Resident Evil 5 & 6 are the two biggest selling Capcom games of all time

Asus X540L

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/finance/million.html

Surprised?

kunst nugget

Asus X540L wrote: »

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/finance/million.html

Surprised?

Surprised Resident Evil 4 sold so little. I must have bought enough different versions of that to get it into the top 20 at least…

Noel82

Kind of a strange list since it combines multiple consoles for the Resident Evil games but only the Super Nes version of SFII. This one is quiet different http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Best_selling_Capcom_games

Also surprised RE4 sold so little, one of the best games ever! 5 was gash.

Retr0gamer

Now I've lost all faith in humanity.

CiDeRmAn

Sure, sales just means the franchise is popular.
Resident Evil 4 and it's myriad of ports brought the franchise back into the black.
The lacklustre 5&6 rode on its coat tails.
Pity they were pants.

Retr0gamer

**** boulders.

ERG89

5 isn't atrocious it's very average especially in single player.
As for 6, honestly that game dropped to a fiver so quick I'm sure many bought it thinking (wrongly) they'd enjoy one of the campaigns in it.

super_furry

There's the bones of a great game hidden in Resident Evil 6, it just needed someone to come in and edit it down into a 30 hour experience.

Retr0gamer

Resident Evil 6 was the worst game I played all last gen. It was out and out garbage. Chris's campaign is one of the worst pieces of gaming I've ever sat through. So much in the game just didn't work with some boss battles I bumbled through and felt like they came from a buggy PS1 game.

I heard the Resi 6 multiplayer is really deep and the mechanics of the game really come to the fore.

Resi 5 wasn't that great either.

The focus on multiplayer ruined them. Gone was the tight design and variety of Resi 4 instead replaced with.... well a god damn mess.

TerrorFirmer

Resident Evil 6 is a good game, just not a good Resident Evil game. I think I put more time into the mercenaries mode alone than I did entire other games I paid full price for but I really enjoyed the campaigns as well, apart from maybe the Chris option which was pretty poor (but I try not to complain about it given the sheer amount of content).

People like to act like it was a dud for Capcom but I've always pointed out that it one of, if not the, best selling RE game to date. RE7 was a return to form simply because Capcom had the dignity to put the legacy of the franchise above sales figures, and they deserve recogition for that but RE7 probably would've sold more if it was an action shooter like RE6.

Resi 5 is also one of the few games I've completed more times than I can even remember.

johnny_ultimate

Worth noting that Resi 4 is split across multiple platforms on this list, whereas 5 & 6 are not. Easily starts nudging towards the top when you count them all together.

Skerries

hated 5 and 6 but currently playing RE: Revelations and for a handheld game ported to PC it is a lot of fun and more of a return to the original games
The tight corridors and claustrophobic feel is where RE shines I think

OptimusTractor

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Now I've lost all faith in humanity.

You really need to let go of your anger against RE 6 man. It can't be healthy.

Does every current gen release give you Vietnam type flashbacks?

Generic Dreadhead

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I heard the Resi 6 multiplayer is really deep and the mechanics of the game really come to the fore.

You're going to summon Ropedrink with comments like that

Resi 5 wasn't that great either.

Wasn't awful either, particularly as a 2-player co-op game

6 was extremely forgettable, I had to play it kind of drunk to make it more bearable. It was so f**king directionless as a game.

super_furry wrote: »

There's the bones of a great game hidden in Resident Evil 6, it just needed someone to come in and edit it down into a 30 hour experience.

It was a ~25 hour game, it just felt like it was twice that long.
I'd have been happier if it was ~18 hours long though tbh

Angron

I thought Resi 5 was okay, I at least got some fun out of it, particularly playing co-op with my friend where we'd try to screw with each other without the benefit of friendly fire. The boss fight where you get a flamethrower, we discovered that can hurt your team mate so we would ignore the boss entirely, and just race to the flamethrower. 6 was bollocks though.

Retr0gamer

Resident Evil 5 just felt like a single player game half arsed out of a multi player game. It was unstructured and it kind if felt like a single player game were you fight bots in multilayer levels. It had the same feel from it.

gizmo

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Worth noting that Resi 4 is split across multiple platforms on this list, whereas 5 & 6 are not. Easily starts nudging towards the top when you count them all together.

My guess would be they're discounting sales of copies from platforms which came after the initial release of the title. For instance, they also don't count copies of RE5 and RE6 for the PS4 and XBox One and Resident Evil 4 for the GC and Resident Evil 4 Wii edition are included later in the list as standalone entries.

one armed dwarf

RE6 was bad in such a way that it became kind of funny. It's the poster child for boring homogeneous game design for the 360 generation

RE5 was just forgettable. I'd rather go back and play RE6 because it's good for a laugh at least.

TerrorFirmer

gizmo wrote: »

My guess would be they're discounting sales of copies from platforms which came after the initial release of the title. For instance, they also don't count copies of RE5 and RE6 for the PS4 and XBox One and Resident Evil 4 for the GC and Resident Evil 4 Wii edition are included later in the list as standalone entries.

Yes, counting all platforms, Resi 5 and 6 are still the best selling RE games.

People don't want to accept that fact because both games, especially 6, took a steaming dump on what made RE franchise so great.

But, taken in isolation, both games, particuarly 5, are incredibly good games.

Generic Dreadhead

You're entitled to your opinion, but Resi 6 was NOT an incredibly good game. It was a jack of all trades, master of none.

TerrorFirmer

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

You're entitled to your opinion, but Resi 6 was NOT an incredibly good game. It was a jack of all trades, master of none.

It was the best selling Resident Evil games in years. Not saying that makes it a good game but you would have to admit that it did something right.

It was a very good action shooter, with excellent co-op. Particularly, the mercenaries mode, but the campaign co-op was pretty stellar.

As a resident evil game? 5/10, but as a general game, very much a 9/10 in my opinion. Think I paid about €50 and put about 200 hours into it.

People rave about RE7 as a return to form and even though that's a well deserved and awaited response and Capcom deserve kudos for making the effort, RE7 did bad business compared to RE6.

The simple truth is that the more action orientated RE5 and 6 sold far more copies.

Generic Dreadhead

So what?
Call of Duty Infinite Warfare probably sold 10x as much as Bioshock 1 did at it's release.
Doesn't mean it's better.

Your post should have said "Incredibly Good Co-op Game" so in that case.
Cause in single player, when I played it, it was almost instantly forgetable, and I say that as a Resi fan of 2 decades who has owned/played all of the major entries (7 aside, waiting for full 12/12/17 release, even got VR for it) and a fan of a LOT of other shooters.
It was a laughable (as mentioned above), clunky, aimless, soulless mess of a single player game.

You seem hung up on them "selling far more copies".
I'm sure Star Wars Ep1 sold a LOT of tickets, doesn't mean it wasn't a cr@p entry in the series.
The brand carries HUGE gravitas in selling games

At least the graphics in 5 were pretty stellar at the time.
But i'm clearly not going to convince you otherwise if it's a 9/10, 200 hour, Incredible campaign, as you won't convince me :P

Sieghardt

Bad games that follow good games in a series sell better than they deserve
Good games that follow bad games in a series sell worse than they deserve

Rob2D

RE5 was great as a co op experience. I've put many many hours into that game. Multiplayer was great fun too. I was still able to get matches the last time I logged on.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Resident Evil 5 just felt like a single player game half arsed out of a multi player game. It was unstructured and it kind if felt like a single player game were you fight bots in multilayer levels. It had the same feel from it.

6/10 game then?

TerrorFirmer

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

So what?
Call of Duty Infinite Warfare probably sold 10x as much as Bioshock 1 did at it's release.
Doesn't mean it's better.

Your post should have said "Incredibly Good Co-op Game" so in that case.
Cause in single player, when I played it, it was almost instantly forgetable, and I say that as a Resi fan of 2 decades who has owned/played all of the major entries (7 aside, waiting for full 12/12/17 release, even got VR for it) and a fan of a LOT of other shooters.
It was a laughable (as mentioned above), clunky, aimless, soulless mess of a single player game.

You seem hung up on them "selling far more copies".
I'm sure Star Wars Ep1 sold a LOT of tickets, doesn't mean it wasn't a cr@p entry in the series.
The brand carries HUGE gravitas in selling games

At least the graphics in 5 were pretty stellar at the time.
But i'm clearly not going to convince you otherwise if it's a 9/10, 200 hour, Incredible campaign, as you won't convince me :P

You seem fixated on "I feel this way therefore it is".

For what it's worth, and I've no idea why you introduced it, but Infinite Warfare was probably the best COD campaign in years.

CiDeRmAn

Sieghardt wrote: »

Bad games that follow good games in a series sell better than they deserve
Good games that follow bad games in a series sell worse than they deserve

Resident Evil 4 sold loads, even though the franchise had fallen into a malaise.

Actually, the green shoots of recovery were probably first visible with the RE:make on the Gamecube as well, that was an eyeball peeling bit of awesomeness when it was released, made the Xbox and PS2 releases look pretty pitiful by comparison, and it still looks great today.

gizmo

I think the more notable point to take from that transition is the one Capcom and others seem to have noticed along the way, action games tend to sell more than straight up horror games.

Res 6 actually piggy backed off the COD craze.

Res 5 piggy backed off RE4s critical acclaim

Resident Evil 5 is actually a really enjoyable game. I pumped so much coop time in it.
RE6 was a fun romp but so forgettable. The mechanics were awful. And it's COD style nonsense was cringe inducing.

Asus X540L

5 would have been good if they didn't implement the co-op half way through, and of course, the "racist" changes.

You're in the middle of Africa and it's racist cause all the zombies are black?

2Mad2BeMad

I liked number 5
Was a really fun co-op game

But I absolutly hated the story with a passion, terrible direction to go

and I never thought of it as a resi game because of that, as well as the action shooter that it was.
Its a fun game with resident evil in the title but its not a resident evil game.

Number 6, well I played the demo for about 15 minutes then uninstalled. Terrible game.

I have still yet to play the latest one, but from gameplay it definitly looks like it has gone back to its roots which I prefer.

I do understand though that business is business and most people probably preferred an action shooter type game, specially seeing them sales figures in anyway.

Generic Dreadhead

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

You seem fixated on "I feel this way therefore it is".

Same could be said for you though no?

You felt after 200 hours in SP / Co-op / Mercenaries that Resi 6 was objectively one of the most incredible shooting games made, therefore it is

For what it's worth, and I've no idea why you introduced it, but Infinite Warfare was probably the best COD campaign in years.

I think I saw it listed as one of the ones that sold a lot put was not up to par with the other entries critically for whatever reason, I totally picked it out of thin air, I'm not a COD fan, it's merits in the series are lost on me. I see far less peopel wax lyrical over it than say, Bioshock or Wolfenstein or whatever

Regardless, you're not getting my point (and have said as much) and more focused on pouring over semantics of the off-the-cuff game I chose.

readyletsgo

This is bad news for re8 seeing as re7 did not sell well.

I loved 4, bought every version on all consoles (for some reason), 5 was great, played through the it a few times. 6...the less said, the better.

Now 7, that was amazing, played it in vr. Amazing game, can't wait for the next dlc.

But chances of re8 being like 7, very slim.

Ah lads, RE7 did sell well. Still nearly 4 million units.
And I'd suspect the gold edition will sell well at Xmas

gizmo

What's interesting to note is that Resident Evil 6 initially under-preformed, more than likely due to a fairly huge budget given the scale of the game, and its lifetime sales still haven't met the original projections. With Resident Evil 7, they lowered projections to 4m for this fiscal year and at 3.7m sold by the end of June they appear to be well on track to hit that.

What's also interesting to note is that they see the game as "a foundation title, producing revenue not limited to the next two fiscal years but into the long term as well".

The plan seems to be...

Q. To what degree will Resident Evil 7’s additional downloadable content contribute to earnings?
A. Earnings contributions from Resident Evil 7 will come primarily from sales of the main game, with
additional downloadable content playing a complementary role. We believe strategically
releasing appealing additional downloadable content to stimulate continuous interest among
game players will result in an extended lifecycle for the title, and will be important in exceeding
the lifetime units sold by the previous installment over the course of the game's life

So it looks like they changed direction fairly dramatically with the seventh entry and it's paying off for everyone, fans included?

one armed dwarf

Asus X540L wrote: »

5 would have been good if they didn't implement the co-op half way through, and of course, the "racist" changes.

You're in the middle of Africa and it's racist cause all the zombies are black?

It was more a case of problematic imagery than outright racistness.

Spear chucking savages harks back to racist propaganda. Having black zombies was never the issue. Adding a black sidekick doesn't fix it either.

madcabbage

I'd like to see how remastered versions of Resi 2 and Resi 3 Nemisis would fare against these sales. Older games were much better games.

Asus X540L

one armed dwarf wrote: »

Adding a black sidekick doesn't fix it either.

She wasn't even black. Mixed race at best.

ShadowHearth

RE 5 was horrible, horrible single player game, because partner AI was dumb as a rock. I just couldn't deal with it.
On the other hand RE 5 was fantastic couch multiplayer game. I remember good old daus of me and my buddy playing all night, 2 bottles of vodka and two massive pizzas. Some great memories or lack of them...
We tried RE 6, but I dont think we had a chance to play it a lot due to "insert any grown up excuse for limited time".

readyletsgo

ShadowHearth wrote: »

RE 5 was horrible, horrible single player game, because partner AI was dumb as a rock. I just couldn't deal with it.
On the other hand RE 5 was fantastic couch multiplayer game. I remember good old daus of me and my buddy playing all night, 2 bottles of vodka and two massive pizzas. Some great memories or lack of them...
We tried RE 6, but I dont think we had a chance to play it a lot due to "insert any grown up excuse for limited time".

Loved the single player in RE5! Just give Shiva the rifle and she never bothered ya again.

murphyebass

Played through 5 coop with my brother online. It was fun mainly cause it was co op and the control systems were t terrible. Bit of craic.

We then tried 6 and holy Christ that game was just awful. So much so we played about an hour or so and gave up.

I will say as well 5 didn't feel like a Resi game. Bits and pieces yes but overall it wasn't Resi.

6's controls were so bad I couldn't tell what it was.