Sony exclusives that went multiplat have largely failed

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foxtail said:

VGKing said:

Chandler said:
RE 3 - 3,72
RE 4 - 7,45

 

That's PS1 to PS2. We're talking the transition into the current gen.(PS3 7th gen)

Since RE4 wasn't a Sony exclusive, we can't even do the comparison with RE5.

The funny thing is that RE4 was a Gamecube exclusive, but sold horribly. Once it hit PS2, it sold really well. I know this is off-topic, but this is proof of how 3rd party titles tend to not be very successful when put exclusively on a Nintendo platform. People prefer to play games like Resident Evil on a Sony or Microsoft console.

The thing is that Capcom announced the PS2 version of Resident Evil 4 with added extra content before the release of the Gamecube version, and that hurt sales.

Capcom later did a simple Wii port of the Gamecube version of RE4 (with the added PS2 content & Wii controls) and the game sold really well.  

In fact, if you look at sales (GC + Wii sales) > PS2 sales

Every resevil game has been multiplat. The game was never an exclusive on sony platforms, only a timed exclusive, and even then not by much. Like I said, whoever said RE going from exclusive to mulitplat obviously has no idea that resevil was never exclusive.