Hoewel mijn eerste indruk van Lost Planet 2 letterlijk wat een kanker spel was, heb ik me mening herzien. Want met vier man in co-op mode is dit één van de vetste en vooral intense third person shooters van dit jaar geworden. Alleen laten veel mensen (wederom mede door een slechte en niet representatieve demo) de game massaal links liggen, en volgens de website Kotaku is dit de oorzaak dat Capcom op het ogenblik een financieel verlies van 90.4% heeft. Mijn review van Lost Planet 2 kan je overigens hier lezen.

Capcom took a big spinning bird kick, right in the profits, which were down 90.4 percent. Ouch! Part of the blame fell on Lost Planet 2.

At the company's financial briefing, Capcom answered why the game didn't live up to sales expectations. According there are many rival titles in the genre, and the company didn't separate LP2 from them.

The other reason was, Capcom says, due to the game's delay, which caused the title to be shafted on the marketing it needed to be truly successful.

This doesn't mean Lost Planet 2 was a miserable failure - not by any stretch. Globally, Capcom has shipped 1.5 million copies of the game. While that is nothing to sneeze at, the game did not meet the 2 million plus expectations Capcom had for it.