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oniyide on 31 October 2012
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the_dengle said:
oniyide said:
the_dengle said:
oniyide said:

The AC franchise is a huge one. they sell millions of copies yearly, sure some of that should trickle down despite reviews just like it did for Bloodlines. Naw critic reviews dont matter much in the face of these juggernaut franchises. Revelations numbers is nothing to be proud of not when ORC did much better on one console in a shorter amount of time and reviewed MUCH worst. Actually ORC proves my point there is a series not aimed at casuals and the game sold well regardless of reviews

You should tell that to Capcom, because they are proud of Revelations' sales. I don't hear anyone over there talking about a potential ORC sequel.


Link??? I hope they are, its a well made game. 

Eh, I seem to have remembered things wrong. I couldn't find anything about Capcom directly discussing Revelations' sales. However, if you read between the lines a little bit, you can find something in this 6-month-old interview with IGN.

First of all, the producer of the game mentioned that, "The incredibly positive fan reaction to Revelations has definitely given me motivation to make another 3DS RE title," and, "Hearing players say how much they enjoyed Revelations does kind of make me want to forget the other projects and get stuck right into making another RE game for fans to enjoy." Now, he's not talking about sales, but I don't think he'd be interested in a sequel if he perceived the game as a relative flop.

The more telling bit, though, might be this:

When we conducted our interview, Revelations had just debuted in Japan and was the #1 selling game in the country. Noting that this game had a more old school, survival horror focus than other Resident Evil games, we asked if this commercial reception encouraged him to continue this approach with future installments.

"Of course!" Kawata told us. "Game development is always a very taxing process, no matter what the project, and the only thing that gets us through is the belief that, at the end of the journey, there are people waiting to enjoy the game. So if a game sells particularly well, then we have good reason to make more titles like it."

I don't think I'm reading too much into this to conclude that RE:R's producer said that the game sold "particularly well," or at least well enough to merit a sequel. Of course, as mentioned, the interview took place immediately after the game's debut, when all he knew about was the first week of sales. But he liked the looks of that first week.


Thats just it though its only after one week of sales...in Japan. I wonder if he would say the same thing now, especially considering America where the game should have been doing much better considering the pedigree of the game in question. If your getting good critical reception, then of course you're going to wanna follow up, that goes for any medium regardless of sales, especially if those involved care about what they are doing (its no always about money). Not to mention the game has been heavily discounted for a while and its still only crawling along. Its less than 20 new on Amazon...damn shame really.