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RE2's popularity was nuts so why not try to get a bit more pocket change from the N64 crowd I'm guessing. RE1 was skipped over for maybe because it wasn't considered as much as a must have (maybe it was one of those final fantasy kind of things where like, final fantasies 2, 3, and then 5 were skipped over because in 2 and 3's case it would have taken too much time to localize and by the time they were ready gamers are more focused on the next generation console, and in 5's case its another one of those localization takes so long why not just put our efforts to the sequel we are really throwing our weight at production-wise. RE1 on the nintendo 64 could have simply just been in that final fantasy 5 type of situation). RE2 was talked about everywhere for it's time and was so popular it helped kicked off resident evil movies.

I always kind of wondered why RE2 never got a sega saturn port. Like the saturn definitely got thrashed everywhere outside of japan, while the nintendo 64 kind of flopped in japan and did not do too crazy in europe (north america seemed to be the main region that carried the N64).....seems like they could have got more money out of that by also catering to japan's saturn crowd.