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

over the past few years every big decision capcom has to make it seems to me they always make the wrong 1 after dmc 4 it was blatantly obvious that capcom would never be able 2 eclipse dmc 3 which was probably the best game in the hack & slash genre period but i think for the best interest of the series they should of ended it after 4 because when u get a game as brilliant as dmc 3 every other sequel that comes after it is going 2 be a failure in some way and to carry on releasing sequels that are inferior is only going to keep hurting the franchises & capcom seem to be doing this with most of their game series i like the new dmc i think ninja theory did a great job & i think if the game had a different name on the box it would have sold a lot more copies i think capcom giving the game to ninja theory was a sign of capcom giving up on the franchise to reboot the game was the last throw of the dice it was the only thing they could do to try and salvage the series because 2 out of 4 games were successful. i think now the only thing capcom can do to redeem themselves is to focus on new ip's dragons dogma was a very good game & if they can learn from the negatives of the game & take fan feedback into account the second game could have great potential, remember me also looks like a very interesting game i. for me capcom need to put past games in the past and focus on new things until they have a development team capable of making dmc/res games as great as they once were.

4.8 million copies is better than RE6 deserves, Capcom needs to be both grateful and mindful of its mistakes and to learn from them.

WTF did you think is gonna happen capcom? You take two of your fans favorite and kill and rape them. Did you think they would suck your D****? no, majority didnt asked for them, and especially with FmC majority didnt buy it. If you would think before you make your shitty games maybe sales would be different. Either go back your roots or dont make any RE or DMC anymore... I know NT did FmC and they can also go **** themselves. Too bad this wasnt EA scenario because NT would be closed after this disaster...

Capcom stop killing your own framcises seriously!
I am a huge mega man fan give us Mega Man X9 or a new Legends and keep it in the old stylte bring the Mega Man X3 feeling back.
Also resident evil 6 ? WTF was that i am a old resident evil fan but code veronica X was the last good resident evil resident evil 0 was decent but that was it from part 4 and onwards it had nothing to do anymore with the old zombie virus. jesus man talking zombies with grenades and chainsaws.....

god i only hope monster hunter doesn't go down this way

but then again it is capcom....god damn it all.....

They can blame the likes of Kevin VanFail who played the game for 15 minutes and reviewed it. Most of the criticism of the game is completely unfounded.

i havent played the games, but this man has won me over with his way of thinking

Under what warped version of reality did Capcom actually expect to sell 7 million copies? 4.8 is about the number that RE V sold; did they think 2.2 mil rabid QTE fans were going to spontaneously crash-land on planet Earth with full wallets or something? Hell, after everything they'd already done to the franchise and their fans in general, I'm surprised it even sold that much.

Makes for some good comedy bait though:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/6377-Resident-Evil-6-Is-the-Epitome-of-Survival-Horror

Poor Resi, you want the action crowd but the action crowd doesn't want you. It's time to return to who really cares for you.

This is why Capcom. Square Enix and all other companies need to listen to their fans more. We are the ones buying your games!

How far the Resident Evil franchise has fallen since RE4.

That's because both games were absolutely terrible. Despite the recent release windows of both game it's pretty much obvious that Capcom really needs to rethink it's approach to the survival horror genre. With the power of next generation there's no excuse why Capcom can't make decent horror games in the future. Don't bother with a remake, but instead move forward and learn from these mistakes.

THANK YOU!! finally people learn.

Now please... don't be so bitch anymore Capcom, make a good game...

I Hope you learn CAPCOM .. I Really hope .

Glad this happened. RE4 may have had a bigger success then the classic RE games but it had a horrible legacy. I think RE6 proves that and many insperations that RE4 passed on to Epic Games, and EA which we have to thank for Gears of War and Dead Space. I find it quite funny though that some people are backlashing against Inspired dev's that decided to create there own vision's of RE4.

That really tells you something there. It's also quite ironic that since Capcom screw's there classic fans then everyone else jump's on board and does the samething. What a really crappy Legacy RE4 got.

The great thing is though the classic RE's Legacy may have been hushed at RE4's success but in some cases it never truly died. Zombies and even the Survival horror genre couldn't be anymore popular.

Hell Yes! Capcom go back to your root's because it's about time that Capcom did!

I like RE6. And DMC just recently came out!!! Give DMC a chance to sell. Jeez!!!

It didn't "lost its momentum" it was quite frankly just a crappy game. QTE is flat out destroying gaming. Enough of it already!!!

Oh yes, put her in the bargain bin with Medal of Honor, I still won't touch them. CoD inspiration is not what they thought it would be, see CoD fans only like CoD and nothing else so they didn't buy, and the rest of us like things that don't want to appeal to CoD crowd so we didn't buy. Developers, linear dumb cinematic QTE rich experiences is not what we want!!

DMC was a great game. I wish people would stop bit***** over the change of direction in the series. Honestly Devil May Cry 4 sucked compared to 1 and 3, and DMC is leaps and bounds better than 4 in terms of enemies, gameplay and story. Cant wait for the Bloody Palace. And as far a Resident Evil is concerned. Just give me Outbreak on the PS store. and reboot the whole damn thing. *steps off soap box*

Yeah RE6 sucked not just because it was different from the rest of the series, but as a porrly put together game. DMC however turned out pretty fun, the story telling was definitely an improvement and the characters seem to have a little more depth. Not to mention how well the control mechanics worked with the combat system.

I'm glad RE6 and DmC sold bad, there......... I said it! I said it!

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I hope the next Devil May Cry takes place after Devil May Cry 2, since we did not know what happened to Dante at the end of the Devil May Cry 2.

I don't care what other people thinks, I have played all the resident evils that came on ps1,2 and 3 and I liked them all no matter how low they are rated.

Sure the latest resident evils are not that scary, that's because if you have played and finished resident evil 1,2 and 3, then no other horror game is gonna scare you

another dragons dogma please

RE6 sales did not meet Capcoms expectations. Well RE6 didn't meet the fans expectations either, so suck it up Capcom.

I'm glad it did well enough for the series to live on, but a rethink is needed.

Reboot the series or remake 0-3

It just a one black hole in the running series of RE franchise . why gamespot always pointing that hole ? .I see many other franchise with many holes even they end up with dead story but we convince so .And if you argue to RE then you're just interfering with the fans .

I looked at the entire game on Youtube and seriously it looks ridiculous, first it seems that enemies take forever before dying. Second, bosses who endlessly mutate in something different (Leon's campaign). Third, a fighting (melee) campaign with Jake. Finally nothing scary at all. I won't talk about the controls because I didn't play the game, these are the things I've noticed on Youtube.

CoD effect ruined RE. Quit trying to appeal to these people.

Got resident evil 6 thinking was going to be alright got dmc thinking the same played both what a disapointment, my personal opinion DMC way to easy and short campain compared to the previous, resident evil 6 for me it just sucked people were so focused on the whole "i can run and shoot" that they forgot the rest played 2 hours of it most of it was cut scenes when i buy a game don't want to play cut scenes but even without i think it would still be bad maybe it's a game for the arcades not for consoles.

I hope they just put both series to rest and come up with some new a better games :O also do the same to the movies as the last one sucked ass.

Just put resident evil to sleep it had a good run since PS 1 till now no remakes just put it to sleep for a while

Just my 2 cents

JUST GIVE US REMAKES.
Thanks ;3