Resident Evil 7 Sell In Exceeds 2.5 Million Worldwide; Franchise Hits 75 Million Units Worldwide

"Resident Evil 7 was a risk as it moved away once again from the formula it was used to, like when Resident Evil 4 moved away from survival horror and turned into the action series that lasted for another 10 years. It sounds like the risk has paid off as the sell in numbers for Resident Evil 7 has already exceeded 2.5 million worldwide."

[christocolus]

Congrats to Capcom. The game is amazing. The atmosphere is spot on and the game is very intense. Great job. Been having a blast.

[TheCommentator]

Wow, that's some massive sales! That's what happens when Capcom, in spite of my earlier impressions, actually does listen to its fans.

Glad to hear you're enjoying it, and I'm going to be trying it fairly soon too!

[IamTylerDurden1]

Playing RE7 on PSVR is incredible and terrifying, Capcom deserves to be successful on this one.

[UltraNova]

PSVR is still out of stock here where I live...meanwhile I've been holding off buying it because I want to experience only in VR...god damn it 😠😠😠

[MyDietEqualsGames]

I agree, man. Here here.

[KickSpinFilter]

I just started to see it in stock again last week, perhaps the shortage spell is ending?
(Boston MA, US)

[TGGJustin]

2.5 million shipped is a good start but it's down a lot from the over 4 million shipped first week for RE5 and RE6. I'm guessing out of those 2.5 million shipped they have probably sold half of them.

[Rimeskeem]

The game SOLD 2.5 million and they expect to SHIP 4 million units by March 31st.

Unless I read that wrong

I see

[TGGJustin]

You read it wrong. The term "Sell in" is used to refer to shipped numbers. When they say "sell through" it means sold to consumers. They shipped 2.5 million not sold.

[Kurdishcurse]

capcom projected re7 to sell 4 million period...id say its much more than successful.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Will you also have to factor that I'm doubtful that Resident Evil 7 came even near the cost of Resident Evil 5 or 6.

You're not going to know how profitable this was for this company if you also don't know how much it cost them to produce this game.

I just do not believe that this game cost more money than Resident Evil 5 or 6 for god sakes Resident Evil 6 had a Staff of upwards to 600....

[IndominusRex]

Pretty sure the last gen user base was much higher when those games came out...

[IamTylerDurden1]

I would assume RE7 was cheaper to make and it should have more staying power than RE6 which was not rated as a very good game.

[constantine_man]

The game had a much lower marketing and development budget. This game was an experiment to see where they should take Resident Evil. I'm sure Capcom is very happy with the numbers they're seeing.

[gangsta_red]

Just got this game from Gamefly, it's going to be a good weekend.

[PhoenixUp]

While Resident Evil continues to thrive and prosper, its longtime rival Silent Hill festers and dies in pachinko

[ShaunCameron]

Pretty much. Even on its worst day, RE still outperforms the S/H competition.

[sdcard4gb]

That is mostly because Konami are fucking idiots...

[sdcard4gb]

The only thing that prospers is the genre of First-Person horror games. If it was only Resident Evil that prospered we would've seen the actual traditional RE.

[IamTylerDurden1]

There are plenty of unsuccessful first person horror games as well. Capcom developed a fantastic game, it's silly to try and somehow discredit them bc they went first person. The game was developed for VR from the ground up, obviously that helped influence their decision to go first person.

[PhoenixUp]

@ sd

There are still plenty of successful third person horror games nowadays

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

I'd have to disagree on that. You name me one third person horror for this generation and and Ill name several first person horrors to make up for that. There's barely any on modern consoles let alone PC and none play as traditional survival horror.

[sdcard4gb]

Yeah ? Name at least 5. I am genuinely interested. *prepares a notebook*
What 3rd person horror games there were since The Evil Within ?

[PhoenixUp]

@ Kyosuke

Why would the amount of first person horror games negate the third person ones? I'm certain you could name a lot, but that doesn't make third person horror games irrelevant.

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

What I am saying is that we need more third person survival horror and horror RPG's made from the ground up to use modern technology. I feel that my favourite genre is getting to saturated by a plethora of first person games and seeing that horror is never really looked as a highly profit avenue, releases for them (especially new IPS) are extremely far in between.

[PhoenixUp]

Horror RPG? That's a strange subsection of games, but plenty of them still exist.

There are still plenty of third person horror games still being released

[MyDietEqualsGames]

What a dick. I fucking love silent hill. You all make me want to drink into a sleepy stupor.... too late.

[Lonnie18]

I wonder how many of those sells were on playstation versus xbox?

[DragonDDark]

Probably more on PlayStation 4 cause of the marketing.

[DEEBO]

Almost but VR is the game changer here and it sets it's self away from the Xbox version but the next generation Xbox will be able to play it in VR.

[-Foxtrot]

If they turn the RE2 Remake into a first person game I swear to god

[_-EDMIX-_]

???

Based on the Resident Evil remaster in the Resident Evil 0 remaster what indication has ever given to you that Resident Evil 2 remake was going to be in first person?

I want you to consider this , did the remasters of multiple Resident Evils go into 3rd person over the shoulder after Resident Evil 4?

So why would you assume the remake of Resident Evil 2 will be in first person?

Buddy... I think you are confusing an overall exaggerating the Resident Evil series move to first person.

I do not believe this means every single Resident Evil regardless of remake or remaster is going to be in first person it might simply mean from Resident Evil 7 forward.

I'm sorry but I have not known this company to do something like that especially if you consider the numerous remasters that have come from this company.

[StormLegend]

One is a remaster and the other is a "remake" But I doubt it'll be FP

[_-EDMIX-_]

@Trav- yes, but my point was that the opportunity was there for them to change perspectives many times.

I agree, I don't see it being fps.

[sdcard4gb]

The entire industry's shift towards First-Person horror kinda gives the idea of RE2 remake being in First-Person, so you gotta excuse the guy.

I am personally bored to fucking agony with First-Person games, I grew to hate them with passion to match during last 7 years of almost constant feeding.
Oh, you didn't notice that ?

[_-EDMIX-_]

@sd- except if you knew anything about the Resident Evil series you would actually know that this is not the first time to Series has been in first person.

Also know I don't really care about your personal bias towards first person games the reality is first person is not a genre

what a developer does with a first person game is completely up to them.

The way I see it if the game was bad it was always going to be bad in first-person or third-person regardless of the perspective I'm sorry but it's probably the dumbest most naive thing I've ever heard to believe the perspective change of a game is going to determine its overall outcome in regards to Quality or even being fun.

Several Resident Evils were either remade or remastered after Resident Evil 4 that did not suddenly take over all of its gameplay Concepts.

I don't see Resident Evil 2 remake being in first person simply because the previous remakes and remasters of the Resident Evil series did not alter those specific things.

Resident Evil 2 is likely going to be an omage to the original game which is going to mean it's going to be extremely unlikely that it's going to be in first person if anything they're going to have an option to change all the perspectives.

You you expressing that you have some sort of personal bias is not really helping your argument it just makes it sound extremely personal and emotional

Smh.

I don't judge games based on their perspectives simply because a good game of high-quality could be found anywhere from any perspective.

[UCForce]

"Sigh"

Edit : Do you guys remember Resident Evil 4 ?

[sdcard4gb]

You'll do nothing. You'll suck it up and be a good boy.
I hate First-Person horror games to my very core, but don't go "I swear to god" - you'll do nothing. You are just a consumer, a drop in the ocean.

[DeadlyOreo]

Wow.

[UCForce]

Way too negative then you become emo.

[on_line_forever]

first person view is the worse thing that happen to gaming world

the companies is Misers and lazy to bring someone to capture his shape and movement to make the character and his movement appear in 3rd person view

they just bring to us stupid camera moving around and shooting guns

[gantarat]

We already have RE2 in FPS Views it's call "The Darkside Chronicles"

[DEEBO]

it deserves it.
And this is PSVR AAA VR game even if it's 3rd party.
Good job Capcom!

[theshredded]

Game's exploding on social media!

[Zarock]

Such a great game loved It start to finish. Even though It was an FPS It still held on to It's roots.

[sdcard4gb]

You bought it ?
Now, prepare to eat this kind of perspective for the rest of your life. Good boy. Hope you are happy.

[DeadlyOreo]

Is no one allowed an opinion but yourself? Come on now.

[Zarock]

Resident Evil 7 was turned Into an FPS simply to support the launch of the PSVR It does not mean that It will stay an FPS for the rest of It's Installments.

[TeamIcoFan]

Mind passing me some of that salt? Need some to season my food.

[VsAssassin]

It's been a long time coming for Capcom to finally listen to their core fans, but this game is finally a testament to their rediscovered roots applied in a Resident Evil game. I am really pleased with this game!

[sdcard4gb]

Yeah... If only it wasn't First Person... You know, like every single horror game on the market.... Roots my ass.

[DeadlyOreo]

Yep. Roots.

[_-EDMIX-_]

I'm really excited to hear that this game out of the gate has been successful for Capcom.

I'm not sure it's going to move something crazy like 8 million units but I hope it sells enough to keep the company profitable cuz I really don't want to see them produce stuff like Resident Evil 5 or 6 ever again.

I know that it's probably unlikely that the series is going to reach those type of ridiculous sales but I hope this that this keeps capcom's Investments reasonable.

As much as I criticize this company's actions I still want to see them exist in the industry but they have to start being smart with their money.

Resident Evil 7 in my personal opinion was a very smart decision even though it's not going to sell like Resident Evil 5 or 6 at least it's not also go to risk the company going bankrupt.

[sk8ofmnd]

Congrats Capcom. I thought re7 was amazing

[DaFeelz]

Good. It's a great game and scary as hell in VR. Alright Capcom, 1 down and Dragon's Dogma to go!

[Yohshida]

Cant get myself to Support this game. Capcom just reached a new greed level, even outplaying ea on its own game. Offering the first dlc one week and the second dlc three weeks after launch just is cut Content. Plus flooding the market with rerereleases of every resident evil is just bad.

[sdcard4gb]

Just wait for them to crack it.

[DeadlyOreo]

Please stop.

[DeadlyOreo]

Nope. I bought RE7 and feel I definitely got my money's worth. No cut content here. I've already been playing this longer than Resident evil 1-3.

[sdcard4gb]

Okay, now we are condemned to be playing First-Person horror games for the rest of our lives... Good call, guys, good call...

[Derceto]

"Sell in means shipped to retailers + digital sales"

Nice try Crapcom. Taking lessons from SE on spinning numbers.

The actual sales figures should be nothing short of comical when they are released.

[DeadlyOreo]

Well. You're in for a shock. This game is hugely popular whether you want it to be or not.

[Smitty2020]

Where are the people that said the game won't do well lol

[TeamIcoFan]

They're furiously crying into their pillows right about now. ;D

[IamTylerDurden1]

Capcom nailed it with RE7. Playing in 4K HDR on PS4 Pro and in VR on PSVR are both spectacular experiences, hats off.

[TeamIcoFan]

Ugghhhhhhh, as much as I wanna play it now, I think I'm gonna hold off until I can get my hands on PSVR since so many are saying that, so long as you don't get motion sickness, it's the best way to play it!

May also have to stock up on clean underwear...

[Hroach616]

I'm fucking loving this game. After really not liking RE 5 and 6 it's good to enjoy playing this. Massive RE fan since the first one. I had been saying resident evil needed a reboot since 5 released. This soft reboot works pretty well. Nothing detracting so far but I haven't completed the game yet. Started a second profile playing in VR. I gotta say I'm impressed.
All around great game

[riibhu]

Congrats on the success. Capcom made resident evil great again. Now please Capcom make dmc great too.

[JMyers]

This is what happens when you make a horror game... please bring back Dead Space EA!

[TeamIcoFan]

Gonna have to disagree with you a bit since me personally I'd like to see a bad company 3 from EA/Dice first.
No hard feelings? :(

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Both would be amazing

[Jurat]

Is this 2.5m shipped to retail? Or actual units sold?

Have to say that this is my current favourite VR experience - I hope this spurs other big name devs to implement VR into their franchises.

[Auron]

Just imagine what Silent hills would of sold with all that free press it recieved! Stupid Konami...

[Batzi]

I am 4 hours in (VR), not only I think it's the best VR game available in the market, in my opinion it's the best RE game since RE3.

[solderman]

SHIPPED! not sold.

[PurpHerbison]

I'm starting to get more Resident Evil vibes as I progress which is nice. My only complaints right now are slightly fuzzy visuals and the FOV being entirely too close otherwise I think I would really enjoy 1st person. As of right now I still long for the fixed camera angles.

[ShaunCameron]

Fixed camera angles are so 1998.

[Hardiman]

We have been asking for years for Capcom to bring back the horror and boy have they delivered. I've been taking it slow and just taking it all in I believe I'm nearing the end and as soon as I finish I'm going back in on Madhouse difficulty.

[Exvalos]

See developers this is what happens when you take your time to put out quality and listen to your fans, others please take notes.

[Elvfam511]

The only reason Im not grtting it because after the demo I got super dizzy lol great demo got scared a couple of times.

[ShaunCameron]

Congratulations to a well-made game.