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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.

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.