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Forums - Sales - The Evil Within sold now 3.3 Million units, soon surpassing Resi 6?

NobleTeam360 on 08 February 2015

Just 5 million for RE5? you make that sound like it's a bad thing. Anyway who's to say The Evil Within isn't over tracked?



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SkyHold on 08 February 2015

This is not really impressive since TEWI is on more platforms than RE6.If RE6 get's ported to PS4/XBO (it probably will) it will sell even more easily.



SkyHold on 08 February 2015
Ruler said:
Fusioncode said:

To each his own. Felt more like an action game to me. 


I dont think so, it has all kinds of traps there and ammo is very limited. Its called survival horror after all and the evil within takes the survival apsect more than the horror one, thats what i can tell from what i have played so far


The game is just sloppy and all over the place.RE4 focused on one vison while TEWI has no clear purpose.It's like 10 games in one and it's not a good mix.He should have kept it simple like RE4.



SkyHold on 08 February 2015
Ruler said:
JayWood2010 said:

I dont understand why it sold so well.....No offense, i just dont. Alien Isolation deserved so much more. Amazing game.  Really want a sequel


Alien isolation has many weakpoints, the characters for example are very boring and unintresting, you encounter countless people which will die 5 minutes later. Even the main characters, like the original crew arent easy to recognize during the game. The evil withins main characters are pretty clear and their character design all different.


Characters on TEWI were trash too.The game is outdated as if it was a PS2 game.



arachnid15 on 08 February 2015

It is a very good showing for a new survival horror franchise. I doubt it will ever pass Resident Evil 6 because I think it is widely accepted that it sold more like 6 million. Still, The Evil Within obviously impressed many fans of the genre and considering the state of survival horror that is certainly good. I have yet to play it because I have gravitated away from survival horror recently. However, I may yet give this game a go once I catch up on some of my backlog of games. As others have stated, I am curious why Bethesda has not announced numbers if this has sold so well. That does seem strange.



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DJEVOLVE on 08 February 2015

I loved the game, so lets hope it can have some more legs.



MikeRox on 08 February 2015
SjOne said:
You think Bethesda is an unknown publisher? Hahaha


Outside of the Elderscrolls and ID IPs, they're pretty low key and certainly not a highly branded publisher IMO.

But I think that's because they don't seem to trash talk like Activision and EA etc do and just quietly get on with it.



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Wright on 08 February 2015
SkyHold said:


The game is just sloppy and all over the place.RE4 focused on one vison while TEWI has no clear purpose.It's like 10 games in one and it's not a good mix.He should have kept it simple like RE4.


The fact that the games is all over the place was done on purpose; it's not 10 games in one, but rather, a game designed as if it was a videogame. Every chapter tries to be different from the previous one so that the player keep enjoying the variations thrown at him. It's like playing Super Mario Bros, and each chapter being a different world, with different conditions attached to it. One chapter you're just dealing with a tough boss, the other you're facing invisible enemies, next one you're escorting a teammate, the following is based around an invincible enemy...etc.

 

While taking inspiration from it, I don't think Mikami wanted to reproduce Resident Evil 4 again, but rather, take a departure from his classical gaming structure. That's my take on it anyway.



Madword on 08 February 2015
Ruler said:

Counting all platforms the game sold close to 3.3 million, the ps4 version alone sold 1.5

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/72026/the-evil-within/

in comparison Alien isolation sold only 1.6 million units, resident evil 6 just 5 million units.

Shinji mikamis small studio tango made a fantastic job, a sequel is gurenteed. DLC is allready planned to come out this year and it sounds promising.

I think its amazing how such a small studio with a unknown publisher just sells 3.3 million games. I hope capcom will look at these numbers and make their resi game similiar, survival horror is profitable now.

Alien Isolation have only recently stated they reached 1 million sales... dont think that is accurate...but if they are that far out with that, who says Evil Within has sold 3.3 as that seems mighty high.



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baloofarsan on 08 February 2015
Chidori39 said:
Resident Evil 6 sold 6.1 million copies. Never treat Vgchartz numbers as fact.

I cannot find this 6.1 million sales figure for Resident Evil 6. Where did you get it?

I found this official number from one and a half years ago: 5.2 million 

http://gearnuke.com/capcom-releases-updated-resident-evil-series-sales-figure/

Also they revised their sales expectations down from 7 millions to 5 millions.

http://www.destructoid.com/resident-evil-6-fails-to-meet-sales-projections-again-253379.phtml