Seems like a blunder in the West, and a smash hit in Japan. I don't get it. It's not like RE: Rev is a Monster Hunter game.

Also for the individuals talking about a 3DS Lite, the Cirlce Pad when attached provides the 3DS with 4 shoulder buttons. If it's going to be 'lite' I imagine that will be hard to replicate without the peripheral.

The audience demo for Resident Evil is 16-32 year old males primarily IMO.

That audience doesn't want console style gaming on the go in North America.

It's a problem for Nintendo, but a bigger one for Sony (Vita). Nintendo still has their bread and butter kids-young teens
market and nostalgic Mario fans to fall back on, Sony has nothing.

In Japan this is a different story, as people use handhelds to replace their console entirely. This is not the case in the West. 

I think it deserves more than that. I have no doubt this game's gonna be a million seller. Too awsome to be a failure

Good thing it's just a handheld spinoff then, huh?

And Code Veronica only sold a million or so itself. Give Revelations a few months. These handheld titles take a bit of time to show their strength.

They probably are talking about the 3DS XL Lite.

This is a silly comparison.

The RE series was alot more popular back then and every installment sold millions in Japan upon release until RE3. Code Veronica was also in the most technological advanced console of the time and all it didnt have was a number attached to it. It was a major release.

RE: Revelations isnt a game nearly as high on the technical spectrum for its age. Its also on a handheld and not a home console.

It performed extremely well in Japan, but for some reason it didnt in the west. I dont see why as its a pretty decent game. The game can still linger up to higher numbers with price cuts.

Well 2mil life time will be a good achievment I guess! It is a great great game!

Definitely not. If you look at the attach rate for the system, you'll see otherwise.

Not great, but not terrible. Meh is good.

Most games stores ordered RE:R based on pre-order figures. The problem is that few people pre-order games Nintendo portables so it was highly undershipped. The same problem was met with the Circle Pad Pro. They based their orders on how many pre-orderd the device which was a low number as most people expected they could just walk in and buy it as with most peripherals.

The Gamestop I shop at is having to wait 2 months (from release date) to obtain another shipment of the Circle Pad Pro and the clerks tell me that this has deterred a lot of would be RE:R customers...but it would be irrelevant anyway because they don't have any copies of the game in stock either.

To sum up, sales are great for the stock allotments provided and the availability of the corresponding peripheral.