I admit it: I form of thought, provided that the unique Resident Evil 4 has been reissued extra occasions than the Bible and the Little Crimson E book mixed, that enthusiasm for its full-blown remake may need been at a low ebb. Nicely, reveals what I do know. Capcom simply introduced that the RE4 remake has topped 7 million gross sales just a little below a 12 months post-release.
Not solely that, however the Resident Evil sequence as an entire has offered over 154 million video games because it first emerged from a gross flesh chrysalis again in 1996, which suggests you might give a duplicate to all the inhabitants of Russia and nonetheless have virtually eight million left in reserve. Congratulations to Resident Evil on turning into the eighth largest nation on Earth.
Capcom attributes this success to “steady assist from the passionate fan base throughout the globe” and says it is the writer’s “flagship recreation sequence.” I suppose that is the form of factor it’s important to write in a press launch, but it surely’d be good if at some point a recreation firm swerved on us and attributed its success to the Mandate of Heaven or an industrial amount of psilocybin.
Anyway, these gross sales—each RE4’s and Resident Evil’s extra typically—aren’t damaged down by platform, however I would be very curious to see these numbers. We reside in a world the place now you can play the RE4 remake and RE: Village in your iPhone. Are folks actually making the most of that? Is that what Capcom wanted to push it over the 7 million mark after chalking up just a little over 6 million gross sales by the tip of 2023?
Alas, we do not know, however one factor is nearly sure: Extra RE remakes are coming. Final 12 months, Capcom was asking followers which recreation they wished remade subsequent. In any case, with RE4 out of the way in which, the one mainline video games left are the a lot much less well-loved RE5 and 6, except Capcom fancies re-remaking 1, so the corporate might be eager to know the place it ought to direct its efforts subsequent now that it now not has an apparent next-in-line recreation.
My hope is that it settles on Code Veronica, the nonetheless console-bound journey specializing in Claire and Chris Redfield: this was initially conceived of because the third mainline recreation within the sequence, earlier than turning into a Dreamcast side-entry. Capcom would port it to different consoles, but it surely was final seen on Xbox 360 and has by no means had a PC model. With a 12 months’s respiration room between us and RE4, I think about we’ll discover out what Capcom has in retailer sooner somewhat than later.
