RE......ouch

[Perfect Stu]

Don't talk about "the big head start"

Installed PS2 user base in Japan: About 6 million......divide 669,323 into 6 million, and you get 1 game for every 9 systems or so

As for RE...

Gamecube's user base is about 1.5 million in Japan.....divide 104,000 into that and you get 1 game for every 15 systems...



Whether it's a remake or not, it got a 39 out of 40 from Famitsu...and should be selling better than it is...

[Jonbo298]

Why don't we all wait for the US sales since they will most likely be better than Japan's sales due to the fact(from what I know) that people in the US like horror/blood/gore/fighting, you get the picture. Plus advertising here is better since we sit and watch TV all the time and whatnot. So, Capcom should wait before deciding on "exclusivity" to the 'Cube. We should wait for the US sales figures too I guess.

[fingersman]

Why don't all of you guys shut up? sorry i always wanted to say that. You can say RE didn't sell well in three days because of some reason or the other, you can say it's because of the user base...you could on and on blah blah...but the fact of the matter is it won't change that RE only sold that amount of copies. But the fact of the matter is...if it's an really good game it will sell.....so give it about a month and then you can analyse why it sold bad or good.

[Blix]

The title, which was listed on Japanese magazine Famitsu's Most Wanted list consistently before its release, was also the number-one selling game in Japan for the first several days after its release, according to Yahoo Daily Software Sales charts.

I think Resident Evil is not doing bad at all. And if my memory doesn't fail me Omnimusha was the first (or one of the first) good games to hit the Ps2. And it remain one of the only good games for a while. Just like Luigis mansion, Smash bros. and RS2.

[Sigma]

I think that there are more than 6 million ps2s sold in japan, but who cares.

Its probably cause GCs userbase isn't the type that would play games like that. Though I think its pretty good for a system that is just building, the more "mature" user base.

That has to be the reason its not selling like crazy. It'll probably improve over time.

[Sigma]

at least now we know what the GC userbase in Japan is like and that the "mature" user base is growing.

Thanks for the numbers stu.

[BreakABone]

Well here is something I came across in the letter section of GameSpot called The Spot (I know how creative, but I could see some troubles if they nanmed it G-Spot)

Anyhow apparently Capcom was only betting on selling 400k of those all together. So if you think about it getting 25% of your expected sales ain't all that bad and only in 3 days.

*Waits for Stu to comment*

*Grabs chair and takes a seat*

[newname]

all the people that bought onimusha 2 probly already had a ps2. a majority of people buying biohazard probly got a gc.