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JDWolf36 on 15 June 2007
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fooflexible said:
ckmlb said:
Yojimbo said:
RE4 for the Wii with more then the double hardware sold 50k first week. Let us see next week how much they sold.

This is key. If a remake of a game on a console with a much larger userbase did 50k first week, it's not suprising that a remake of a game on a console with a saller userbase has 20k first day sales it's actually pretty good comparitively. Also original RE4 sold better than original NG if I remember correctly.


 Yeah but I think you have to go case by case. Most people had a ps2 or cube, so most people that wanted to play RE4, did. While no one owned the original X-box in Japan, so it was there oppurtunity to get it. Plus NGS was addvertised and hyped like crazy for being so much better looking and basically hyped like a totally new game, while RE4 was essentially the same game with new controls, not very exciting. Nonetheless the userbase is bigger but I hardly think it matters I'm sure anyone who wanted it already owned it last gen. And this round people who were dying for the new controls, or the very few who somehow missed it went picking it up. The fact is you can still pick up the Gamecube version and play it on the Wii for half the price, you can't do that with NGS.


 I think with all of that you need to consider who is buying the game and the percentage of your buying body. For example if you say most PS3 fans are "hardcore" fans this seems like a game that at least 10% of your Japanesse population would snatch up the first day that's 100k that didn't work with about 20k sold and 1 million owners you get 1000k/20k~= 2% of your population if you want to make a direct comparison to the Wii and RE4 50k/2600k~= 2%. So in reality neither has sold better than the other yet they are pretty much about the same regardless those aren't the numbers you want to be taking devlopers 2% of our population buys a likely more expensive to develop remake or 2% of their population with a likely cheaper remake when in reality that means double the sells for their firm for spending less money.