NPD January 2005
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Johnny Awesome
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I'm not spinning the Cube in a negative light. I was just demonstrating that all of those people who thought RE4 would move hardware were wrong. Overall, RE4 seems to be doing ok sales wise and will probably break a million units world-wide. It's a shame that the 6th best game of all time (according to gamerankings.com) is just barely going to sell a million units though.
At this stage of the game, I highly doubt any one game can make too much of an impact on console sales. Most people who are still buying consoles at this point are either buying their 2nd/3rd console choices, or simply are not that into gaming. Personally, if I did not have a GC already, I don't think I would buy one just for RE4, even tho it may be an awesome game. Windwaker was the reason I bought GC. I still have not had much desire to purchase an xbox but I may buy one at the end of its lifecycle just to complete my collection.
Johnny
To be honest saying RE4 will probably break 1 million worldwide already shows a lot of negativity. Its sold a lot better then RE or RE0 in its first month despite being released in January and both RE or RE0 broke 1 million worldwide.
BTW, if you really want to keep insiting that RE4 has had no effect at all on GC sales then I think you should take a look at past sales of GC in January
pahcman
I don't understand what you just posted there.
To be honest saying RE4 will probably break 1 million worldwide already shows a lot of negativity. Its sold a lot better then RE or RE0 in its first month despite being released in January and both RE or RE0 broke 1 million worldwide.
BTW, if you really want to keep insiting that RE4 has had no effect at all on GC sales then I think you should take a look at past sales of GC in January
pahcman
I don't understand what you just posted there.
Now I'm not going to defend johnny but Teasy, do you really need to be so sensitive with everything related to the cube? I mean, saying he's showing a lot of "negativity" because he used the word "probably" is just, I dunno, a little annoying.
He's just stating the obvious over and over again to get on your case. Yet, you keep falling for it. I think you need to learn to "let it go". you don't need to defend everything on the gamecube, all the time...
He's just stating the obvious over and over again to get on your case. Yet, you keep falling for it. I think you need to learn to "let it go". you don't need to defend everything on the gamecube, all the time...
Quincy
I wasn't complaining about Johnny being negative. I was just disagreeing with the comment in his last post "I'm not spinning the GC in a negative light". So sensitivity really doesn't come into it. Also I'm not falling for anything, just posting my opinion. If its annoying to you then you don't have to read it. What's a little annoying to me is your advice, which is a bit patronising IMO.
I wasn't complaining about Johnny being negative. I was just disagreeing with the comment in his last post "I'm not spinning the GC in a negative light". So sensitivity really doesn't come into it. Also I'm not falling for anything, just posting my opinion. If its annoying to you then you don't have to read it. What's a little annoying to me is your advice, which is a bit patronising IMO.
Teasy
I never said a word about "complaining" and I think you are being sensitive consideirng you want to pick out a single word from a post. IMO you ARE falling for it, again and again. he's just saying it over and over again to bother you.
you know what, he's right. RE4 failed to move significant hardware. Despite being a great game. So what? move on, who cares... and yes that was patronizing.
I never said a word about "complaining" and I think you are being sensitive consideirng you want to pick out a single word from a post. IMO you ARE falling for it, again and again. he's just saying it over and over again to bother you.
you know what, he's right. RE4 failed to move significant hardware. Despite being a great game. So what? move on, who cares... and yes that was patronizing.
You didn't need to use the word complain. You made it sound as if I was complaining about Johnny's negativity and so being too sensitive. When in fact I was just disagreeing directly with one of his comments.
The rest of your post is just the same old word twisting games and not worth responding to. Here's some advice for you, mind your own business. Your advice is about as welcome as a fart in a space suit
The rest of your post is just the same old word twisting games and not worth responding to. Here's some advice for you, mind your own business. Your advice is about as welcome as a fart in a space suit
Anyway back on topic. I was checking around and dug up the complete sales of RE and RE0 on GC in all territories. Since people often want to know what they are I might as well post them here:
Resident Evil:
First month/week (US/JP):
US - 145,000
JP - 119,019
Total:
US - 490,000
JP - 267,470
EU - 482,530
Worldwide - 1,240,000
Resident Evil 0:
First month/week (US/JP):
US - 113,000
JP - 190,394
Total:
US - 441,000
JP - 400,750
EU - 348,250
Worldwide - 1,190,000
Resident Evil 4:
First month/week (US/JP):
US - 319,000
JP - 145,000
Resident Evil:
First month/week (US/JP):
US - 145,000
JP - 119,019
Total:
US - 490,000
JP - 267,470
EU - 482,530
Worldwide - 1,240,000
Resident Evil 0:
First month/week (US/JP):
US - 113,000
JP - 190,394
Total:
US - 441,000
JP - 400,750
EU - 348,250
Worldwide - 1,190,000
Resident Evil 4:
First month/week (US/JP):
US - 319,000
JP - 145,000
Teasy said:
Goood find Teasy, I was going to PM you with the numbers but you beat me to it. Console sales spiking in January? After the holiday expenditures? I'll wait & see if there's an increase in Feb., & the selling of used & refurbished GCs definitely had a substantial increase. (have an acquaintence that manages EB)
Just okay huh? Last year only 1 game managed to break the 300k barrier, NFL Street on the PS2 which debuted itself in Jan. (333k) Let's not downplay its sales for the slowest period for software sales for the entire year, I expect at least another 500k or more in the next two months.
Edit: Teasy, RE4 is over 185k in JPN now, their initial shipment btw.
Evil_Cloud
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Ty said:
Q4 2005 in Japan, perhaps Q4 2005 - Q1 2006 in Europe and North-America. It's strange really, Eiji Aonuma is saying the title is already finished, but they will want to benefit from the winter season or make use of the extra development time to make the title as good as possible.
IMHO, it could shift quite a few GameCube consoles when it receives near perfect or perfect review scores.
'Evil_Cloud
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So, is Resident Evil 5 going to be exclusive or not? Will this depend on how well the GameCube version does? I can imagine Capcom's confidence being reassured in Nintendo when RE4 were to break a few records on GameCube.
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