14 DAY TRIAL // Developer and publisher Capcom has announced that, although there are more than seven months until the launch of Resident Evil 6, the game is already doing better when it comes to pre-orders than any other video game in the franchise.
Christian Svensson, who is a senior vice president at Capcom, told Game Informer that,”The pre-orders for Resident Evil 6 are off to a fantastic start. The best start a Resident Evil game has ever had.
“We’re saying, ‘Get the hell out of the way.’ We’re a big game. We’re letting you know we’re coming.”
The executive believes that other games should take into account the launch date for Resident Evil 6 and move their own launch dates around in order to give it the space it needs.
Svensson also addressed the issue of the typo that affected the launch of Resident Evil: Revelations, saying, “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. It’s embarrassing. I can’t really sugarcoat it.”
The publisher has begun a quality assurance process, involving outside companies, which is designed to ensure that errors like the Resident Evil: Revelations will never happen again.
Resident Evil 6 is said to be the biggest and most ambitious video game ever created by Capcom, and it will kick off with a scene where Leon Kennedy will need to face a bioterror-affected President of the United States.
Resident Evil 6 will be launched on November 20 in the United States on the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360, and PC gamers will get a version of the game at a later date.