Last month, 90,000 Nintendo 3DS copies of Resident Evil: Revelaitons shipped out. No, that’s not a typo, but the misprint on the cover was a real mistake – it should of course be Resident Evil: Revelations.

“It’s embarrassing. I can’t really sugar-coat it,” Capcom US boss, Christian Svensson, told Game Informer.

“I can’t even tell you how many people looked at that package and approved it. Nintendo of America, Nintendo Japan, ESRB, I don’t know how many people internally, and our guys in Japan. I can’t come up with an excuse for it. It just happened. We’re not happy about it.”

On the brighter side, those could be collectors’ items in twenty or thirty years. Or maybe not – but for the moment, they’re the new, uhhhh… special editions! Yes, that’s it, special editions.

“There are only about 90,000 units that have the [Revelaitons] misprint,” said Svensson. “If you’ve got it and it’s shrink-wrapped, that’s a new special edition, that’s our new strategy.”

Resident Evil: Revelaitons

It’s not the first time Capcom’s typing pool has turned out mistakes like this one. Apparently the Asura’s Wrather boxart featured “near-impossible chanllenges”, and a trailer for Steel Battalion named the company as “Capcpom”.

Next up, Capcom is hiring a new copy editor.

Source: Game Informer, Eurogamer

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