Resident Evil 7: Biohazard looks poised to be a commercial success as well as a critical one. Capcom has announced today that the title has shipped 2.5 million copies for launch, which is a decent figure even if it is less than the rotter Resident Evil 6 managed. We should point out that this number reflects the sum of units that Capcom has sold to stores, not necessarily the amount that it has sold to consumers.
Still, given the popularity of the sequel at this moment in time, we'd be shocked if that number didn't rise and rise. The publisher suggested that it wants to hit the four million units milestone by the end of its fiscal year on 31st March, which seems just about attainable – especially if the DLC is decent and keeps interest in the product high.
Elsewhere, the organisation announced that the game's demo has exceeded over 7.15 million downloads, which is a record for the series. It's all positive news for the franchise as a whole, which is getting a new liveaction movie in the United States today, followed by a CGI flick named Resident Evil: Vendetta in May.
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Congrats Capcom!!! Now can you dust off Onimusha and Dino Crisis for us....?
Yay!
Makes sense that it's less than 6, the game was a massive letdown for many so people are less willing to throw money at 7 right away.
I would have purchased if I could afford it this month, mainly for the VR. Resi 6 though, damn that still hurts.
@meltendo huge support for both of these suggestions. Capcom - make it happen!
Capcom take a huge risk going back to horror again, a more action-oriented resident evil 4-6 sold more compared to it's horror-oriented predecessor (1-3). I want to buy it day 1 but my backlog is still growing with yakuza 0 and gravity rush 2
Considering how good the resident evil 7 vr mode is and seeing first-person resident evil 1 remake mods on pc make me think maybe capcom should add vr mode to resident evil 0 & 1 remake and upcoming resident evil 2 remake.
The re1 remake 1st person mods video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjX6RFbicv0
Certainly a promising start, and sales will improve once word of mouth gets around.
Sales are probably actually so much higher due to VR. most people I know with VR Buy digital so switching games aint such a pain in the butt
Please bring back Dino Crisis. I mean if they mixed the atmosphere of 1 with the variety of 2 and gave it a modern overhaul it would be amazing
RE7VR is easily and by far the scariest horror experience I've ever had.
@meltendo
Dino crisis in psvr, now that would be a thing.
Also Onimishu is well late for a.... Well anything, an remaster would suit me, great games that seemed to disappear. Altho 3 did get a bit silly.
Let's see how well it does compared to Resi Evil 5 and 6.
Which are Capcom' s best selling titles ever with 7,1 and 6,6 million units sold respectively.
While Street Fighter II sold 6,3 million units.
( numbers taken directly from capcoms site http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/finance/million.html)
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