Resident Evil 4 Remake launch 29% bigger than the GameCube original | UK Boxed Charts

Boxed sales bigger than 2020's Resident Evil 3 remake, but below 2021's Resident Evil Village and 2019's Resident Evil 2. 73% of Resident Evil 4's boxed sales were on PS5, 14% on the Xbox consoles, and 13% on PS4. These splits will likely not be as extreme when the digital data comes in, as Xbox tends to have a stronger digital share vs physical.

[Nyxus]

Atelier Ryza 3 debuts at #32.

[JEECE]

Lol the "install base" strategy is once again shown to be nonsense. PS5 version of RE4 Remake outsold the PS4 version by more than 5-1 (73% to 13%).

Lol when Ragnorak came out and the PS4 version flopped compared to PS5 I predicted the RE4 split would be 5-1 or 6-1 and came out right in the middle.
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[Aloymetal]

''Lol the "install base" strategy is once again shown to be nonsense. PS5 version of RE4 Remake outsold the PS4 version by more than 5-1 (73% to 13%).''
Exactly! The weird part is that this kinda thing happens most of the time with cross gen games so that whole nonsense of install base is moot like you said.

[CrimsonWing69]

Yea it’s funny because in theory the whole
Point of cross-gen was because they’d “sell more” on the console with a larger install base, yet every single time I see the current-gen sales outshine last-gen. It’s so dumb that we’re still stuck in cross-gen this deep into current-gen.

Let it go already, people. Let’s get some games that start looking like those Unreal 5 demos for chrissake.

[Aloymetal]

I have downloaded that 1st U5 demo on my pc and once in a while I play it just to admire the amazing graphics and lighting. Just incredible. Maybe we'll start seeing games with that amount of details by the end of this gen or even earlier.

[DarXyde]

Install base arguments are a bit strange because they often assume mutual exclusivity. You can't pit the full size of the PS4 base against the full PS5 base because there's a ton of overlap and people aren't out here buying the game twice.

In reality, it makes more sense to say the PS4 sales *potential* is "PS4 minus number of PS5's sold". People are very unlikely to buy an inferior version if they own both platforms.

[Aloymetal]

'' 73% of Resident Evil 4's boxed sales were on PS5, 14% on the Xbox consoles,''
''13% on PS4''. Glad to see most PS gamers supporting the PS5 even though there are more PS4's out there.

[Hofstaderman]

People waiting for it on GamePass?

[Aloymetal]

Most likely...lol

[Aloymetal]

Look at all those downvotes, there's nothing worse than facts and truth. It hurts;)

[DivineHand125]

There is very little reason for it to be released on game pass since I don't recall there ever being a resident evil game released on the service. The Remake is more likely to end up on PSN.

Not sure I can explain why the sales are significantly lower but my hypothesis is that there are significantly more PS5 consoles sold in the UK compared to the Xbox and at this time it is not clear how much the series S has sold compared to the series X. The series S is highly recommended by gaming influencers because of its price while very little is said about the series X due to it's lack of AAA titles on par with Sony's offerings. To change the perception of the Xbox, Microsoft will have to come out in a big way. Hopefully pushing the use of UE5 and releasing hell blade 2

[RedDevils]

Those cheapskate will do just that lol.

[DarXyde]

If so, I'm genuinely curious to know how developers feel about that: seeing people wait with the expectation that it will release on subscription services. It seems to work for devs who have little hope of their software selling gangbusters, but the expectation and entitlement with AAA titles is palpable when sales are poor.

It almost feels like desperation from developers where they invested the resources into making it and they kind of just capitulate and put it on the service. It's a good way to give titles a second life, but if people are just skipping it until it does (desire being interested early on), that's really unfortunate.

[MadLad]

@divinehand

They had Resident Evil 7 on the service for a good while.
Capcom and Microsoft actually have a healthy relationship when it comes to their games and Gamepass.

[Moegooner]

86% of sales on PS consoles. No wonder MS is heading towards purchasing publishers. It's the only way they can remain relevant in the gaming market.

[Aloymetal]

''No wonder MS is heading towards purchasing publishers.''
It is their only option, they tried everything else with no luck, even gamepass which is already 6yrs old hasn't flipped anything in their favor.

[TheEnigma313]

They've tried everything but release games at a decent pace.

[badz149]

they will say Sony make the deal with Capcom so the game will sell better on PS

[Hereandthere]

PlayStation saving the gaming industry single handily, sooner than later many 3rd parties ware going to skip Xbox altogether, Xbox will blame playstation.

[ufo8mycat]

You know which such low sales on XBox, 3rd Party Publishers deciding to skip releasing on XBox is not that far fetched. Why bother putting work into a platform no one is buying?

[neutralgamer1992]

That's why Microsoft are buying publishers. If sales dip why would a publisher release it

[Traecy]

Seems most people love playing the popular games on the PS5.

[Thundercat77]

Looks like the only way for Xbox to be able to compete against Sony in the gaming market is to buy all publishers and lock PlayStation away.

Fair and squared, Xbox has zero change of competing against PlayStation.

[darkrider]

You are making fun, but Microsoft won't stop after activision... This just shows why. They need to buy more publishers and force gamers in to buying their console...

[RedDevils]

If they continuing buy publishers like Activision, EA or Ubisoft that would just make me more happy to exclude buy anything from them.

[curtain_swoosh]

"14% on the Xbox consoles,''
13% on PS4'"

can u imagine almost being beaten by the last gen competitor?

[generic-user-name]

"bigger than the GameCube original"

I mean, probably not hard right? Didn't the GC flop?

[hiawa23]

Or they bought the digital copy.

[FallenAngel1984]

Wow the Xbox Series X|S physical version of RE4 sold about as much as the PS4 version

[darkrider]

Again another game that show the reality of videogaming. Where some buy games others just don't. No matter how good is the game.

[badz149]

the gamepass generation

[Ryuk_2007]

Is that good? It took the gamecube a whole month to sell 200k in EU back in the day. Also this is on like 4 platforms compared to 1.

[YodaCracker]

This game is just A1 quality. I think it’s my favorite game since The Last of Us 2. It just feels damn good to play and it’s beautiful to look at. Not many games get me this excited but I can’t wait to go home and keep playing it.

[EmperorDalek]

I'm amazed it's not doing as well as RE2.

[EternalTitan]

Capcom is on fire recently.
Here is good hopes for Dragons Dogma II.

[DarXyde]

Double post.

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