Resident Evil Village

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Resident Evil Village launched just under a month ago to mostly critical acclaim. Within the first iv days, Capcom appear that the game had already cleared three million units shipped, making it the third fastest-selling game in the franchise's history. While things have, understandably, cooled down over the past few weeks, Capcom appear that the game has shipped an additional i one thousand thousand units, bringing the full north of four meg globally.

The four million number includes digital sales and shows that the game continues to do well even later its initial release window. It also ways Resident Evil Village has already surpassed both the original Resident Evil 3 and the remake, putting it firmly in the top x best-selling games in the serial. If it continues at its current pace, information technology's non crazy to imagine Resident Evil Village potentially moving past the original Resident Evil 2 and challenging the RE2 Remake for a acme-five spot.

Now, it nonetheless has quite a path to get to that bespeak. Resident Evil ii originally sold half-dozen.1 million copies, while Resident Evil 2 Remake cleared 8 million. Those numbers are nevertheless far off, but nosotros aren't even a total calendar month out from Resident Evil Hamlet'due south release, and it's already halfway in that location. With proficient word of mouth and strong post-launch support, it's certainly a possibility to meet Village make its way high upwardly the franchise sales nautical chart.

Speaking of postal service-launch back up, that could really plow those numbers upwards considering Resident Evil Village included the fan-favorite Mercenaries mode. If Capcom continues to build that out with further DLC releases, it should give players fifty-fifty more of a reason to hop into Resident Evil's form of B-movie horror. Either fashion, fans should look plenty of reasons to pick up Village over the coming months if Resident Evil 7's release schedule is anything to go by.