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Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

I guess I'm just trying to make guesses at rationalizing their decision more than anything. Hard for me to really understand what they're thinking/going through.

Posted: Mar 27 2012 08:40 am

Basically it's your classic Behind The Music/E! True Hollywood Story. This Mr. T spending 50k a month on furniture because he assumed his income would always remain at the level it was at the height of his success.

Capcom was doing well, so it greenlit a bunch of projects and let its top producers spend as money as they felt like.

We saw this happen before. Square would be out of business right now if Enix hadn't bought them out.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Syd Lexia wrote:

The highest selling Resident Evil on a single platform was Resident Evil 2 at 5.82 million copies on PS2.

PS2?

Posted: Mar 27 2012 10:51 am

Whoops. I had the number 2 on the mind. Typo. PSX, obviously.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Any info on how many copies the N64 version of RE2 were sold?

Posted: Mar 27 2012 11:10 am

0.56 million on the N64, 0.06 million on the GCN.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

I didn't even know there was a GCN RE2. Explains the 0.06 mil lol.

Posted: Mar 27 2012 05:34 pm

My understanding is that for the US, the GCN pressings of RE2, RE3, and RE:CVX were limited to 30,000 copies each. So I guess maybe EU and JP were 15,000 each?

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

This kind of reeks of a marketing company taking over. I remember when the IL:Sturmovik developers bragged they were going to be "Call of Duty of the skies" which almost made me want to die a little, but once Birds of Prey (basically same-old Sturmovik) was released, it just sounded like some marketers who had never played a game and only looked at sales data told them what to say to the press.