lilbroex said:
Soundwave said:
lilbroex said:
Soundwave said: None of the RE games on the GameCube really sold all that great to be honest. RE0 underperformed, RE Remake did so-so. RE4 did OK. RE4 Wii capitalized on the cheap price point + early Wii frenzy I think. RE: Revelations on 3DS did poorly. |
If breaking a million sold underperformed, is soso or is okay then I feel sad for most of the devs on the HD consoles who made games that cost 3 times as much to develop but didn't even touch 1 million.
That would mean that they would need sell 3 million copies just to have soso success.
Only 3 RE games on the PS2 reach 1 million. The rest bombed.
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How many RE games were even on the PS2? LOL.
Pretty much all the best selling RE games on are the Playstation format (RE, RE2, RE4 PS2, RE5 PS3).
RE5 just for reference on PS3 + 360 outsold RE4 on GameCube + PS2 by a pretty fair margin.
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7 were on the PS2. It saddens me to this day that RE5 outsold RE4.It was no where near as good.
Though this is beside the point of the article. They've left Nintendo in the dust when game were showing such growing success and it still ultimately cost them Mikami.
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The Resident Evil games have always done much better on Sony platforms and best now on Playstation + XBox.
Their "decision" to leave Nintendo in the dust worked out fine, I'd say, though Wii U will almost certainly get some kind of port of RE6 anyway.
How much of his own money did Mikami put into RE4? He spent millions of Capcom's dollars and years of development, why shouldn't Capcom have a say?
It's not like they didn't give Nintendo a fair shot, RE0 and REMake were exclusive, Viewtiful Joe was a 1+ year plus exclusive. P.N. 03 and Killer 7 largely flopped. The GameCube as a platform was largely a dissapointment barely selling 20 million consoles by 2005 versus 100 million for PS2, what's Capcom supposed to do? RE4 to that date was probably the biggest budget project they'd take on. The GameCube still got an exclusivity window on the game and the best version.
Lets run a business where you give me all the financing in millions of dollars and I turn around and tell you I don't feel like releasing our product in the biggest market, a decision that will freeze out 60% of your business and lets see if you're smiling about it. Somehow I doubt it.
This is business, not elementary school yard friendships. Mikami should've understood IMO, if he was embarrassed it was his own fault for making outlandish statements to the press in the first place.