Capcom celebrated a brand new Resident Evil Requiem gross sales milestone with a employees celebration attended by The Sport Awards producer Geoff Keighley.
As seen in media shared by director Koshi Nakanishi on his Instagram tales, archived by social media customers, the celebration included Leon and Grace-themed desserts, revealing that Requiem has now bought 7 million copies.
Keighley additionally appeared to host an “after-party bingo”, in accordance with Nakanishi. The Sport Awards host’s presence has, expectedly, sparked hypothesis that Capcom might be planning a reveal for June’s Summer time Sport Fest, which it frequently helps.
Resident Evil Requiem bought 5 million copies in lower than every week when it launched in February, in accordance with Capcom, and reached 6 million just a few weeks later, making it by far the sequence’ fastest-selling sport so far.
7 million gross sales in beneath two months continues the sport’s robust momentum. As famous by sequence historian Alex Aniel, the earlier RE sport to achieve this milestone the quickest was Resident Evil 4 (2023), which took 12 months and 1 week to achieve 7 million.
Capcom’s best-selling Resident Evil sport is 2019’s Resident Evil 2 remake with 16.8 million gross sales, adopted by Resident Evil 7 (16.4 million), Resident Evil Village (13.5 million), and 2023’s Resident Evil 4 (12.2 million).
Capcom’s video games normally have lengthy business tails and proceed promoting for years after their preliminary releases. Within the first 9 months of its present enterprise yr, Capcom has bought over 2 million models of RE4 and Village, and over a million models of RE7, RE2, and RE3.
Capcom just lately reiterated plans to launch extra content material for Requiem, stating: “Resident Evil Requiem is the newest installment within the Resident Evil sequence, which presents photorealistic visuals and a deep sense of immersion. Gamers can benefit from the elevated essence of the survival horror expertise by the interaction between intense worry and exhilarating motion, made doable by two protagonists.
“Going ahead, Capcom plans to implement a number of measures, reminiscent of ongoing help and extra sport content material, so gamers can proceed to benefit from the title longer.”
