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celador on 09 December 2016

Speaking to MCV, EMEA marketing director Antoine Molant said that the firm’s ambition is to sell 4m units in its first day on shelves worldwide. The exec cites strong pre-orders for the horror title.

"Commercially, [Resident Evil 7] is probably the biggest Capcom game we are releasing on the new machines,” Molant told MCV. 
“Ideally, we’d love to sell 4m on Day One globally. That would be great. Looking at what we see in the pre-orders and trends these days, we’re pretty confident we are going to get there. All the signs that we have seen across the market, whether it’s from the UK or from other territories, are very positive so far. We’re not sitting back and relaxing at all because we want to push that. The confidence is there.”
good luck I guess


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Darwinianevolution on 09 December 2016

Too many sales. They are overshooting this by a lot in my opinion. R5 and 6 got critically panned, and I don't know if they can muster enough hype for this amount of sales day one.



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Veknoid_Outcast on 09 December 2016

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Barkley on 09 December 2016

I'm not sure how that would be Ideal... as just a couple of weeks ago they said this.

"Capcom expects Resident Evil 7 to ship 4 million copies during the company's current fiscal year,"

If they only expect to ship 4 million copies before the end of march they don't want to sell out day one.



Swordmasterman on 09 December 2016

That is possible, but they will need to market it right, the game will launch in 1 month.



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think-man on 09 December 2016

I might buy it, looks like they are going back to horror roots which i respect.



 

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Platina on 09 December 2016

Quite the goal, not sure how much RE6 sold in the first month, but does seem to be quite high



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Platina on 09 December 2016
BraLoD said:
Platina said:
Quite the goal, not sure how much RE6 sold in the first month, but does seem to be quite high

Pay in mind it's first day here, not even first month XD

Oh right, even bigger goal o:



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Nautilus on 09 December 2016

I am loving what the game is showing so far, but thats beyond ambitious.I can see it making 2 millions day one, but 4m?I mean, its not impossible, but it will be an uphill battle.



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mrstickball on 09 December 2016

VGC says that Resident Evil 6 sold a grand total of 5.2 million units. Color me surprised that they think it can do 80% of its sales on day-1. The game looks great, but I hope they are backing this up with some form of metrics that will prove it through.



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