jarrod on 17 January 2010
| makingmusic476 said: Just look at the sales of something like Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube last gen. The GameCube was absurdly cheap by 2004, and the RE series had consistantly sold millions in Japan up until that point, but the GC version barely broke 200k. A year late port to ps2 ended up selling more. Peopel weren't even willing to fork over the $100 for a GC. |
Er, I'm not going to argue with your point, but this is a terrible example. The PS2 port of RE4 was announced before the GC version released even, it totally killed it's sales potential since pretty much everyone already had a PS2. Had the port not been announced, I think you'd have seen a ratio split more in line with what we saw for Tales of Symphonia (did 323k GC, 394k PS2).
