Capcom has celebrated Resident Evil Requiem passing one other gross sales milestone, and offered its director with two big muffins to mark the event.
Resident Evil Requiem has now offered greater than 7 million copies since its launch final month. That is up by 1,000,000 on our final official tally, confirmed in mid-April.
Requiem has been breaking gross sales information for the franchise since its launch, when it shifted a surprising 5 million copies in simply 5 days — making it the fastest-selling Resident Evil sport in the entire franchise.
Now, director Koshi Nakanishi has revealed Requiem’s newest gross sales achievement through a narrative on his Instagram, which reveals workers members celebrating alongside two towering Resident Evil Requiem-themed muffins. A Leon cake options black icing, blueberries and raspberries, alongside what seems to be to be a biscuit-based cake topper formed like Leon wielding a pistol. An additional ornament reveals the star’s trusty hatchet.
A second cake options Leon’s co-protagonist Grace Ashcroft. This options white frosting, and a ornament exhibiting what seems to be to be a zombie’s hand reaching out of the cake’s second tier. “Welcome to 7m Leon! ” reads the writing on one cake. “Grace Congratulations on 7 million!” reads the opposite.
Resident Evil Reqiuem Director Koshi Nakanishi celebrated Resident Evil Requiem hitting 7 million models with a celebration and cake.
He posted this on his private Instagram. pic.twitter.com/I4RtRuYrW7
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Fortunately, Resident Evil Requiem followers nonetheless have loads extra to come back from the sport, together with subsequent month’s mysterious content material replace that gamers anticipate will add a brand new model of the franchise’s The Mercenaries mode — particularly after datamine leak revealed tense new music. Following that, a full-blown story DLC can also be within the works, although sounds additional off.
Capcom’s gross sales success with Resident Evil Requiem is effectively deserved — it’s a unbelievable sport, and one we right here at IGN bestowed with a 9/10 rating, saying that it “efficiently splices two separate strains of survival horror collectively into the one extremely infectious new mutation.”
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