First day sales in Japan: 6,400 units (30% of its shipment).

I don't know what Capcom's expectations were for Japan sales, but the fact that there are no reviews yet probably means Capcom doesn't have confidence in the game.

Much like games from shovelware companies, are they not sending out advance copies to reviewers in the hope that people won't realize the game is crap until too late? They did say they expect 500k sales in total.

More and more I want this game to fail. The hopes that it ends up being a decent title look like wishful thinking at this point.

as a wii fanboy, i want this game to fail.

i don't want to take any crap from capcom

As I said before, I don't think that the wii can sell regular games, call it trolling if you want, I don't care. If you're looking at numbers, here is what sells on wii:

- nintendo games
- casual games
- and of course "famous" games.

Wii userbase screaming for a new game, RE5 releasing on Wii with the HD console would have done wonders. Actually Wii sales would probably have wiped the floor with the HD consoles, that is why it will release later.

^its not that the wii cant sell regular games

it that crap is crap and wont sell

I went to metacritic and didn't find any. Some obscure review sources perhaps?

The original only sold 22k first week, and this one has already sold 30% of the shipment first day. I think this is exactly what Capcom expected and not at all indicative of the game's quality.

The game is that bad?

Considering they have extremely crappy things happening in official trailers (such as plenty of static enemies, some buggy animations and flawed collision detection), I'd say yes, probably. The fact that there are almost no reviews doesn't help to convince us otherwise.

The 360 version sold better overseas than in Japan. They don't take well to sandbox games there. And Capcom didn't expect it to sell a lot, or else they would have shipped more.

Plus this is a WII GAME. Why do you people ALWAYS FORGET you can't use opening sales?

Now the game could still sell poorly (as Okami unfortunately did), but claiming it dead on the first day?

I don't care if you hate it. That's outright ignorance of a pattern that has shown up again and again.