Survival horror Resident Evil wouldn’t sell says Capcom

If you were holding out on Resident Evil 6 getting back to survival horror basics, you’re just holding out for disappointment – Capcom has pretty much confirmed that the series has left that all behind. Alone. Naked. In the dark.

Now it’s all about guns and explosions.

“Especially for the North American market, I think the series needs to head in that [action-oriented] direction,” Resident Evil producer Masachika Kawata told Gamasutra. “[Resident Evil’s primary games] need to be an extension of the changes made in Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5.

“RE4 started in that direction, and RE5 kept going in that direction. And I think that especially for the North American market, we need to keep going in that direction, and take that a step further. And that’s exactly one of the reasons that Revelations is the way it is.”

Because why? Because everybody else is doing it.

“Looking at the marketing data [for survival horror games]… the market is small, compared to the number of units Call of Duty and all those action games sell,” he said. “A survival horror Resident Evil doesn’t seem like it’d be able to sell those kind of numbers.”

This is where I was going to add a smug comment about Amnesia: The Dark Descent outselling Resident Evil 5, but it didn’t. It wasn’t even close.

Don’t blame Call of Duty, though, blame scaredy cats like Nic who can’t even play Dead Space. NIC RUINED IT FOR EVERYBODY.

I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY, NIC.