Rumor: RE:UC sells 100,000 units first day

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Cryoakira said:

Nighteyes_1981 said:

Cryoakira said: 100 000 is good if true, but not exceptionnal given the install base.

Given the install base?  How many X360 games have sold 100k on day one?  How many of those were rail shooters?  The install bases are very close right now.  If it's true, 100k on day one has to be the best opening for a rail shooter ever.

A lot, hopefully for the 360, though you're right, they were not rail shooters. But is the genre a criteria ? I mean, Rail shooter is incredbly popular in arcade, a sector that make a huge come back both in the US and in Japan. I don't know...

Basically, if 100k is huge for an install base of 3,79 millions (Wii in japan), what is 182k (Dynasty Warrior 6) for an install base of 1,35 millions (PS3 in japan) ? 

Or in the US, with 2,32 millions of PS3, what are CoD4 (179k) and GH3 (113k) ?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's not a good performance (if the figure is correct), especially after what some other games did in japan.

It's just that, by a strange phenomena (called non-players), we're now expecting from the Wii games, sales that are way under the usual potential of such a big install base.

GH3 and CoD4, are "the main series" games, unlike RE:UC, so they basically benefit from the name in a diffent way than RE:UC. Still, the sales numbers for the games you mentioned were good, but they expected to sell good. Nobody expected Umbrella Chronicles to sell 100k in a day. Although i agree, that Wii offers arcade-type experience for rail shooters, beats playing with pad. Anyway, RE:UC is a spinoff, which is generally considered as a cash-in (the anti-hype i mentioned), since Capcom don't make RE5 for Wii, and they need to have something else than just RE4 port. And besides, since SMG sold 130k at day one, who would have expected Resident Evil spinoff to sell nearly the same numbers. @Kasz: Ten thousand sounds as unbelievable number for a "Biohazard" game (even for a spinoff) as hundred thousand. 100k sounds like right number for shipped copies, but that wouldn't be news. Their purpose isn't ship the number sold at day one, more like the number sold first couple of weeks, or at least until Capcom gets to ship a new stock. Of course, it's possible that someone has mixed "shipped" and "sold" numbers, but if it's sold out at Amazon Japan, it's sold out at least there.