Onimusha: Way of the Sword sells more than one million units on launch day

Onimusha: Way of the Sword sold more than one million units on its launch day, according to an announcement from Capcom. The result gives the revived samurai action series an unusually strong opening and helps explain why Capcom is now talking about bringing more dormant properties back.

Capcom’s announcement says the game passed one million units on launch day. Gematsu also reported the milestone. The figure is a publisher-reported sales claim rather than an independently audited sell-through figure, and it does not by itself tell us how sales split between physical and digital copies or territories.

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Our opinion

Capcom has earned a proper victory lap here. A neglected samurai series returning with a million-unit opening is exactly the sort of result that makes publishers look twice at their own forgotten shelves.