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oniyide on 23 November 2012
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ganoncrotch said:
oniyide said:
ganoncrotch said:
oniyide said:
Cobretti2 said:
KylieDog said:
Why would they put it on WiiU? The Nintendo core crowd will already own a 3DS and they clearly not interested in this game, putting it on WiiU would result in just as bad sales if not worse.


You can blame the bad sales partially on Capcom.

RE Merceneries only allowed one save file that couldn't be deleted.  After that point not many wanted to care for the Revelations. Even though the game is great.

 

Also WiiU fans would buy it if it had wii remote controls.

Look at RE4. Same crowd probably got it on GCN before.

this would only make sense if Mercernaries sold better than Revelations...which it didnt.

A person doesn't have to have purchased Mercenaries to have been swayed by the negitive PR that Capcom drummed up with it's pre owned value being nil, I had been planning to pick up Revelations on launch but after hearing what they did with Mercs I held off til just recently and picked it up Preowned. Gotta send a message with your wallet that on disc dlc and attempts on the used market wont fly.

clearly you are in the minority, because it doesnt change the fact that Revelations almost doubled the sales of Mercernaries, so obviously people were not that turned off by mercenaries that they didnt purchase Revelations. Maybe they just saw Mercenaries for what it was, a cheap cash in.

Considering that Revelations is the 7th highest metacritic rated retail game on the 3ds yet it sits at 17th in the Sales chart here behind the likes of Sonic at the olympics and Lego Star wars I think it's safe enough to assume that the sales of this game were heavily affected by outside factors. Very least of these factors at the time being the bad PR capcom recieved from both Street fighter X Tekken's on disk dlc and Mercenaries having no resell value thanks to the save data.

I think you're wrong, bad PR? lets be real, SFxTekken is a very different game than RE, different genre, different systems, diff. everything. People who are interested in that, would not really be interested in RE. DO you really believe that the majority of people out there even follow those kinds of news? I seriously doubt it, hell id be surprised if most of them know that those two games are made by the same company or if they even care. Id say Mercenaries had a SMALL and I mean small impact, Revelations still blew past it, so it cant have been much of a factor.

IMHO, i think people are just ignoring the fact that Revelations, just might not have been released on the "right" system. RE is a game that doesnt seem to fit with the 3ds crowd that much, or it just needs time to establish a fanbase on the system, comparing it to Sonci and Lego...those games were always popular on the portables, so its almost not a fair comparison. Which is strange because RE is so high rated and only a few are buying it, if anything it should be doing much better because this is the type of game that would be more affected by reviews than olympics or Lego games. No, im not buying the bad PR thing, not when the other Re games have been doing MUCH better. RE6 blew past it, no surprise there, but ORC got worst reviews, is a spin-off, released later and wasnt even developed in house by Capcom and the 360 version alone sold better, and Revelations had multiple price cuts...its f****d up