Resident Evil 4 remake is fastest selling entry with 10 million sales
Capcom's Resident Evil 4 remake has become the fastest selling entry in the entire franchise, as attention turns towards the whereabouts of the next entry.
Monster Hunter: World might be Capcom's highest-selling game ever (likely to be overtaken by the more recent Monster Hunter Wilds) but the Resident Evil franchise is still its best-selling IP overall.
This has been reinforced in updated sales numbers from Capcom and it's particularly good news for 2023's Resident Evil 4. The remake has officially sold over 10 million units worldwide since it launched, which is a one million increase from January this year.
According to Capcom, this is the fastest any title in the series has hit this milestone, so it's very possible it could become the best-selling entry ever down the line.
Currently, the highest-selling entries are Resident Evil 2 remake and Resident Evil 7, which have now both sold more than 15 million units each. Resident Evil Village, meanwhile, has surpassed 11 million sales, while Resident Evil 3 remake has sold over 10 million, after five years.
As of December 31, 2024, the Resident Evil series has sold more than 167 million units in total, with Monster Hunter, which only became popular in the West relatively recently, on 108 million.
Capcom has already confirmed more remakes are on the way, with rumours suggesting the next one will be Resident Evil Zero.
While the company has only announced ports of Street Fighter 6 and Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess for the Switch 2 so far, it feels inevitable that Resident Evil 4 remake will eventually make its way to the system – which will likely spike sales even further. More Trending
The previous remakes, Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3, along with Resident Evil 7 and Village, were all released on the original Switch in cloud versions, while many of the original games, including the OG Resident Evil 4, are available on the Nintendo eShop.
Capcom officially announced Resident Evil 9 last year, to be led by Resident Evil 7 director Koshi Nakanishi, but nothing has been said or shown of the game so far.
There are rumours it will be open world, to some degree, using technology from Dragon's Dogma 2, and will mark a 'big reinvention' for the series akin to Resident Evil 7 – which shifted the horror to a first person perspective for the first time.
While Capcom has given no indication of when it could be revealed, many fans suspect the first trailer will be shown at some point this year – with the most likely venue being Summer Game Fest on June 6. Or perhaps one of the standalone not-E3 showcases from either Xbox or PlayStation.
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