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Devil May Cry 4 360 demo downloaded one million times
Capcom has announced that as of Saturday, Feb. 9th, one million Xbox Live gold members have downloaded the DMC4 demo since it’s release on January 24th. That’s over 25,000 downloads per day, undoubtly impressing Capcom as they reported it on their official blog. Microsoft has informed Capcom that this is the first demo of 2008 to hit a million downloads, as well as one of the fastest demos to hit the million mark in the history of Xbox Live.
This is quite the feat, but all that matters right now is how many of these million plus demo players actually bought or will buy the game for the Xbox 360? It seems the demo may have had an impression on some UK players as DMC4 is the top selling game there. The Xbox 360 version accounted for 61% of total sales. However, Japanese sales figures are quite different as first day sales indicate that the PS3 version of DMC4 outsold the Xbox 360 version 5-1; with the PS3 version selling 140,000 and the Xbox 360 version selling 30,000. Not bad sales for Microsoft in Japan, but PS3 sale numbers are very good there and will continue to rise. Here in the United States, we don’t release weekly sales figures, only monthly, so we will have to wait until March to get February sales figures.
Considering February is not a strong month for game releases, it’s entirely possible that it will be the top selling game in America. Will it sell as many retail copies for the Xbox 360 during the month as it did demo downloads? Probably not. Did the demo help sway some people who were either on the edge or not interested in the game? Probably. Which is why we will continue to see demos for quite some time.
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