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

[johnsobas]

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.

1. Some of these are popular arcade games, not just console.  300k is not very good for the highest selling one of all time. 

2. Capcom doesn't ship 100k because they decide to ship 100k, it's because retailers order them from Capcom.  If retailers don't want 100k, Capcom can't ship it.

Resident Evil has been losing popularity in Japan, so even the Resident Evil franchise wouldn't help that much.