Dead Rising: Rising in the Charts

A lot of issues, both technical and content-related, have dogged Capcom‘s Dead Rising development and release as much as zombies have dogged protagonist Frank West – shrinking-text issues, censorship troubles and near-misses in Japan, Germany, and the UK, game seizure issues in the US. Based on BestBuy.com’s console sales charts for the week of August 6, however, the game and the undead debuted strong and proud, pushing the New Super Mario Bros. for the DS to second place.

One could probably consider that the zombies didn’t face much competition in the XBox 360 category in its August 8 release: the last full-retail 360 game released was NCAA Football ’07 last July, and the next hotly-anticipated game release is Madden ’07 later this month. Still, a pretty strong showing for the zombie-slashing game. And, given the delay issues game fans had to sweat out until last August 8, Capcom might be feeling rather happy over how Dead Rising has turned out.

Yes, and this guy must be pretty happy about the way the game turned out, too.

Via GameSpot

A lot of issues, both technical and content-related, have dogged Capcom‘s Dead Rising development and release as much as zombies have dogged protagonist Frank West – shrinking-text issues, censorship troubles and near-misses in Japan, Germany, and the UK, game seizure issues in the US. Based on BestBuy.com’s console sales charts for the week of August 6, however, the game and the undead debuted strong and proud, pushing the New Super Mario Bros. for the DS to second place.

One could probably consider that the zombies didn’t face much competition in the XBox 360 category in its August 8 release: the last full-retail 360 game released was NCAA Football ’07 last July, and the next hotly-anticipated game release is Madden ’07 later this month. Still, a pretty strong showing for the zombie-slashing game. And, given the delay issues game fans had to sweat out until last August 8, Capcom might be feeling rather happy over how Dead Rising has turned out.

Yes, and this guy must be pretty happy about the way the game turned out, too.

Via GameSpot