Why did RE: Darkside Chronicles outsell D. Space: Extraction?

[noname2200]

outlawauron said:

Euphoria14 said:

noname2200 said:

Euphoria14 said:
Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles is coming after the previous Resident Evil on rails shooter sold almost 1.5M on the Wii.

I think you're overstating things. Last I'd heard, Capcom had only shipped 1.1 million copies, and the shipment before that had only amounted to 50,000.

 

In any case, I hazard to guess it's name recognition and better gameplay.

Then VGChartz needs to adjust I guess. I got all my numbers from here.

Pos	Game	Console	Publisher				Sales
1		Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles Read the review		Capcom				1.30m

A bunch of Capcom titles (on all platforms) are a little high.

You are correct sir! I just checked their site out of curiousity for the latest RE figures:

This site has RE4 on the PS2 at 3.05 million, while Capcom says they've only shipped 2.1 million copies.

According to this site, RE4 on the Wii is at 1.64 million, but only 1.6 million copies were ever shipped.

VGChartz says Umbrella Chronicles sold 1.3 million, but only 1.2 million shipped (which is a 100,000 more than I remembered!).