About those estimations... that is exactly what they are. Nothing more than that, cause also Capcom doesn't know whether the public will buy their games or not. All they can do is compare it to sales data on comparable platforms/games and hope those will be a good fit for sales patterns of future games. Fact is though that a similair game hasn't been released yet on Wii and it is yet to see how popular such a title will be among Wii owners. Btw, if VGcharts numbers for RE 4 Wii are supported by the next NPD numbers then it seems like that title will sell around 150k units in its first month and Capcom's estimation for RE 4 Wii might already be met worldwide by then. So if those numbers show Capcom underestimated RE 4 sales, isn't it likely that they underestimated sales for Umbrella Chronicals as well? Personally I think the success of RE 4 will be far more telling about the success of Umbrella Chronicals than some sales estimation from Capcom on a title they haven't even set a release date for.
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Btw, if VGcharts numbers for RE 4 Wii are supported by the next NPD numbers then it seems like that title will sell around 150k units in its first month and Capcom's estimation for RE 4 Wii might already be met worldwide by then. So if those numbers show Capcom underestimated RE 4 sales, isn't it likely that they underestimated sales for Umbrella Chronicals as well?
Personally I think the success of RE 4 will be far more telling about the success of Umbrella Chronicals than some sales estimation from Capcom on a title they haven't even set a release date for.