RE6: how much do reviews impact sales?...future of the Resident Evil IP.

[Jdevil3]

I'm getting my copy tomorrow (I hope). I've never given a crap about reviews. When I was a little boy I bought games based on word of mouth, what the box art looked like, who the developer/publisher was (if the boxart looked good and it said "Capcom", "Squaresoft" or "Konami" it was a guaranteed buy, lol), if I saw someone else play it and liked it, etc.
Nowadays I watch trailers, gameplay videos, play demos, check who the developers are, I still kinda do the "look at boxart" thing and if it looks cool, I go to the internet and investigate to see if I'd like the game or not, I even listen to soundtracks on youtube and sometimes base a buy just on the soundtrack. If I read a review it's because I'm probably going to make a thread to get people hyped about X game and maybe boost it's sales a bit if I think it's going to sell poorly :P.

I don't pay attention to review scores because they're just an average of different scores who have different opinions on the same thing. It doesn't really matter to me if the game gets lots of 3/10 reviews because that's someone else's opinion and MY opinion could be a 10/10... and that's the only opinion that matters at the end of the day. I still haven't bought a game and totally regreted it because it was crap with my method :P (touches wood).


By the way, Operation Raccoon City shipped around 2 million copies, right? I think this one, being a mainline Resident Evil and all that, will ship AT LEAST 4 million LTD.