After 15 Years, Resident Evil 5 Has Finally Been Dethroned as The Series' Best-Selling Game

After 15 years, Resident Evil 5 is nary longer the highest-selling introduction successful Capcom's endurance fearfulness series, the steadfast has revealed.

New income figures for the Resident Evil franchise amusement its income crown has present been taken by the Resident Evil 2 remake, which has present shifted 19.75 cardinal copies — capable to gaffe past Resident Evil 5's last full of 19.01 million.

These totals are absorbing for respective reasons. Firstly, the information that Resi 5's income person taken a decennary and a fractional to topple says a batch astir the immense excitement for that crippled erstwhile it initially arrived — riding connected the overgarment tails of the beloved archetypal Resi 4, contempt yet being judged arsenic obscurity adjacent arsenic good.

Secondly, these totals amusement that the Resident Evil series' backmost catalogue continues to merchantability really well. Capcom's Resident Evil 2 remake launched backmost successful 2019 and is intelligibly inactive shifting copies (and has apt benefited from the consequent launches of different Leon S. Kennedy-starring titles specified arsenic the Resi 4 remake and Resident Evil Requiem).

Speaking of the Resi 4 remake and Requiem, you mightiness wonderment wherever their income are successful each of this. Well, they are inactive selling brilliantly, excessively — and whitethorn yet some eclipse Resident Evil 2 to go the franchise's apical sellers, fixed capable time.

Resident Evil Requiem has present sold 8 cardinal copies, a fig that volition undoubtedly emergence acold further arsenic the crippled gets discounted implicit clip and receives its highly-anticipated post-launch expansion. Resident Evil 4's remake, meanwhile, is present connected an awesome 16 cardinal copies sold.

All combined, the Resident Evil franchise has present sold a combined 213 cardinal copies crossed each of its games — a fig which sees it borderline past the 212 cardinal full income of Square Enix's Final Fantasy franchise, though these person not yet been updated for this fiscal quarter.

Other Capcom games selling good see caller franchise Pragmata (now up to 2.51 cardinal copies sold) and Monster Hunter: World which has present sold an astonishing 30.45 cardinal copies.

Next up for the Resident Evil franchise is the motorboat of Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie connected September 16, earlier the accomplishment of Resident Evil Veronica sometime successful 2027.

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