"The Remake sold poorly"

[Lazarus]

Now maybe this guy can eat his foot. The remake didn't sell poorly on Gamecube because it sucked. It sold poorly because it was on Gamecube.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/09/28/shinji-mikami-explains-why-resident-evil-series-became-more-action-oriented/

[Coleco_84]

Basically, yeah

[Meiwow]

Let him say whatever he wants, the evil within sucked big time.

[80TCS]

Not to mention that the game was yet, a REmake... A very good one, one of the best if we come to think of it... but still.. a remake... Just take a look on how positive people tend to be when it comes to remakes... then you can imagine the results... I guess some things never change...

[Seraphic/8X]

Yeah.. that's why Resident Evil 4 sold poorly too.. cuz it was on GameCube right? Nope. RE4 is far more accessible than the REmake.. that's why it sold poorly.

[Gamephreak5]

Originally posted by Lightning Farron:

Yeah.. that's why Resident Evil 4 sold poorly too.. cuz it was on GameCube right? Nope. RE4 is far more accessible than the REmake.. that's why it sold poorly.

^this guy knows what's up.

[Meiwow]

I don't care what sells good or what's good for a company, I care about what I want and what makes me happy.

[KeathalKrisom]

Originally posted by Meiwow:

I don't care what sells good or what's good for a company, I care about what I want and what makes me happy.

Something selling well will almost garantee a sequel (or in this case more REmakes to be made) so if you want this game and this game makes you feel happy then you should care.

[Revan1er]

Originally posted by Lightning Farron:

Yeah.. that's why Resident Evil 4 sold poorly too.. cuz it was on GameCube right? Nope. RE4 is far more accessible than the REmake.. that's why it sold poorly.

Well if we take a look at VGChartz we obtain:

Resident Evil 4 GC total: 1.69M
Resident Evil GC total: 1.42M

Sorry but the difference is not big enough for me. If the remake was considered as a failure how we can call the sell of RE 4? A disaster?

Now take a look on PS2:

Resident Evil 4: 3.62M!

So the most popular console sold more than the double of the GC version. It is not a great success if we compare the number of PS2 sold compare to the GC but that is the truth.
If the remake was also release on PS2 may be it would be a great success!


source: http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=resident+evil+4&publisher=&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=resident+evil&publisher=&platform=GC&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

[abugaj]

Action based RE was not the way to go. How you doing with money Capcom?

[Sammy]

To be fair, it was obvious RE was going in the direction of "Action" before RE4. It goes way back to Nemesis (which had way more weapons, ammo and combat than previous RE games) and in particular the Mercenaries minigame, which went on to inspire the Outbreak games.

[80TCS]

Originally posted by kromando33:

To be fair, it was obvious RE was going in the direction of "Action" before RE4. It goes way back to Nemesis (which had way more weapons, ammo and combat than previous RE games) and in particular the Mercenaries minigame, which went on to inspire the Outbreak games.

RE3 was supposed to be a spinoff named Code Veronica... RE: CV was supposed to be the cannon RE3... So, the real cannon RE wasn't intended to bring more action to the series...

[[TGSA] oujisan2236]

pretty much.

Shinji Mikami's mistake was not putting it as a PlayStation 2 exclusive which would of sold way more or even if it did come on crossplatform.

However Resident Evil Zero was anyway going to be a Nintendo Exclusive since it was originally made for the N64 but as we know rebuilt from ground up for the Cube.

still getting the GameCube for the Exclusive RE games was fun and i dont regret them at all. but i can understand those that couldnt at the time.. even now if they did something like that i would not bother

♥♥♥♥ is expensive these days

Originally posted by Revan1er:

Originally posted by Lightning Farron:

Yeah.. that's why Resident Evil 4 sold poorly too.. cuz it was on GameCube right? Nope. RE4 is far more accessible than the REmake.. that's why it sold poorly.

Well if we take a look at VGChartz we obtain:

Resident Evil 4 GC total: 1.69M
Resident Evil GC total: 1.42M

Sorry but the difference is not big enough for me. If the remake was considered as a failure how we can call the sell of RE 4? A disaster?

Now take a look on PS2:

Resident Evil 4: 3.62M!

So the most popular console sold more than the double of the GC version. It is not a great success if we compare the number of PS2 sold compare to the GC but that is the truth.
If the remake was also release on PS2 may be it would be a great success!


source: http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=resident+evil+4&publisher=&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=resident+evil&publisher=&platform=GC&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

you do know the Player Base for PS2 was much MUCH greater than the Cube right.

not to mention some of us rebought the game on PS2 for that little extra's

Yep i have like 2 copies (versions) of RE4

collectors purpose mostly and I will get the steam version once those sales drop further than 9.99$

[Revan1er]

Originally posted by oujisan2236:

pretty much.

Shinji Mikami's mistake was not putting it as a PlayStation 2 exclusive which would of sold way more or even if it did come on crossplatform.

However Resident Evil Zero was anyway going to be a Nintendo Exclusive since it was originally made for the N64 but as we know rebuilt from ground up for the Cube.

still getting the GameCube for the Exclusive RE games was fun and i dont regret them at all. but i can understand those that couldnt at the time.. even now if they did something like that i would not bother

♥♥♥♥ is expensive these days

Originally posted by Revan1er:

Well if we take a look at VGChartz we obtain:

Resident Evil 4 GC total: 1.69M
Resident Evil GC total: 1.42M

Sorry but the difference is not big enough for me. If the remake was considered as a failure how we can call the sell of RE 4? A disaster?

Now take a look on PS2:

Resident Evil 4: 3.62M!

So the most popular console sold more than the double of the GC version. It is not a great success if we compare the number of PS2 sold compare to the GC but that is the truth.
If the remake was also release on PS2 may be it would be a great success!


source: http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=resident+evil+4&publisher=&platform=&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=resident+evil&publisher=&platform=GC&genre=&minSales=0&results=200

you do know the Player Base for PS2 was much MUCH greater than the Cube right.

not to mention some of us rebought the game on PS2 for that little extra's

Yep i have like 2 copies (versions) of RE4

collectors purpose mostly and I will get the steam version once those sales drop further than 9.99$

May be I wasn't enough clear, but I said "It is not a great success if we compare the number of PS2 sold compare to the GC".

I wanted to say: The number of copy of RE4 sold on PS2 is not as great as we can expect because the number of player on PS2 was much higher than the GC player. So yeah, we said the same.

And can you determine the number of GC player who bought the game on PS2? So sorry but it just a minority, specially when you compare the PS2 and GC version. The GC was more beautiful. And the little extra wasn't enough for a lot of gamer.
All my friend prefered played at the GC version and so they never bought the PS2 version...

[Coldflame]

Originally posted by Lightning Farron:

Yeah.. that's why Resident Evil 4 sold poorly too.. cuz it was on GameCube right? Nope. RE4 is far more accessible than the REmake.. that's why it sold poorly.

I'll break it down:
not a huge amount of people have gamecube vs ps2, especially people who had a ps1 instead of an n64 (resi players)

REmake releases, not a system seller for RE fans and fell outside the target audience for GC

RE4 releases, is a system seller for RE fans because it's a mainline release

[[TGSA] oujisan2236]

Originally posted by Revan1er:

Originally posted by oujisan2236:

pretty much.

Shinji Mikami's mistake was not putting it as a PlayStation 2 exclusive which would of sold way more or even if it did come on crossplatform.

However Resident Evil Zero was anyway going to be a Nintendo Exclusive since it was originally made for the N64 but as we know rebuilt from ground up for the Cube.

still getting the GameCube for the Exclusive RE games was fun and i dont regret them at all. but i can understand those that couldnt at the time.. even now if they did something like that i would not bother

♥♥♥♥ is expensive these days



you do know the Player Base for PS2 was much MUCH greater than the Cube right.

not to mention some of us rebought the game on PS2 for that little extra's

Yep i have like 2 copies (versions) of RE4

collectors purpose mostly and I will get the steam version once those sales drop further than 9.99$

May be I wasn't enough clear, but I said "It is not a great success if we compare the number of PS2 sold compare to the GC".

I wanted to say: The number of copy of RE4 sold on PS2 is not as great as we can expect because the number of player on PS2 was much higher than the GC player. So yeah, we said the same.

And can you determine the number of GC player who bought the game on PS2? So sorry but it just a minority, specially when you compare the PS2 and GC version. The GC was more beautiful. And the little extra wasn't enough for a lot of gamer.
All my friend prefered played at the GC version and so they never bought the PS2 version...

oooh that makes sense now

and no i cannot that would require honesty from the internet.

I also prefered playing the GC ver it actually lagged on the PS2 in comparison.

sadly the cube was a better gaming machine than the PS2 IMHO just lacked titles.