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puffy on 12 April 2009
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LordTheNightKnight said:
NJ5 said:

Another possible flop is Dead Rising for the Wii. Capcom expected 500k in sales, it's at 100k now so it's not very likely to reach that.

It's showing some legs in Japan though (selling 3k+ for many weeks now).

 

 

Although some think it deserves it because they are convinced the game was a cheap cash-in, when it's actually the most expensive kind of port, and they think it should look like RE4, when the 360 version wasn't that more detailed than RE4 (it's like comparing GTAIV to Gears; one is meant to showcase scale, and the other is to showcase graphics; there is no way the scale games can look as good as the graphics games).

But Capcom does need to market it more. That's one thing Ubisoft remembered. Even their casual games are marketed.

 

It deserves bad sales because Capcom tried to change the IP so much to fit into the RE4 engine but still sell based on the name and it worked out in a weird in between world.. They should have either created a new engine for the game to show case that scale, perhaps cel shading could have worked well.. But instead they did it awkwardly and the sales show that.. I wouldn't count it out yet though.. We all know Wii games have legs..