Resident Evil Requiem was already the fastest-selling game in the series, so for 7 million copies sold in under 2 months, Capcom had to break out the cake
Resident Evil Requiem has hit a new sales milestone, with seven million units sold within the game’s first two months.
Resident Evil Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi posted an image to his Instagram story (spotted by TwistedVoxel) featuring two cakes. One reads “Grace Congratulation on 7 million,” with a cookie version of Grace Ashcroft sitting atop it, while the other features a Leon Kennedy cookie and is in the style of Resident Evil 2’s iconic banner, saying “Welcome to 7m Leon” (and they didn’t even make the spelling mistake that the RPD officers did, either).
Capcom hasn’t released an official announcement about the milestone yet, but after announcing that Resident Evil Requiem had sold five million copies within the first week, it was seemingly already the fastest-selling Resident Evil title of all time, beating 2023’s Resident Evil 4 remake, which took about two days to sell three million copies. Capcom then outright confirmed this when Requiem hit the six million mark just over two weeks after launching.
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Earlier this week, industry analyst Mat Piscatella also noted that it’s already one of the top five selling games in the series in terms of “all-time US dollar sales,” and that’s not to mention that it became the US’s best-selling game of the year in just a day.
If anything, this is proof that Capcom’s strategy of simply releasing good games works. Resident Evil has been on a hot streak since Resident Evil 7 Biohazard almost a decade ago, and with the extremely well received Village, two all-time great remakes, and the underrated Resident Evil 3 remake, fans are all-in on the series.
But we’ve seen the inverse from Capcom too. Monster Hunter World and Rise’s love is also what propelled Monster Hunter Wilds to sell eight million copies in three days last year, becoming the company’s fastest-selling game ever, but it didn’t keep its momentum due to its performance issues, with sales stalling as a result.
You can check out our Resident Evil Requiem review if you’re yet to play the horror game yourself, or our guide to Resident Evil Requiem’s safe codes to help you through it.
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