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Resident Evil Hits Wii Platinum Times Two...Nearly News
Jon Wilcox
06/02/2008
Capcom confirms its financials for the nine months of the fiscal year to date as the undead franchise continues Wii success...
Capcom has today become the latest in a string of publishers to post their financial results, and has revealed that the Resident Evil franchise continues to be just as strong on Wii as other platforms.
In the months between September and December 2007, global sales of Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition topped one million units, following the title's success on GameCube and PlayStation 2 in the past.
But that's not all.
Exclusive to Wii, Capcom also confirmed that Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles also went platinum...well, almost. Despite being predicted to sell around 650,000 units, the on-rails shooter sold over 950,000 copies, breaking through all of the publisher's expectations. Capcom is also readying further support for Nintendo's little white box of tricks when it announced at the tail end of last year that it's working on Monster Hunter 3 for Wii.
The Monster Hunter series has continued to be successful for Capcom, with Monster Hunter Freedom 2 on PSP became the popular title on Sony's handheld in Japan last year, and second across all formats, selling 1.5 million units.
Anyhow, back to the financials.
During the first nine months of the 2007/08 fiscal year, which ran from April 1st 2007 to December 31st 2007, net sales in Capcom's Home Video Games sector rose by nearly a quarter from 25.01 billion Yen (£119.5 million) to 30.85 billion (£147.4 million). Operating income also saw the publisher in good stead, increasing year on year from 4.37 billion Yen (£20.9 million) to 6.04 billion Yen (£28.9 million), a staggering rise of 38.2%.
Hopefully the near-platinum status of Umbrella Chronicles will mean that Wii gamers will get their hands on another instalment in the future.
Anonymous
Date Added:Thu 13th Mar 2008 02:59
thay should bring RE0 to U.S
matter fact they should bring back RE 0,1,2,and 3 to the wii scence they had it them on GC. If RE 5 is big on 360/ps3,which it will. It will have to come out for the wii at some time.plus mos... [ Read full comment... ]
Chewjacka
Date Added:Fri 29th Feb 2008 09:02
MILLION!
Anonymous
Date Added:Thu 28th Feb 2008 15:23
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Anbesol
Date Added:Tue 16th Oct 2007 10:10
So I hear some really cool things about this version, I've played and beaten the cub... [ Read full comment... ]
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Date Added:Sun 9th Sep 2007 03:08