Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles = Fail

By Jorge Ba-oh 18.09.2010 8

Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles = Fail on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Capcom posted their financial earnings report earlier this week, with Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles noted as a failed release.

The report (via IndustryGamers) confirms that for the fiscal period ending March 31st 2010, net sales were down for the same period in 2009, from ¥91.8 billion to ¥66.8 billion. It's the lowest net sales the company has seen since 2005.

Whilst still decent sales figures for the period, Capcom felt the drop was mainly due to the delay of big Xbox 360/PS3 games Super Street Fighter IV and Lost Planet 2, as well as failed releases like the gorgeous Wii on-rails exclusive, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles.

That said, fellow Wii title Monster Hunter Tri was Capcom's second highest seller for the period, topping 1.1 million units.

Capcom intend on pushing their franchises more beyond the gaming sphere, including film, television and other merchandising, and dabbling in more Japanese-centric franchises like Monster Hunter and Sengoku Basara.

Box art for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Developer

Feel Plus

Publisher

Capcom

Genre

First Person Shooter

Players

2

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  7/10

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  4/10 (5 Votes)

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Azuardo is online! Azuardo 18.09.2010#1

Shame. The two RE shooters on Wii were really good. I had a lot of fun doing co-op. I would love for a third game, and I'm sure Capcom mentioned that it's possible, but on this news, who knows? :/

 
Declan (guest) 18.09.2010#2

Good - maybe that'll be an end to Resi light gun games on the Wii.

meeto_0 is offline. meeto_0 18.09.2010#3

Thank god that chronicles failed and monster hunter was a huge success. Perhaps that will give capcom some indication of how to deal with wii's successor.

I have no expectations for any of the devs putting out good games for the wii at this point. I expect further decline of third party game production. I realised E3 did a good job of masking the fact that the big devs have nothing really planned for the wii for the future. They all seem focused on 3DS.

 
Mush is offline. Mush 18.09.2010#4

Azuardo said:
Shame. The two RE shooters on Wii were really good. I had a lot of fun doing co-op. I would love for a third game, and I'm sure Capcom mentioned that it's possible, but on this news, who knows? :/

I'm completely with you.

 
leonard (guest) 18.09.2010#5

What i dont understand is the first wii exclusive Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicals sold well , well enough to warret a sequel yet that new game failed ?? how does that happen did that entire audiance/costomers just vanish ?? lol

At 70 million plus wii's sold that number surely dosent represent mature audiances .

Still could quite be capcoms folt i mean the made the RE games exclusive on the gamecude and that sales for those games were very ReCV most of em prehaps expect Re4 and Re5 fail even with the cutsceens dialoge its like a teenager has put it together well one things for sure capcom dont seem to learn and no more resident evil games for the wii 8)

Azuardo is online! Azuardo 18.09.2010#6

I understand people being happy at this news. I remember I wasn't too fond of Capcom when they were only churning out on-rails shooters and the like. But having actually played the two RE Chronicles games, they actually put more effort in than you might think at first.

They truly captured the games they're about in FPS mode very well. Brand new CG cutscenes and a new story featuring Leon and Krauser before RE4 helped piece things together and create a really fun game for fans of arcade shooters and Resident Evil alike. I played both games with a mate who is a fan of both light gun games and Resi Evil, and we both really enjoyed it. We blitzed Darkside in a day and were practically dieing for a third game afterwards. Lots to unlock and hard modes were actually hard.

They didn't do the RE series any disservice with these games. But I do understand others' views because while the PS3/360 was getting RE5, we were getting just an on-rails shooter of previous games in the series. And while I've already said these games don't bring the series down at all, they aren't exactly on the same level as RE5.

All fans of Resident Evil should play the Chronicles games as they're really fun. Moreso in co-op. So I would definitely love a third game in the Chronicles series, but can understand fans wanting more from Capcom instead.

( Edited 18.09.2010 16:26 by Azuardo )

 
Parkrer is offline. Parkrer 20.09.2010#7

They just bring rails games to wii and just one of them did not sell, what else capcom expects

PS3 is just good for Catherine, Demons souls, Dark Souls, and Folklore
8)
 
Trepe is offline. Trepe 21.09.2010#8

I've got Umbrella Chronicles and I don't think it's very good, so I was put off buying Darkside Chronicles. I might get Darkside Chronicles at some point, if I can get it cheap. It does look better that the first. I just don't know if it plays any better.

 

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