Wed, Sep 08, 2010 | 03:51 BST

Dead Rising: Case Zero moves over 300,000 units in first week

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“You’re probably just gonna use this to buy brains, but you know what, I’m feeling generous today. So here’s a fiver.”

“Bless you, sir.” [Sounds of brains being devoured, screams].

A quick look at Dead Rising: Case Zero’s Xbox Live leaderboards shows 328,290 entries, which suggests that just under 330,000 players have forked over five dollars for the downloadable title since its launch last week.

We’d call that experiment a success, Capcom. What say we celebrate with a Twinkie and party over at the local mall? It’s fun, cheap, and zombie apocalypse-proof! Yeah, we party hard, but most importantly, we party smart.

Thanks, Gamasutra.

10 comments

Robster1979
08/09/10, 5:08 am

330k in a week is pretty impresive I reckon.
Just goes to show how price sensitive the market is at the moment.
Better to sell 330k units at $5 than 100k at $10 both financially and from a marketing perspective.
Well done Capcom, you’ve showcased your game to a lot of gamers and made some cash on the side.

Robo_1
08/09/10, 7:08 am

That’s an impressive number of units, and certainly the low price must have had something to do with it. Good, hopefully more dl games will follow suit.

M2Kx
08/09/10, 8:33 am

I don’t know if 300k is impressive, but I know that this game is Really looking forward to DR2 know, but still have to see some endings and get some achievements in Case Zero, very enjoyable.

CenoBit
08/09/10, 8:43 am

that’s impressive news.
Looking forward to the full game.

Blerk
08/09/10, 9:02 am

That’s rather a lot! Perhaps Microsoft could take a look at these figures and some of the rather more disappointing ones from the Summer of Arcade promotion and finally realise that not everything needs to be 1200 points.

mington
08/09/10, 9:32 am

I’m way more open to pre game release DLC like this

I’m sure the Mass effect 2 and Alan wake DLC are good and all that, but…i’ve finished the game! Donezo! On to the next. i’m not interested in going back 2 months later for an additional 2 hours

Every hyped up sandbox game could come with a pre game release story chapter like this and sell just as many

But, we’re yet to see if it’ll hurt the actually game sales. Before I bought case zero i had every intention on renting DR2, now….not so much

JonFE
08/09/10, 9:37 am

Now, if MS pulled their finger out and got rid of all this “This is not available for your region” nonsense, I might be able to test and -who knows- even buy this myself.

kasasensei
08/09/10, 10:21 am

thanks the good price