Resident Evil 6 'lost its momentum' to fall 2M short of target

so if you don`t want your game to be received well capcom then: DON`T LISTEN TO YOUR FANBASE.

...and uhhhh dmc reboot sucks ass that white wig joke is a big middle finger to the fans of the PAST Devil May Cry series. good thing the sales are not to your liking hope it never gets a sequel and just die like what you did with rockman/megaman

I can't believe this garbage sold 5 million copies while some truly inspired games will never even reach 1 million

Not surprised! RE4 was something everyone talked about. RE5 just bought it to HD, RE6 was just the developers going nuts and to be as mad as they possibly can to see Western looking characters getting killed or whatever. This is great news to me. Maybe to Capcom too because they're grossly tired of the people wanting to make RE6 (the actually crew who created it, not the fans) and too see the design crew run off with the wages Capcom provided to make more crap!

Devil May Cry was a good reboot. I wish people would see that thou! I was actually surprised by how good DmC became to be honest! People who didn't like it has no taste in art.

you know i used to love resident evil until this piece of shit i mean it wasnt a challange you didnt get money you got skill points and it was to easy to unlock stuff there was no beat the mercenaries and unlock a weapon or do this minigame to unlock a weapon, therefore thats why resident evil 4 was such a good seller it had class and chanllange

I'd like to point something out here: "Resident Evil 6 was critically panned upon release. It received a 4.5 on our site."

Hmm...let's take a look at Gamerankings. PS3 is 74%, 360 is 69%, averaging to 72%. Is that really being "critically panned" when the exact same phrase is used to describe atrocious messes like Sonic 06?

But hey, you can't trust Gamerankings like you can Metacritic, so naturally...wait...67 on 360 and 74 on PS3, averaging to 71. Huh. Guess you can't trust everything you read from biased review sites. Or--to be fair--maybe it was a misstatement on the part of Gamespot.

Seriously though, if getting in the 70's is now what we call "panned" instead of more accurate terms like "mediocre" or "average," I think gamers should take a long look in the mirror and ask themselves who's REALLY destroying the industry. Is it the companies? Or is it the rising standards that gamers refuse to control or slow down? Just a thought.

Resident Evil 6 didn't deserve to sell well because it was a terrible game. DmC, on the other hand, did in my opinion. Disappointing, but I suppose the standard Ninja Theory curse doesn't mix well with a mob of squealing fanbabies.

I'm starting to think that survival horror should be kept to the indie scene. Amnesia, Lone Survivor, and Slender were scarier than pretty much any big budget horror game I've played. Though I will admit to loving Dead Space's combat system quite a bit.

I know this is a big no no on the interwebz, but does this article sort of prove a certain company right about how the graphics and power race are costing the industry in a lot of cases? Back in my day (sorry, it is just so fun to say), a game had to sell 250K to break even, 500K to be a hit and if it hit 1 million it was a huge success. Now, if the game doesn't sell 7 million its in trouble? And lets talk turkey shall we, RE6 is one of the most sloppy RE games ever put out. RE5 is better in almost every way, and that game had all kinds of flaws. If RE6 cost as much to make as 5, the only games any of us are going to be playing within the next 10 years will stat with the word Madden or Call of D....

devilMAYcry: the reboot of a reboot. PROFIT!

I had a good time with RE 6 until I had to format my PS3 and lost everything I've downloaded for it. Since the game was clearly rushed and it still keeps getting updates, I quit for now. I'm waiting for RE Revelations and RE 6 Gold Collection.

And I hope, if Capcom plans to make RE 7, follow this recipe: 2 characters maximum to go through the story, oppressive, bloody environments, no censored deaths, the return of Claire AND, please, bring back the store box we had until Code Veronica!

They're lucky it sold that much. The game sucked. Bad.

They should either team up with Platinum or beg Mikami back. They don't have any other choices. Unless they want to get that Cliff B guy, but I think that would be bad(but probably successful).

Well Capcom... you realize you've got two choices now. Make the next game more about survival horror, or try to cram more frenzied action and inane button presses into the game. Oh god....... I know which one they'll pick.

Games don't typically sell well when you don't listen to fans and make shotty games, Capcom.

Be realistic people, the high rate of global unemployment and financial crisis will impact on all sales - regardless of publishers and developers wishes and dreams.... reality is the money for gaming and other hobbyist activities is sparse thesedays - levels of expendable cash are low.

I wonder how many of this can capcom take before becoming the next THQ. so far they've had 4 games in a row that haven't sold as expected: SFxT, RE:ORC, RE6, DmC.

going back some time, I've heard lost planet 2 didn't sell well, going even further back as far as I know okami has never really sold well even though it's a great games although I personally dislike the art style, also I believe beautiful joe never sold well even though apparently it's a good game (I also dislike the visuals), I also believe killer 7 didn't sell well, breath of fire dragon quarter didn't sell for s*!t and marked the end of the BOF games.

most of those games have been expensive to make, most of them were heavily promoted (which also costs lots of money), a lot of those games in all seriousness are not bad, but they either deviated to far away from what the fans knew and loved and failed to grab a new audience, others failed because they wanted to be a copy of something else, others failed maybe because of their looks but most importantly, a couple of them failed for capcom's own greed and they deserve that failure like a MOTHA F#$%A!

I'm surprised that even that many people paid so much for one long QTE interrupted by pesky gameplay.

No need to reboot the series, Capcom... Just bloody put "Horror" back into the next installment and forget about turning it into a CoD.

Played it round a friend's house for a few hours. Didn't like it. Didn't impress me. Seemed like a work of glamour without simple solid foundations that had made the RE series great. Net result = first RE game in the main series ever that I didn't buy and don't plan to either. It's just a shooter now, and not one as good as 4 was either.

Fans have no loyalty to publishers . Publishers have the right to squeeze the amount of budget on making games . Publishers don't get orders from higher people, They put the orders =Publishers lose the fans .

the RE series died when Capcon decided to turn it into a co op game.

if theyre going to do a reboot go back to single player.

I hope so, as a self-professed Resident Evil fanboy, even I had a very hard time sitting through the game. Leon's campaign was the only redeeming quality, and I played that scenario first, because I knew it would be good, of which I was partially disappointed. Playing the other scenarios, however, bordered on painful. Especially Chris' "Gears of Evil" campaign. I'm just glad I played as Piers, to help me forget that it was an RE game. Ada wasn't bad, but only because you got to play it solo.

This is what you get when you shit on your fans and publish your games with BS DLC tactics.

Take note game publishers. Anger gamers and you will suffer.

Nevertheless, I still wish RE come back to reclaim its first rank in horror genre.

I dont get why everyone keeps resident evil 4? It was my first resident evil and one of the main reasons I am a fan of the series

CAPCOM listen to the FANS!!!