Capcom confirms that the reboot of the saga, the story of Ethan and the Baker family, is the best-selling installment of Resident Evil, and being a survival horror.
Ethan Winters and the Baker family have just gone down in history. Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 7 is already the best-selling game in the series, with 7.9 million units sold. The title becomes the most successful installment of the series, thus beating Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6, who held the crown practically tied, with 7.7 and 7.6 million respectively. However, Capcom clarifies that these numbers do not take into account remasters, Gold versions and the like. With them Resident Evil 4 (is there a game that has been released on more platforms?), RE 5 and RE 6 continue to lead.
Conceived as a kind of “return to the origins”, the numbers of RE 7 will relieve more than one by showing that there is also a market for survival horror, that the future of the saga is not only for action video games. The same happens with Resident Evil 2 Remake, which becomes the fourth best-selling game in the franchise after just over a year and a half on sale, presenting its bid to take the first place in the not too distant future. This is the classification after its last update:
Counting only the original version
Between all versions
The unforgettable Baker family.
The future: Resident Evil 8 and RE 4 Remake?
The saga is sweet and Capcom is aware of it. At the beginning of the year we got Resident Evil 3 Remake; months later, all kinds of rumors and clues about a Resident Evil 4 remake exploded; and during the presentation of PlayStation 5 the next numbered installment, Resident Evil 8: Village, was announced. The latter will be exclusive to the new generation (PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X), has been in development for more than three years and will be launched in 2021. It promises to close all the story arcs that RE 7 left in the air, and more with that ending . It will be set in an Eastern European town, there will be witches and werewolves, it will have no load time and it will show the “darkest” Chris Redfield. For all that, long live Resident Evil.
Resident Evil 8 will pick up the story of RE 7 on PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X in 2021.
