Capcon is not the first developer to have found that their Wii products greatly acceded their own expectations. Guitar Hero III on the Wii was a surprise too. When a company says that a game greatly surpassed their expectations it means that it made a lot more PROFIT than they were expecting because obviously they expected some profit or they wouldn't have released the game.
RE4 and Umbrella Chronicles may not have been the biggest blockbusters ever but their revenue was important enough to have been featured in the opening paragraph, and first bullet item in their financial report.








