The backlash against RE6 is strong, with lots of negative reviews from the biggest gaming sites out there.

The game currently has a 69 score on Metacritic, which for a main RE game is, well, terrible...now I don´t know how much it impacts sales for a game like this, but assuming the game fails at making a profit, what can we expect for the future of the IP?

I can see Capcom´s first move: "hand it over to a Western developer!"

Now, next week I´m borrowing a copy from a friend of mine and see just how bad it really is (hated the demo)....if it´s as bad as so many reviews are saying..well, it´s sad it took 600 people to make crap.

It has some influence on a small minority of people. It depends on the popularity of the game franchise as well. Sonic sells well even though every game it has is almost always torn up by reviews. The reviews and demos are really making me not want to get this game at launch but I'll still pick it up at some point regardless because I grew up with RE. Probably the same reason FF13 did so well.

I usually say Steam 7 bucks but in this case it will be Steam 3 bucks, 5 bucks is a big maybe.

There's definitely a correlation between reviews and sales, but I don't think we can say for sure that one causes the other.

As for Resident Evil 6, I see it selling poorly. Is that because of reviews? No, it's because it's a mediocre game, which just so happens to also have poor reviews. If it somehow received positive reviews, I'm confident that it would still sell poorly.

Big franchises are somewhat immune. It's still going to sell well. The people who like Resident Evil are going to buy it regardless. We also have to watch and see how it's reviewed in Japan. Sometimes the difference in tastes between Japan and the west can be very apparent in how something is received by the respective critics.

If there is one thing that bothers me about the current gaming generation, it's how how many people have come to allow reviewers to form their opinions for them. I've already seen tons of people who have not played the game talk about how awful RE6 and Capcom are, and a great many of those have made their minds up based on the score instead of the reviews themselves.

I gotta agree with you on this part. The game hasn't even been released to the market yet I've already seen 4 threads on the internet about how terrible this game is.

I no longer play/buy any RE since 4.

This is what happens when you don't buy Resident Evil: Revelations.

im still gonna play it

im with pokoko this franchise is too old and popular for it to be that effected by the reviews. Especially since this is a main entry. A game like Dishonored will be more effected because their is more of an unsure factor there.