Resident Evil 4 remake is fastest-selling game in the series ‘by far’ but what’s next?-Adam Starkey-Entertainment – Metro

It’s certainly time for bingo (Capcom)

Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake has surpassed nine million copies sold, as it looks to become the best-selling entry in the series.

After hitting eight million copies sold in October last year, Capcom’s excellent Resident Evil 4 remake has already passed another sales milestone.

As confirmed by Capcom this week, the remake has now sold over nine million copies. That means it sold one million copies within the past three months, which is impressive for a title that came out in March 2023.

When compared with the sales of other Resident Evil games in their eighth quarter, Resident Evil 4 remake is actually top of the list – making it the fastest-selling entry in the series yet.

Games industry business development manager Alex Aniel, who is the author of Itchy, Tasty: An Unofficial History Of Resident Evil, crunched the numbers in a post on X where he described Resident Evil 4 remake as the fastest-selling entry ‘by far’.

According to Aniel, Resident Evil 4 remake’s one million sales during its eighth quarter are higher than Resident Evil Village (500,000), Resident Evil 7 (400,000), and both Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 2 remakes (300,000 each) during the same period.

With over nine million sales, Resident Evil 4 remake is also outpacing Resident Evil Village as the fastest-selling entry ever, which had sold 7.9 million in total during the same timeframe.

While these updated figures are not yet reflected on Capcom’s official list of its best-selling games, this pace suggests Resident Evil 4 remake has a good chance of eventually becoming the best-selling title in the series.

As of September 2024, Resident Evil 2 remake holds that accolade with over 14.5 million units sold since January 2019, followed by Resident Evil 7 at 14 million. If Resident Evil 4 remake doesn’t drop the pace too much, it should surpass both of them this year or next.

What is the next Resident Evil remake?

Capcom has confirmed it is working on more Resident Evil remakes, but nothing has been announced about what title they will tackle next.

There is, however, good evidence to suggest Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Resident Evil Zero are next in the pipeline. In May 2024, reliable insider Dusk Golem claimed these were both in development, which has been corroborated by both IGN and VGC’s Andy Robinson.

‘I’ve talked to many others behind the scenes about this at this point, it’s something I heard over a year ago, think it was going to get out whether I was the one to say it or not, and that’s about it,’ Dusk Golem wrote on X.

The same insider has since suggested these remakes will not be as ‘ambitious’ as Resident Evil 4, describing the latter as the ‘crown jewel’ for Capcom which proved to be ‘the most challenging one to tackle in scale, scope, [and] expectation’.

‘Resident Evil Zero and Code: Veronica were picked for a number of reasons,’ they wrote on Discord (via Wccftech). ‘But I do believe a big one is they’re good titles to ‘improve’ from their originals that allow for more horror-focused design up the alley of Resident Evil 2, which was a big success, and continue the remake train, which has been very successful for them.’

This suggests we’ll have a long while to wait for any potential remake of Resident Evil 5, along with the rumoured revamp of the original.

Capcom’s next Resident Evil game, however, is assumed to be Resident Evil 9, which was officially announced in July last year. Nothing has been said about it since though and there’s little clue as to what it will be like, with the only rumour so far suggesting it may be open world.

Given the amount of information that has leaked out about other Resident Evil games though, we’ll likely learn more before the official unveiling… whenever that is.

There’s a strong thirst for remakes (Capcom)

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