This is a story the average tendie wouldn't tell you

RE4 sold horribly on the Gamecube and it was about to be written off as a total loss for Capcom and they were going to have to file for bankruptcy. Projected sales were in the toilet so they hastily announced the PS2 version before it launched and the Gamecube version ended up selling like dog milk as expected of an M rated title on the purple lunchbox. The PS2 version ended up being insanely profitable and saved the company.

Yet despite those facts, GroidCubers act like RE4 was a defining game for the system (which nearly destroyed Capcom if they stuck to Shinji's insane platform exclusive nonsense) and not one of the many defining games for the better selling competitor

>>715698248 (OP)
Don't care, played it on PC 15 years after release.

OP I was going to come in here and post the Player's Choice edition as a gotcha but
"The Player's Choice line was introduced for GameCube titles in January 2003.[3] However, the sales barrier for games was decreased from 1 million, down to 450,000 by June 2003[4] and eventually only 250,000"

It was still better on the 'cube, if you played the PS2 version you got the inferior product.

>>715698527
>>BRO DEY GOT DA INFERIOR VERSION
>Nightfire, 2002 (PS2 3.33m, XB 0.82m, GC 0.78m) - total 4.93 million

PS2 enjoyers were too busy having sex to notice.

>>715698248 (OP)
>which nearly destroyed Capcom if they stuck to Shinji's insane platform exclusive nonsense
i still don't get why people blamed capcom for losing mikami over this

>>715698248 (OP)
>The PS2 version ended up being insanely profitable and saved the company.
It's a nice piece of fanfiction, but the PS2 port still sold less than half as many copies as RE2.

>>715698797
What the fuck is your point even if I agree that RE2 mogs RE4? I hate what RE4 did to the franchise but it still needed to sell copies.

>>715699001
>What the fuck is your point even if I agree that RE2 mogs RE4?
That it wasn't a runaway financial success the instant it arrived (downgraded to shit of course) on the povertystation 2.

>>715699001
1, 3, 4, and 5 are all better than 2

>>715699061
>That it wasn't a runaway financial success

Compared to the Gaycube version it was.

>>715699147
The only sources on PS2 and GCN sales say it was 2.3 and 1.6 million respectively. The game was a critical success, but not a financial one when considering the development time.

>>715698797
RE2 was one of THE PS1 games if you didn't want to play an RPG. RE4 is fantastic but the PS2 library is alot more varied and the quality for big named studios is way up.

>>715699336
But that's why they kept porting it.

I'm not denying 4fags live in an alternate reality, because they also pretend TPSes like Max Payne 1 and 2 don't exist either. (4's shitty awkward style can still work for action games as proven by 5 and Dead Space 1 when you clean up the controls)

>>715699465
RE4 is better in every way than Max Payne. Euroslop game design is shit.

>>715698248 (OP)
You are mentally retarded if you play the PS2 version or think it's better

Not only is the gameplay worse because it has way fewer enemies, they raped the graphics. It's a horror game and not any but one specifically loved for its setting and love for detail

And EVEN if it were the superior port, it came out later so everyone who isn't poor already played the GC version (which is superior)

>>715698248 (OP)
I honestly don't think I knew anyone with a Gamecube aside from my little cousins ten years after release.

>>715699581

>>715699581
op is talking about sales for some reason, as if he owned sony stocks back then and as if we are on /biz/ here

>>715699581
ps2 is better

>>715699581
See: >>715698627

I love the alternate realities groidcubers work themselves into.

>>715699704
More people played it on the PS2 back then. End of.

>>715699704
OP is the same retard who makes all the "GameCube and N64 bad" threads because his life is a mess

>>715698248 (OP)
kill yourself spamming faggot

>>715699758
>More people played it on the PS2 back then. End of.
Less than a million people difference.

>>715699758
>appeal to poularity
more people are eatnig mcdonald's than sushi right now, why the fuck would i care? are you that insecure about the actual quality of your favorite console?

this is what all your great ps1 and ps2 success led to, shutting down the sotc studio and making this:

>>715699853
>Forgetting rentals

Sorry kiddo, I know you weren't alive back then, but you lost.

>>715699758
I guess Minecraft and Mario Kart 8 are the best games ever.............. It is settled

Hot take but the Wii version is better than both.

>>715699914
I forgot you PS2 browns couldn't afford games.

>>715699652
holy shit I always thought it's just gimped graphics

>>715699073
>1, 3, 4, and 5 are all better than 2
You always see the most disgusting shittaste takes in Snoy threads. 2 is just an upgrade to 1 in every area other than your subjective preferences, 3 is an arcade shooter with no atmosphere and 4 and 5 might as well not even be the same genre as 2. Why even pretend to be a RE fan when you shit on 2 like that and probably weren't even alive.

>>715699465
Max Lame

Why do jannies allow these pointless blatant console war flamewar threads? Is every janny a Playstation and Sega baby now?

>>715700224
Going to complain about it for another 20 years?