Capcom Revise Resident Evil 6 Forecast Again, Now Down To 5 Million

By Ishaan Sahdev February 4, 2013

Capcom’s expectations for Resident Evil 6 have taken another hit. Initially, Capcom expected to ship 7 million copies of Resident Evil 6 by March 31st, 2013. Then, they revised that figure down to 6 million in October.

Now, they’ve revised it again. As part of their nine-month earnings for the period ended December 31st, 2012, Capcom have adjusted their forecast for Resident Evil 6 down to 5 million copies shipped by March 31st, 2013.

Additionally Capcom mentioned that Dragon’s Dogma has seen an additional 100,000 copies shipped since the last time we last checked on the game. Total worldwide shipments of Dragon’s Dogma are now up to 1.3 million.

Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.