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

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Cryoakira said:
@bdbdbd & Nighteyes 1981

First, while you're right UC isen't a "main serie" game, it still belongs to a very popular franchise and, don't forget it, isen't the first rail shooter in the RE univers.
IF you check various website, you'll see UC get a huge cover, far greater than RE5 on which infos remain scarce.

Beyond that, you're saying rail shooter don't perform well on console. Are you sure of that ?
We might lack some recent datas but House of the Dead 2 on DC did 260k, in japan only. Time Crisis 300k in japan only.

Beyond what might be considered as my biaised opinion, just ask yourself this :

- If this genre is not really popular, will Namco invest in a new Time Crisis and guncon ?

- If this genre is not really popular, why Konami would have shipped on retailers shelves more than 100 000 copies of UC (once again if the initial figure is real) for day one ?

Because to me, it would be a proof that Konami has high expectations on this title, on this genre, and do not consider it as a mere "cash in". So 100k would not be that surprising.

Looking at the sales, according to this rumor, you must be correct. What else can i say. One reason why RE:UC gets that much coverage, is how it splits opinions. Some people think it's really great to have Resident Evil railshooter, which gives more details for the RE games story, and some think it really sucks to have a non-survival horror game in the series. Just remember what the talk was 6 months ago even here at VGChartz about the game and the same can still be seen in various sites. But, i don't visit japanese sites, so i really can't say what the japanese gamers opinion is. The railshooters that have had success on consoles, are the same games, that have been popular in arcades and have somewhat had ”casual" appeal. RE isn't known for it's casual appeal (ok, the first parts did appeal to "casuals" with it's horror theme) or it being a shooter (although RE4 had a theme for more of a shooter).