| DavidValbu said: Sales of the franchise Resident Evil: Resident Evil : 6.7 M Resident Evil 2 : 6.08 M Resident Evil 3 : 3.52 M Resident Evil : Code Veronica : 3.21 M Resident Evil 0 : 1.34 M Resident Evil 4 : 6.28 M I have added all versions of one game (ports, remakes, director's cut ....) to obtein the final result. Studying the development of the sales we can figure out Capcom conclusions: · In RE3 sales started to decline. The franchise only sold half of what it used to sell. · The franchise was getting repetitive and users were not as fascinating as they were at the begining related to Resident Evil games. · They needed a change and made a probe with Resident Evil 4. This game have sold 6.28 M copies which means that the sales returned to the level of the first RE sales, which were very good news for Capcom. · Capcom will maintain RE4 style game until sales decline again. · If RE5 sales are half or less than RE4 sales, Capcom will reconsider the direction of the franchise and will give the franchise a change again. · If RE5 achieves the mark of 6M or higher, be sure we will have another pure action game in RE6. |
That's not a fair comparison because:
1. We don't have sales for the N64 and GC versions of RE1-3 (nor DC, seeing as you want to include all versions of each title).
2. While I agree you should have added the ps2 and GC numbers for RE4, throwing in Wii numbers doesn't make much sense, since many of those who bought the game on Wii were simply rebuying it. Similary, I wouldn't throw in GC numbers for RE1-3, as I'm sure many of the people who bought those bought them for the upgraded graphics (or the other features the remake of RE1 brought to the table).
All RE4's sales show us is that it rejuvenated RE's sales in the West, while drastically curbing them in Japan. RE4 barely broke 700k between the ps2 and GC versions combined, while RE1-3 all broke 1.5 million on the ps1 alone.
