Capcom numbers: Lowest since 2005

[Viper1]

Mr Puggsly said:

Viper1 said:

Now you're just reaching.

The profit margin between RE4 and RE5 is irelvant.  The fact that RE4 is the 2nd best selling single console Capcom title this generation says a lot (MH3 being number 1).   I failt to grasp how a reduced profit margin (yet still highly profitable overall) has any merit to ignoring a console.   The potential to gain millions is there.  If RE5 sold the same as RE4 on Wii, that's revenue of over $32 million.  I highly doubt it would cost more than $10 million to have put RE5 on Wii.

Profit is irrelevant? I disagree.

You really narrowed that down. I mean a single console Capcom title of this generation. I won't even bother with that.

I don't know how much profit RE4 Wii generated. But lets remember it was only $30 at launch and I assume most copies were sold at $20.

I don't know how much it would cost to port RE5 to the Wii. More imporantly, I don't know how a much a QUALITY port would cost.

No, the differene in profit margin between the 2 titles is irrelevant.  You're insinuating that Capcom had no incentive to put RE5 on Wii because it wouldn't generate the same profit that RE4 did.  That's reaching for an excuse that would make any business executive scratch their head and look at you funny.   If RE5 would have generated $25 million in profit (and it certainly would with RE4 sales numbers), that can't be much lower than the profit generated by RE4.

Say RE4 cost $2 million to port to Wii and retailed with a profit margin of $15 per unit sold.  At 1.7 million sold, that's ~$23 million in profit.  Now if it takes twice that much money ($4 million) to have put RE5 on Wii and the profit margin is up to standard retail sales levels (~$25) and sells equal to RE4 (1.7 million), you get a profit of ~$38 million.

Now do you really want to keep claiming that profit levels of RE5 on Wii were the reason it didn't have a Wii release?

 

How about I point out the real reason.  RE5 was planned and began concept production before RE4 even launched.  In fact, they announced RE5 just 6 months after RE4 launched.   Because the GC edition was outsold by the PS2 edition and all early sales projections by the majaor marketing trend firms had projected Wii to sell at or below GC levels, RE5 was never even considered for it.  RE4 for Wii was an attempt to adjust planning and development to the sales of Wii as it far exceeded those sales projections but by then it was too late to include Wii in the RE5 development cycle.