMS

3 years ago

Is anyone else surprised that Resident Evil 4 isn't in the Top Ten Individual Title Sales Worldwide list?

IISpacebreakII

3 years ago

Yeah Aaaddin was great when I was young ^^

Sooo...does this include the GB Zeldas? I thought one of them would of made the list...

Spanca

3 years ago

ZNMS wrote

Is anyone else surprised that Resident Evil 4 isn't in the Top Ten Individual Title Sales Worldwide list?

Combined sales may have been high enough but it doesn't seem too hard to imagine that neither the Cube or PS2 versions or even the Wii could top 2 million on their own.

bradc1988

3 years ago

Well there are just over 23 million Resident Evil sales missing from the individual title list so I don't know how RE4 perhaps on the PS2 wouldn't at least breach the list.

Spanca

3 years ago

Wiki says there's been 37 Resident Evil games (that's every platform release of every game, including spin-offs, ports, mobile phone games etc), so it's possible.

edit: other places suggest the PS2 version had only just hit 2 million sales, so it's probably #11 on the list with very little difference in it.

genxevo

3 years ago

why is resident evil on playstation on the top ten individual list twice?

unlachs

3 years ago

i think the top one is meant to be Resident Evil 2

nextgen.biz wrote

Platinum Games Unit Sales

01. Street Fighter II (released June 1992, SFC, 6,300,000 units sold)
02. Resident Evil 2 (January 1998, PS, 4,960,000)
03. Street Fighter II Turbo (July 1993, SFC, 4,100,000)
04. Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (September 1999, PS, 3,500,000)
05. Resident Evil (March 1996, PS, 2,750,000)
06. Dino Crisis (July 1999, PS, 2,400,000)
07. Devil May Cry 4 (January 2008, PS3, Xbox 360, 2,300,000)
08. Devil May Cry (August 2001, PS2, 2,160,000)
09. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (February 2007, PSP, 2,150,000)
10. Onimusha: Warlords, (January 2001, PS2, 2,020,000)
11. Resident Evil 4, (December 2005, PS2, 2,000,000)
12. Super Street Fighter II (June 2006, 1994, SFC, 2,000,000)
13. Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny, (March 2003, PS2, 1,990,000)
14. Aladdin (November 1993, SFC, 1,750,000)
15. Devil May Cry 2 (January 2003, PS2, 1,700,000)
16. Duck Tales, (January 1990, FC, 1,670,000)
17. Street Fighter II' Plus (September 1993, MD, 1,650,000)
18. Ghosts'n Goblins (June 1986, FC, 1,640,000)
19. Resident Evil 4 (January 2005, GC, 1,600,000)
20. Onimusha 3: Demon siege (February 2004, PS2, 1,520,000)

Tom101007

3 years ago

not really surprised, i mean alot of it comes down to how many different platforms the games were released on which explains why resident evil is at the top and disney games beat devil may cry

David

3 years ago

ZNMS wrote

Is anyone else surprised that Resident Evil 4 isn't in the Top Ten Individual Title Sales Worldwide list?

Well the list (as revealed by Capcom) is kinda busted, for some reason it combines the versions of Devil May Cry 4 but not any other games. RE4 is at 1.5 million shipped on GCN, 2 million shipped on PS2 and 1.3 million shipped on Wii, plus the PC version.

Spacebreak wrote

Sooo...does this include the GB Zeldas? I thought one of them would of made the list...

Yeah all four would, but they were not published by Capcom.

Kimberley Ellis wrote

Not me. Aladdin on the Mega Drive ate up many hours of my childhood.

The Mega Drive version of Aladdin wasn't made by Capcom. The later SNES version was though.

Kimberley Ellis

3 years ago

David wrote

Kimberley Ellis wrote

Not me. Aladdin on the Mega Drive ate up many hours of my childhood.

The Mega Drive version of Aladdin wasn't made by Capcom. The later SNES version was though.

Colour me confused, I thought it was the other way around..

That's why you're the brains of the operation David.

ugh the boot

3 years ago

Wow, i've been waiting ages for a chart like this (capcom being my fave devs and RE being my fave game series and all), I always figured Resident Evil had become Capcom's brean and butter cuz of the many rabid fans but I really thought the Street Fighter series would come out on top seeing as how long they've been around along with the number of different versions on many many different platforms (including arcade). Anyways i'm ecstatic to see Resident Evil at the top. Why? Cuz it means more games in the series and really that's all I need to keep gaming.

**** ing love you Capcom! Hopefully Dead Rising and Lost Planet have some more sequels cuz I think they're both top tier games that can follow up on Resident Evil and Devil May Cry's success.

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