people buy this game ONLY BECAUSE THE NAME RESIDENT EVIL, FACT.
| Lostplanet22 said: Yeah half of the neo gaf npd thread posts are negative reactions about the game his sales :s Can't comment on it, didn't really played it :s. But if it is really that bad we should hope that the devs will not change RE 6 more to this game because of the sales.. |
lmfao! You do know that RE5 sold way more htan ORC right?
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Yes....
| chidori-chan2 said: people buy this game ONLY BECAUSE THE NAME RESIDENT EVIL, FACT. |
....Of course.
People buy Pokemon games BECAUSE THEY HAVE POKEMON IN THEM TOO!
Die-hard RE fans will buy all RE games.
I'm a bit surprised. I guess I credited reviews with more power than they really have.
I don't think this is a slam on the "do reviews hold a lot of weight?" as much as it's proof of how strong branding can be.
Think about it: this game would not have sold half of these numbers if it wasn't "Resident Evil."

Im surprised, yes.
e=mc^2

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| chidori-chan2 said: people buy this game ONLY BECAUSE THE NAME RESIDENT EVIL, FACT. |
Interesting theory, if only Capcom notified people that Revelations was also a Resident Evil game!!
As for Raccoon, well you can never underestimate the stupidity of the human apes known as man.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
| wfz said: I don't think this is a slam on the "do reviews hold a lot of weight?" as much as it's proof of how strong branding can be. Think about it: this game would not have sold half of these numbers if it wasn't "Resident Evil." |
Paid hype machine rollathon > reviews
If you sell it enough before it releases, people go and see it regardless of the reviews.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
People generally have no clue...when RE:Outbreak was released for ps2 I bumped into a bogan guy I knew who was running to the shop thinking the new 'proper' resident evil game had just been released