Capcom Ships 3.5 Million Resident Evil 7 Copies, While Dead Rising 4 Underperforms

[Nautilus]

Anfebious said:

Nautilus said:

But you see, in an age that digital sales gets more and more important, to simply ignore it is to make an unfair comparison.

I will take your word up to it and believe that RE 7 is already falling behind in week to week sales compared to RE 5 and 6 physical sales.But RE 7 is available on PC, while they both werent(at least, not at launch or anywhere near it as far as I know), and PC sales are 100% digital.Going further into this, even digital consoles sales are relevant, taking about 20% of sales right now.If you ignore those numbers, and assuming that shipment numbers are somewhat close to the sell through numbers, you are basically ignoring 1 million sales, out of 3.5.That is too significant a number to ignore in an comparison.

The fairest comparison would be to compare the shipment numbers alligned.But I dont think we have that number, do we?

It wouldn't be truly fair since RE5/6 weren't on PC at launch so initial shipment numbers wouldn't include digital sales like RE7 does.

I would love to have digital numbers, I know they account for a lot of sales... but we don't have them.  As for the week comparision you can check it! Go and look for the games on the database and hit the global button, you have sales up to the 10th week. Further than that... you would have to go week by week. Too much trouble...

 

If RE7 didnt have the PC version, then the sales for the console counterpart could be higher, or at the very least a good part of the PC sales would be redistributed to the consoles.The reality is that RE 7 launched with a PC version.Dwelling on what if and scenarios that are too hypotetical will lead to nothing when discussing past sales.Thats my take on it anyways.

What I will say though, is that RE 7 was much better received(in general), than RE 5, and specially RE 6.So that could teoretically make its legs much better, and thats what im basically betting on(which in turn will lead to a very good LT sales for RE 7, finishing around 5 or 6 millions).But this part I admit is just pure speculation.