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stof on 15 November 2007

I'm just glad we finally know why so many Japanese bought Mario Galaxy. They were all waiting to get Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles!



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Cryoakira on 15 November 2007

Just to add a bit more weight about the (potential) come-back of on rail shooter popularity :

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/15/house-of-the-dead-2-and-3-wii-vived-in-early-08/



johnsobas on 15 November 2007

for RE:UC i don't think end of 07 sales and LTD sales will be very different.



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johnsobas on 15 November 2007
Cryoakira said:
@bdbdbd & Nighteyes 1981

First, while you're right UC isen't a "main serie" game, it still belongs to a very popular franchise and, don't forget it, isen't the first rail shooter in the RE univers.
IF you check various website, you'll see UC get a huge cover, far greater than RE5 on which infos remain scarce.

Beyond that, you're saying rail shooter don't perform well on console. Are you sure of that ?
We might lack some recent datas but House of the Dead 2 on DC did 260k, in japan only. Time Crisis 300k in japan only.

Beyond what might be considered as my biaised opinion, just ask yourself this :

- If this genre is not really popular, will Namco invest in a new Time Crisis and guncon ?

- If this genre is not really popular, why Konami would have shipped on retailers shelves more than 100 000 copies of UC (once again if the initial figure is real) for day one ?

Because to me, it would be a proof that Konami has high expectations on this title, on this genre, and do not consider it as a mere "cash in". So 100k would not be that surprising.


1. Some of these are popular arcade games, not just console.  300k is not very good for the highest selling one of all time. 

2. Capcom doesn't ship 100k because they decide to ship 100k, it's because retailers order them from Capcom.  If retailers don't want 100k, Capcom can't ship it.

Resident Evil has been losing popularity in Japan, so even the Resident Evil franchise wouldn't help that much.



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hanafuda on 15 November 2007

This thread is hilarious.

Nobody can actually read the original link, but because someone claims it says RE UC has sold 100,000 on day one, all the Nintendo fanbois are ready to throw a party to celebrate.

Some facts:

1) I live in Japan. RE UC was released yesterday. When I got home from work it was about 7:30pm, yet this thread already existed. How can anyone be reporting day 1 sales before the day is even over?

2) Before I came home I popped into my local Bik Camera to look for a few games. There was a big table display with a ton of copies of RE UC on it. A ton. I didn't however notice one person buy one.

3) Ghost Squad came out in Japan a couple of weeks ago. It hasn't exactly re-written the record books. 30K after two weeks IIRC.

4) RE UC is quite pricey, supposedly pretty difficult, and the content is hardly aimed at the family user base of the Wii.

5) RE4 Wii edition only did 125K lifetime in Japan.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 15 November 2007

Actually all of us are still waiting on official data, so don't jump to conclusions, all we are discussing is the ramifications if its true



 

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hanafuda on 15 November 2007
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Actually all of us are still waiting on official data, so don't jump to conclusions, all we are discussing is the ramifications if its true

The ramifications if true?

Really?

What ramifications are they then? 

 

 



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stof on 15 November 2007

Seems like most of the people on here are taking it to be just a rumour right now Hanafuda.


but IF it is true, I can imagine we'll see a bit of a bump for RE4 in Japan as well this week. But how much (IF it's true of course)? It sold just over 500 copies last week. Might this week see 1-2 thousand?



I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do. 

Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.

Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!

Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.

Zucas on 15 November 2007

I'm assuming this isn't confirmed yet.

Although it does seem reasonable. RE4: Wii Edition was a remake remember, and of RE, not FF or DQ so it didn't sale beastly and all that.

But this is technically going to be seen as a new game and will probalby tap into some big fanbases there. I was going to think that more about 100k-150k in its first week though rather than what this is suggesting of close to 200k in its first week.

But hell Japan has been so weird lately that I'm not willing to throw anything off yet haha.



Zucas on 15 November 2007

Woops double post