On Capcom's forums, Lost linked to a little section that showed world wide how many titles a particular Capcom brand has had, and how many averaged units the brand as sold total.

You have some Whoppers like Megaman who have over 100 titles and 27,000,000 units sold, and then the poor little commando series with only 2 titles and 1,200,000 titles sold.

But when you look at the Phoenix Wright series, which only has 4 titles under it's belt and 2,000,000 units sold it's really quite low on the food chain. In both titles and units sold it's the third lowest brand Capcom has at this point.

I was like 'eh', it's a 'relatively' new brand. But then I got thinking that the numbers don't quite tell all. For instance, Monster Hunter has roughly the same number of units sold as Dino Crisis, but half the titles. So doesn't that make Monster Hunter almost twice as valuable to Capcom as DinoCrisis? With numbers rolling I made this chart by dividing the number of units sold by the number of titles.

:: Units Per Title

1. Devil May Cry: 850
2. Resident Evil: 674
3. Monster Hunter: 666
4. Onimusha: 650
5. Commando: 600
6. Phoenix Wright: 500
7. Street Fighter: 438
8. 1942: 400
9. Dino Crisis: 338
10. Final Fight: 320
11. Ghost n' Goblins: 307
12. MegaMan: 230
13. Breath of Fire: 200

What really shocked me on this list, wasn't so much that Phoenix Wright was doing quite well for a simple text adventure, but MegaMan's suffered a lot of exploitation, besting only Capcom's long abandoned Breath of Fire RPG Series.

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Monster Hunter: 666

Omnious...

ON TOPIC: Kick-Ass, most definately. Obviously, increases in that particular number will not be exponential, but holding that position should be enough to make new AA titles worth producing. Of course, by the time... oh, lets say, AA11 comes out, the series may be naught but a shadow of the original trilogy, but what can you do? *shrug*

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Hopefully capcom stops at AA6.

Although we'll most likely get AA:Champion Edition.

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