Following its current monetary report, Capcom has up to date its checklist of ‘Platinum Titles’, or fairly, the video games which have bought over 1,000,000 copies (thanks, Eurogamer).
As such, Resident Evil 2 (the remake, not the unique) is now the best-selling entry in all the Resident Evil franchise, reaching an extremely spectacular 12.6 million models.
And earlier than you say something, sure, it is on the Swap. It is a Cloud Model, thoughts you, so we won’t think about that this may have contributed massively in the direction of the sport’s present lifetime gross sales, however nonetheless. It nearly beats Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, which managed 12.4 million models bought. Each video games arrived on the Swap as Cloud variations on the tail finish of 2022.
Taking a look at different key titles within the franchise, Resident Evil 5 and 6 are at present sitting at 8.8 million models every, whereas Resident Evil Village is snapping at their heels at 8.3 hundreds of thousands models. Amusingly, the unique launch of Resident Evil 4 on GameCube is sitting at quantity 71 within the itemizing with simply 1.6 million models bought. Clearly the sport went on to promote many extra on different platforms, however simply think about a world the place it remained unique to GameCube… Yikes.