Gamezine: First day sales of Resident Evil 5 are in from Japan. The game sold four times as much on the PlayStation 3. According to Ameblo.jp Resident Evil 5 sold 278,000 on its first day in Japan. What's more incredible is that Resident Evil 5 has beaten launch day sales of Resident Evil 4. The game sold 117,000 copies on the Gamecube in January 2005 and 145,000 copies on the PlayStation 2 in December 2005.
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The official japanese site alive and raving. Features screenshots, wallpapers and both the E3 and Media Summit trailers.
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TalkPlayStation.com writes:"From what we've seen in the trailers and videos from E3, you can't shoot while running in Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 4 has this same problem and quite a lot of people complained about it. The stop and shoot mechanic is back. We contacted Capcom regarding this issue and they sent a quick response back"
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Full year revenues for Capcom were ¥83 billion, up 11 percent from the previous year's nearly ¥74.5 billion. Net income also saw an uptick, as the publisher wound up netting ¥7.8 billion for the year, up 33 percent from the prior year's ¥5.9 billion.
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