I thought this was interesting as we rarely get to hear what a company internally believes a game will sell. But according to the link below reported by Cubed3 Capcom at a fiscal meeting revealed their sales expections for RE 4 :Wii Edition and Umbrella Chronicles.
It's as follows:
RE4: Wii Edition
- Expected: 420,000
- Japan's Total so Far: 82,344 (5 Weeks) 5,979 last week
- U.S. Total so Far: 134,954 (2 Week)
- Other Territories: ???
- So Total so far w is: 217,298
I imagine it could make another 150,000 in Japan and US alone, with another 100,000 in other territories, I'm sure others could provide much better estimates(and I hope they do), either way it seems on track to break estimates.
RE: Umbrella Chronicles was estimated to sell: 620,000 I imagine if RE4 breaks expectations they'll increase their estimate for this title. As I'm thinking it's rather low, and perhaps reveals a little insight on Capcom's hesitation to embrace the Wii as some other companies have.( I'm not saying they haven't, just haven't increased their offerings the same way Namco and Sega have.)
Here is the link:
http://www.cubed3.com/news/7952/1/Capcom_Reveals_Low_Resident_Evil_Expectations
