Capcom Releases Lifetime Sales of All Franchises; Resident Evil, Mega Man, Disney Top Charts

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Tucked away within Capcom's recent financial results was a veritable goldmine of information on the company's worldwide software sales across the past 22 years.

The data is chock full of surprising revelations, such as the part where long-forgotten childhood favorite Duck Tales (NES) has outsold Dead Rising (360).

As pointed out by Next-Gen, Resident Evil is the company's best-selling franchise, amassing 34.5 million units in sales across 50 titles. The whopping 128 editions of Mega Man have sold 28 million worldwide.

Within the realm of individual software sales, the Super Nintendo edition of Street Fighter II reigns as the company's best-selling game ever, pushing 6.3 million units. Sadly absent from the million-seller list is Clover Studios' Okami (PS2, Wii).

Click through for the mind-expanding full list.

Worldwide units sold by franchise as of May 22, 2008:
Capcom did not define its use of title in the document, leaving it unclear as to if it counted different territorial releases of its various efforts.

    01. Resident Evil Series (50 titles, 34,500,000)
    02. Mega Man Series (120 titles, 28,000,000)
    03. Street Fighter Series (59 titles, 25,000,000)
    04. Disney Series (33 titles, 13,200,000)
    05. Devil May Cry Series (10 titles, 9,500,000)
    06. Onimusha Series (12 titles, 7,800,000)
    07. Monster Hunter Series (10 titles, 6,300,000)
    08. Dino Crisis Series (13 titles, 4,400,000)
    09. Ghosts 'n Goblins Series (15 titles, 4,300,000)
    10. Final Fight Series (10 titles, 3,200,000)
    11. Breath of Fire Series (15 titles, 3,000,000)
    12. Ace Attorney Series (11 titles, 2,800,000)
    13. Commando Series (2 titles, 1,200,000)
    14. 1942 Series (3 titles, 1,200,000)
Million-selling individual titles worldwide as of May 22, 2008:
    01. Street Fighter II (released June 1992, SNES, 6,300,000 units sold)
    02. Resident Evil 2 (January 1998, PS, 4,960,000)
    03. Street Fighter II Turbo (July 1993, SNES, 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, SNES, 2,000,000)
    13. Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny, (March 2003, PS2, 1,990,000)
    14. Aladdin (November 1993, SNES, 1,750,000)
    15. Devil May Cry 2 (January 2003, PS2, 1,700,000)
    16. Duck Tales, (January 1990, NES, 1,670,000)
    17. Street Fighter II' Plus (September 1993, GN, 1,650,000)
    18. Ghosts'n Goblins (June 1986, NES, 1,640,000)
    19. Resident Evil 4 (January 2005, GC, 1,600,000)
    20. Onimusha 3: Demon siege (February 2004, PS2, 1,520,000)
    21. Mega Man 2 (December 1988, NES, 1,510,000)
    22. Lost Planet Extreme Condition (December 2006, Xbox 360, 1,500,000)
    23. Final Fight (December 1990, SNES, 1,480,000)
    24. Resident Evil Outbreak (December 2003, PS2, 1,450,000)
    25. Duck Tales (September 1990, GB, 1,430,000)
    26. Resident Evil Code Veronica X (March 2001, PS2, 1,400,000)
    27. Dead Rising (August 2006, Xbox 360, 1,400,000)
    28. Resident Evil (March 2002, GC, 1,350,000)
    29. Mega man Battle Network 4 (December 2003, GBA, 1,350,000)
    30. Devil May Cry 3 (February 2005, PS2, 1,300,000)
    31. Resident Evil 0 (November 2002, GC, 1,250,000)
    32. Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition (May 2007, Wii, 1,250,000)
    33. Magical Quest Starring Mickey (November 1992, SNES, 1,210,000)
    34. Resident Evil DC Dual Shock (August 1998, PS, 1,200,000)
    35. Chip'n Dale Rescue Rangers (June 1990, NES, 1,200,000)
    36. Dino Crisis 2 (September 2000, PS, 1,190,000)
    37. Mega Man X (December 1993, SNES, 1,160,000)
    38. Monster Hunter Freedom (December 2005, PSP, 1,150,000)
    39. Resident Evil Code Veronica (February 2000, DC, 1,140,000)
    40. Commando (September 1986, NES, 1,140,000)
    41. Resident Evil Director's Cut (September 1997, PS, 1,130,000)
    42. Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts (October 1991, SNES, 1,090,000)
    43. Mega Man 3 (September 1990, NES, 1,080,000)
    44. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (November 2007, Wii, 1,050,000)
    45. Final Fight 2 (May 1993, SNES, 1,030,000)
    46. Street Fighter Alpha 3 (December 1998, PS, 1,000,000)
    SNES: Super NES
    GN: Genesis
    GB: Game Boy
    GBA: Game Boy Advance
    PSP: PlayStation Portable
    DC: Dreamcast
    PS: PlayStation
    PS2: PlayStation 2
    GC: GameCube
    Wii: Wii

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    May 23, 2008 10:57 AM

    I actually find this quite surprising. I would've figured that some of these titles would have sold way more. Especially the original Resident Evil which only sold 2.75m copies and the best selling Mega Man being the second one selling only 1.75m copies.

    This list, I would guess is world wide? Just says all time...

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      May 23, 2008 11:02 AM

      Not as many people played games or had access to games/game related info back then as well.

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        May 23, 2008 11:29 AM

        I suppose, but something like Super Mario Bros. 3 sold like 13 MILLION copies and it came out roughly the same time. :P

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          May 23, 2008 1:08 PM

          Super Mario Bros = Video Games to most people (back then). I don't think any other game is recognized by so many people.

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      May 23, 2008 12:01 PM

      Dude these numbers are insane, there are a handful of series that have better numbers than Resident Evil.

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