Resident Evil is Capcom’s best-selling franchise. Its latest title continues the pattern, transport 5 million models in just some months.
It has taken simply 4 months for the Resident Evil 4 remake to succeed in the milestone.
Capcom launched the Resident Evil 4 remake final March, and fewer than half a 12 months later, the best-selling title, has already offered greater than 5 million copies. This can be a actually massive achievement because it took 2021’s Resident Evil Village virtually six months to ship the identical variety of copies.
“Gross sales of Resident Evil 4 grew following a extremely optimistic reception from clients in addition to with the discharge of The Mercenaries, free further downloadable content material, driving worldwide gross sales over 5 million models,” the press launch reads.
The one different title within the collection to hit the milestone quicker than the Resident Evil 4 remake is Resident Evil 5, which got here out in 2009 and offered shut to five million copies in a month and surpassed the 5-million mark inside three months.
The Resident Evil 4 remake had a unbelievable begin, promoting over three million copies in simply the primary two days. The sport shipped 4 million models within the first two weeks. Issues did considerably decelerate afterward however the title nonetheless managed to succeed in the milestone in 4 months.
Capcom plans to roll out extra content material for Resident Evil 4. The studio has shared that VR mode is coming to Resident Evil 4.
“Capcom seems to proceed increasing gross sales with the upcoming launch of Resident Evil 4 VR Mode, free downloadable content material suitable with PlayStation VR2,” Capcom provides.
There have been rumors that the studio is planning to introduce Resident Evil 4’s Separate Methods DLC to the remake. The downloadable content material wasn’t a part of the preliminary GameCube launch however was added in a while to different variations of the sport. The DLC stars Ada Wong and provides gamers a brand new perspective on the occasions of Resident Evil 4.
Dataminers found references to “The One other Order” (the Japanese title for Separate Methods) within the recreation recordsdata.
Outstanding gaming insider Nightfall Golem claimed that the Separate Methods DLC is coming down the road. “It’ll be longer and extra fleshed out than the unique Separate Methods,” the insider mentioned.
Capcom is constant work on the Resident Evil franchise. The studio has not dominated out the potential of remaking non-numbered Resident Evil video games. Capcom revealed that it was “finishing up discussions concerning the longer term growth of this collection so it may be loved by a large viewers.”
The Resident Evil 4 remake is accessible on PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Collection X/S.