Resident Evil

Resident Evil is a series of video games, novels, comics and films developed by Capcom and created by a japanese man called Shinji Mikami. As of may 2009, the series has sold over 40 million games.

Production

The first game of the series, titled Resident Evil was originally released in 1996 on the Sony Playstation. This was one of the first games that started off the trend of "survival horror" and has been called "one of the most important games of all time" since then, over 20 games have been released ranging in platforms from Playstation to mobile phones.

Resident Evil 4 was developed by Capcom Production studio 4 and used several publishers including Capcom, Ubisoft, Nintendo, THQ and Red Ant Enterprises. The game was originally released on january 11 in 2005. The game was originally going to be exclusive to the Nintendo Game Cube however, a Playstation 2 version was announced and released before the Game Cube version was even released. soon after, the game was then released on other platforms in the PC and Wii.

the first attempt at developing Resident evil 4, was origianlly in 1998 after Resident evil 2 was released. the production company tested out several different prototype versions of the game, however these proved to be to much of a radical change from the already established Resident Evil formula and the survival horror genre. so rather than abandoning the project entirely, the production company descided to change the game slightly and this then became Devil May Cry.

the development for Resident Evil 4 then started in 2001.

Marketing

marketing for resident evil 5 was much different to any of the other games in the series due to the fact that the technology available has been allot more available. trailers where released on the Xbox 360 in july of 2007. in march of 2008 dvd footage was realesed containing a preview of the game. a demo was released in 2009 for playstation 3 and xbox 360 which allowed the player to play part of a level from the game. this demo was downloaded over 4 million times wolrdwideduring the time that it was released on the playstaion store and the xbox live services with more than 1.8 million dowloads within the first three days.

distribution

the game was available for download aswell as being a physical copy. Resident Evil 5 quickly became the fastest selling game in the franchise, selling over 5.3 million copies of the game worldwide and easily making it the best selling resident evil game ever. in france, the game sold 110,555 copies of the game during the first week of it's release, which was half of the stock in the country.