Resident Evil Requiem is already an enormous hit for Capcom, because it reached 5 million gross sales in simply 5 days. The corporate says that it achieved this gross sales milestone sooner than its earlier mainline launch, Resident Evil Village, and it was faster than the latest remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4.
There have been already indicators that Requiem was off to a robust begin, as the sport reached a brand new collection document of over 344,000 concurrent gamers on Steam, and it has to this point been met with a positive reception from each critics and followers alike. This quantity was double that of Resident Evil 4 Remake (168,191) and triple that of Resident Evil Village (106,631), making Requiem the most important launch within the franchise’s historical past to this point.
Capcom says one of many keys to success right here was the concept to give attention to broad enchantment with out dropping the id of the sport, by way of the usage of a number of issue settings and the choice to modify between first-person and third-person views in real-time. This, in flip, allowed gamers to fine-tune the expertise to go well with their particular person tastes.
So how does Resident Evil Requiem stack as much as Capcom’s best hits, which the corporate refers to as “Platinum” titles? It nonetheless has a strategy to go earlier than it’s going to enter the Capcom top 10, however Resident Evil video games are likely to have lengthy gross sales legs. With optimistic word-of-mouth, its availability on main platforms, and an eventual low cost, it will not be shocking to see a number of extra million gross sales within the months and years to return. At the moment, the Resident Evil 2 remake is the best-selling recreation within the franchise with 16.80 million lifetime gross sales to this point since its 2019 launch.
Capcom Platinum Titles
- Monster Hunter: World — 22 million
- Monster Hunter: Rise — 18.20 million
- Resident Evil 2 (2019) — 16.80 million
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard — 16.40 million
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne — 15.90 million
- Resident Evil Village — 13.50 million
- Resident Evil 4 (2023) — 12.20 million
- Monster Hunter Wilds — 11 million
- Satan Could Cry 5 — 11 million
- Resident Evil 3 (2020) — 10.90 million
“The result’s a recreation that leans too arduous on previous successes and nostalgia, and so does not present its followers any new concepts,” Phil Hornshaw wrote in GameSpot’s Resident Evil Requiem evaluation. “However it is aware of its hits , and it performs them near-perfectly.”