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Resident Evil is most beloved on:

Xbox consoles 26 13.83%
 
Playstation consoles 110 58.51%
 
Nintendo got Resident Evil 0 and nobody else 52 27.66%
 
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NightDragon83 on 03 October 2012
Bristow9091 said:
NightDragon83 said:
F0X said:
RE seems to be everything but an Xbox franchise. Main games do best of Sony platforms, and Nintendo nowadays gets a few exclusive spin-offs (one of which, Revelations, has comparable production values to the main series). 360 plays second fiddle to the PS3 and doesn't get any exclusives.

To be fair it's been a long time since Sony got an exclusive entry in the main RE series (not counting stuff like Survivor / Outbreak) at launch.  You'd have to go all the way back to RE3 for that.

In fact since the release of 3, Nintendo has gotten more main entry exclusives in the RE franchise than Sony has... Nintendo got 0 and 4.

 

... I remember playing Resident Evil 4 on my PS2, what are you talking about?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Resident-Evil-4-PS2/dp/B0007A5FY4/ref=dp_cp_ob_vg_h__title_0

It launched as a GC exclusive but was later ported, just as all the original PS1 RE titles were at one point or another.

The point being... RE 1-3 were the only Sony exclusives at launch... the rest were either exclusive to other systems at launch (Code Veronica on DC, 0 and 4 on GC), or launched on multiple systems simultaneously (5, 6).



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Chris Hu on 03 October 2012

It started out on the PS1 so I consider is a PlayStation franchise. Even though last generation the franchise got the most support on the GameCube and this generation its mostly multiplatform.



Nightwish224 on 03 October 2012

I'm still impressed by RE5's sales on Xbox 360. First RE on it, right?

But to answer you question, I don't consider it to be either.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 03 October 2012
Nightwish224 said:
I'm still impressed by RE5's sales on Xbox 360. First RE on it, right?

But to answer you question, I don't consider it to be either.


Part of the 360's fanbase came from the PS2. This should explain a chunk of those sales.



T.Rexington on 03 October 2012

None of the above. The franchise belongs to Capcom and Capcom only. They'll put whatever Resident Evil game on any platform they want.



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TheBardsSong on 03 October 2012

I think it will sell more on PS3, but not by much.



binary solo on 03 October 2012

Only because of Japan. If you take Japan out of the equation then Xbox360. But if you take USA out of the equation then it's back to PS3. So, yeah.

Anyway, the DS game is better than RE6 so I think it really should be considered a Nintendo portable franchise now. Or rather I think Capcom might see it that way now.



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kain_kusanagi on 03 October 2012

Resident Evil 1 is on Sega Saturn.

Resident Evil 2, 3 and Code Veronica are on Dreamcast.

It's a Sega franchise.



miz1q2w3e on 03 October 2012

Multiplat.



TeddostheFireKing on 03 October 2012
binary solo said:
Only because of Japan. If you take Japan out of the equation then Xbox360. But if you take USA out of the equation then it's back to PS3. So, yeah.

Anyway, the DS game is better than RE6 so I think it really should be considered a Nintendo portable franchise now. Or rather I think Capcom might see it that way now.


Surprisisngly, that isn't totally the case, if you look at the sales of RE5, American sales are roughly equal, with a big lead in Europe and Others. In Japan the lead is huge, but even without it, RE6 sales would probably be higher on PS3.