Capcom sets another milestone for its survival-horror masterpiece.
At the same time Capcom announced it would be publishing Wii Love Golf for Camelot, the granddaddy publisher also revealed that it has shipped out 750,000 copies of Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition to retailers worldwide. This is an impressive figure, considering that it's only been available for about three months.
What's more telling, however, is that it may be selling faster than the GameCube original. Six months after RE4 shipped on GameCube, Capcom reported North American sales at half a million. Sales from the other major gaming regions would have obviously put that figure higher at the time, perhaps as high as around 750k units. If that speculative sum was accurate, then the Wii version is selling twice as fast as the GameCube version, despite it being almost three years late to the game.
Was the GameCube in that bad of shape at the time? Or is the game really that good? If you've got an explanation for this phenomenon, we'd love to hear it in Talkback.
