Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 remake has offered extra copies than another title within the horror franchise’s 27-year historical past, after passing 12.6 million cumulative lifetime gross sales throughout console and PC.
Earlier this week Capcom up to date its gross sales report for the 114 ‘platinum’ titles’ the corporate has created all through the years which have offered by way of a million items. The brand new record, which takes under consideration video games offered up till the June 30 cutoff, revealed that Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 remake has now offered over 12.6 million items since its Januray 2019 launch.
12.6 million gross sales is sufficient to place the remake on the prime of the franchise’s best-seller record, dethroning the earlier report holder Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, which has offered 12.4 million copies Within the six years since its January 2017 launch.
It additionally made the Resident Evil 2 remake the third best-selling sport within the historical past of the corporate, with solely 2021’s Monster Hunter Rise (13.2 million items), and 2018’s Monster Hunter World (19 million items) surpassing its report.
Resident Evil 2 benefitted from a free ‘next-gen’ (now current-gen) console improve, and an improved PC model again in June final yr, which introduced a variety of upgrades to the horror expertise, together with 4K help, greater frame-rates, ray-tracing, and the implementation of 3D audio. Nonetheless, Capcom was compelled to offer an possibility for gamers to roll these upgrades again on PC, after the group reacted negatively to the upper system necessities, and efficiency points attributable to the brand new model of the sport.
In IGN’s 9/10 overview we lauded the satisfying fight and horrifying ambiance showcased in Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil 2, whereas concluding that the title “establishes a brand new commonplace for remaking traditional video games”.
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