oniyide said:
Cobretti2 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.
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this would only make sense if Mercernaries sold better than Revelations...which it didnt.
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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.
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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.
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That is why I said partiallyimpacted.
Capcom made no effort to let people knwo of the change, so who knows how many of those who knew about merchenaries skipped revelations.
I Know many copies of merchenaries did get returned in my local area at dedicated game stores. Even some of the sales staff were warming people about the issue and that the trade in value foe the game would be significantly lower due to the one save. Some store didn't even accept the game as trade in because of it.
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No effort? Capcom touted it as a true RE game for 3ds, it got just as much ads and attention as Mercenaries if not more. WHat more could they have done? If people chose to shut down after Mercenaries, thats on them, but looking at the sales, they didnt. I dont think it was impacted at all, unless you believe Revelations would have sold better if Mercs, didnt exist
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The Mercenaries game may have burned some RE fans that were drawn to the 3DS due to Revelations and Merc 3D due to how half assed it was and scared them away from Revelations despite the reviews pointing to the contrary for this installment. However, I suspect the RE game Capcom released that hurt Revelations sales was actually Operation Raccoon City.
They released that game around the same time as Revelations for PS3 and 360, combined with it sucking and the previous issues fans had with Merc 3D and even RE5, that may have broke the camel's back to the point fans were willing to give the spin off a shot. A shame because it actually had much of the gameplay RE fans have been craving since RE4 changed the dynamics more toward action. But given the general response to RE6, Revelations will probably be used as dangling bait for gamers that disliked RE6.
