Resident Evil 7

There is nothing trendy about RE7 aside from the camera, everything else is a series staple, weapons, item box, save rooms, boss fights, mutations, virus/bioweapon, cheesy lines, isolated location (mansion), helicopter/s, zombie-like-mutations, inventory management, creepy atmosphere, puzzles, exploration, etc.... RE0123456 had these.


Very funny, you might want to reconsider what you've said or you'll remove it out of shame.

Nah, not gonna delete it. Of cause when I say what I say I mean sales by the end of the fiscal year, in other words, by the time Capcom plan to sell 4 million copies (which they won't). Lifetime sales most probably will be better from ORC.

RE6 came with the goal to increase the fanbase and impulse the franchise in the modern trends. Watching the success of RE5 the company was confident in that direction and expected to be able to sell the 7 millions of units in their first 6 months. But things didn't went according to the plan.

Due to problems with the overseas contractors, the multiplayer modes were not going to be available for the release in November. Therefore the company brought the release early, for October, but also reduced their expected sales to 6 millions.

Once the game was released, it won the record to the Capcom's game with more units shipped (games requested by the stores for their sales) 4 millions, from them, 3 millions were sold in the first month at their release price.

Whith that income, Unless that RE6 were the most expensive game in development (more than GTA-V) there's is not way to make red numbers there. So those rumours about the game didn't recover development costs are mistaken.

- sometimes are confused by other people,
- other times are unaware of how the things works
- and other times are just misinterpreted in purpose.

So the development inversion was recovered for sure (and who don't want to believe it, they can go to the Capcom inverstor website and go reading the documents they were releasing around November and December 2012, where they mention the RE6 sales then and how its income helped to the company).

However, the goal as I said at the begining, was not recover the development costs, but increase the fanbase and reinforce the brand. After the first month, the sales decreased in a meaningful way, at the end of the 6 months, they sold only 4.9 million of units, also the game had a quite polarised reception. And great part of that 1.9 millions, were also with prices reductions. So the game made it well, but not as well as they had pretended.

Imagine that you study to get an A+ in an exam, but then get a B-... You didn't invested so much time and sacrifices to get a B-...

As the single game was not able to archieve that goals, ¿wouldn't have been better use those 600 staffs in develope more smaller projects? maybe they won't reach the 7 millions, but if with the same budget, they make 3 games of 3 millions each one... ¿? Well, that's one of the ideas that arised with that conflict.

So RE6 was not a financial failure (the goals are not the limits to recover development costs) however, despite it remained popular, it didn't archieve its pretended popularity goals, therefore, it failed in its goals. So later projects, as the extra chapters DLC's, were canceled.

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RE7 is a smaller game, (which was made with a smaller budget and smaller team) than RE6, so it doesn't need a similar goal than RE6 nor it has it, the own Capcom knows that the game are going to sell less,

- so it aimed to the VR in order to increase those sales,

- and promote it to a numbered installment to try make a bigger impact. (In October of 2015, nobody told Okabe nor any of the RE: Rev2 marketing team that the next numbered installment was not action anymore, so they didn't need to explain that Rev was the horror side of the franchise. If someone would have told them, they could have explained that the franchise change its mood, but well, nobody told him... My bet is because then, RE:VR was not yet the RE7, as RE:CV was going to be RE3 and such...).


About the 4 millions, I was not so pesimist, I though that

1 million for horror fans.
1.5 millions for RE game fans and numbered installment attraction.
1 million for VR.

The rest to reach till the 4 millions I though it could be reached with attraction marketing. But then, the VR is not making it as good, Will the Playstation glasses makes that impulse? And the marketing, it's not impressive yet, Kawata already told that as they had lower budget, they won't go with a big marketing, but right now I have not seen a makerting to gain general buyers, but more marketing to support and build that million of horror fans.

So right now I'm not so optimist, I think it will do better than the 2 millions of RE: ORC thanks to the VR sales, but I doubt it reach to the Top 5 of the Capcom best sellers.

Honestly, I hope not.

Games like Spin-offs and Remakes will be in 3rd person, classic camera... 

Main serie will be in first person.

I think this ;-;