Antoine Seux of Capcom France has said that early Wii sales of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles are below what was expected from the latest title in the series.
Speaking to European website GameKult (via Nintendo Everything’s Google translation) Seux explained that figures “are below what we hoped,” adding, “ After three weeks we are a total of 16,000 units sold. One feels that there is a problem very clear on this style of game on the Wii, where gamers have obviously moved on.”
Touching upon the success Capcom saw with its release of Resident Evil 4 on Wii, Seux continued, “Resident Evil 4 on Wii had worked well, but it was released in June 2007, when the market had nothing to do! This year the Wii was very difficult with an oversupply, and a gamer market that has radically changed.”
Sega studio director Constantine Hantzopoulos recently discussed the poor performance of the company’s Mature rated Wii games and said that Sega is now less likely to release titles similar to MadWorld and House Of The Dead: Overkill on the platform.