Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is Capcom’s Fastest-selling PC Game

According to what CAPCOM marketing director Antoine Mulant told MCV UK, the Japanese publisher’s decision to port Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen to Windows PCs has paid off in spades. The title has already become CAPCOM’s fastest-selling title on the platform and, assuming it doesn’t lose momentum, looks poised to hit other milestones in the near future:

(We are extremely pleased with the performance of Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen. It is our fastest-selling PC title to date, thanks to an audience eagerly waiting for it, and us delivering to the level of quality gamers were expecting,) marketing director Antoine Molant told MCV.

(Based on a similar sales period, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is in the Capcom’s Top Three PC releases after these few weeks, along with Resident Evil and Dead Rising 3.)

Hopefully the commercial results are good enough to convince CAPCOM to give the property another single-player chance. I’ve seen plenty of understandable complaints about the game’s lack of meaningful content, and that’s definitely something that could be fixed in a sequel.

However, I understand how the prospect might look less appealing now that we’re into another console generation and the average standards for graphical fidelity have been raised. As much as I would personally like it, a sequel that simply reuses the game’s assets and engine with more and more complex content (think of the transition between the first and the second Baldur’s Gate) might not be commercially viable for the company.