KylieDog said:
DieAppleDie said:
RE 4 sold exactly the same as Remake on GC...how does make any sense |
RE4 sold 250k more lifetime, in the space of a few months mostly, compared to REmake's years of sales including as a budget platinum hits title. In other words RE4 sold copies for a higher price as well as selling more copies.
It wasn't entirely wrong to expect better sales from REmake, Code Veronica on Dreamcast sold 200k less than REmake in a short span of time before the Dreamcast died, and with a port to PS2 in only a year from first release which would have lessened Dreamcast sales by a lot. So REmake being exclusive on a console that wasn't going to die really should have pulled in much better numbers and made most of its sales near release.
Not that it wasn't a totally stupid idea to jump ship from Playstation where the series was born and made a success, for no real benefit (at least when FF did it from Nintendo to PS there were benefits like CD memory capacity). Should have been multiplat. RE0 too.
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Also, they would have no idea what RE4 would sell when making RE4. They just knew that REmake didn't sell what they wanted it too, so they would try something else.
