Capcom today announced that worldwide shipments of Resident Evil 7, the latest installment in the Resident Evil franchise, have surpassed 2.5 million units. Do note that this does not mean that the game has sold 2.5 million units.
The Resident Evil franchise features survival horror games in which players utilize a variety of weapons and other items to escape terrifying situations. Cumulative sales of the games in the series now total 75 million units since the first title debuted in 1996.
Resident Evil 7 is the latest installment, and builds upon the series’ roots of fear, exploration and tense atmosphere. In order to provide an overwhelming, deeply immersive horror experience, the game’s system underwent a dramatic shift from its previous third-person camera to a new first-person perspective.
Furthermore, the title garnered attention worldwide, with the demo version exceeding 7.15 million downloads—a record for the series—and the game shipping more than 2.5 million units.
The PC version of Resident Evil 7 appears to be running well on a variety of systems, and you can read our PC Performance Analysis here.
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You know what! Most of my hate for this game has waned down. It’s actually great, they made the lack of cheese work and it feels like the first Resident Evil.. ..remaster. Not a fan of the first person camera, but it works for this game. I just hope they don’t do it for RE2 remake, regardless ‘this’ is quite good for what it is.
Boooooooooo you! 😛
I didn’t listen to the hate a got a rebate and bought it 45$CAN. Haven’t had the time to enjoy it yet but if it is anything like the demo, i’m in for brown pants no doubt.
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so it was done right this time. capcom should listen to the series audience since the very beginning instead try to make gears of cover clone. though i do hope they fully reboot the series so they don’t need to tied it up with the previous series story.
It’s “better”, yes, but it’s not LEGENDARY! though, no.
In the end, it’ll go down well, but not RE4 levels of “awesomeness.”
i like RE4 for what it is. but that game is the start for the series to be more action oriented. when it comes to RE i still like RE3 the most.
Such a shame to see this anti-consumer videogame reportedly selling well.
Anti consumer?
Capcom having taken Sony’s money to bar everyone but Sony console gamers from the game’s VR mode for a whole year.
Right, but the thing is, what is the percentage of, PC and PS4 players, that own a expensive VR headset that can make use of a optional feature?
And how is it anti consumer that a really small user base isn’t getting a optional feature (for a limited time), when the majority of consumers don’t or can’t, or simply won’t care about said feature.
Hey, I’m all for things not being exclusive, it is absolute sh*t, but we’re not talking about essentials here, and it is not like you need it day one.
And let’s not forget that VR still on taking baby steps, still expensive and Capcom isn’t nowhere near a good form.
The percentage of users and also the price of VR headsets is irrelevant. Capcom have deliberately barred all PC gamers with a VR device from playing said mode for a whole year in exhange for Sony’s money. That is anti-consumer, whichever way you wish to spin it.
Of course it is. There’s different types of consumers.
Of course it’s not.
Indeed there are. There are those who support such business practices due to ignorance or simply not giving a damn and there are those who vote with our wallets by not supporting such anti-consumer business practices.
Again, Capcom have deliberately barred all PC gamers with a VR device from playing said mode for a whole year in exhange for Sony’s money. That is anti-consumer, whichever way you wish to spin it.
What’d be really funny is if some bright spark manages to get the PC version running with Oculus Rift/HTC Vive and makes the mod freely available to download long before Capcom officially bequeathes us with said mode once their anti-consumer business deal with Sony has expired.
OMG, those poor people that can’t possibly wait a year, pay less for a game and still have a optional feature that the majority of people don’t care about.
Also, “those who support such business practices” , apparently the game is good, VR or not.
They are supporting the game being good, not a optional feature.
Yet more irrelevant points mentioned in reply by you. To repeat once more because it’s evidently not sinking in:
Capcom have deliberately barred all PC gamers with a VR device
from playing said mode for a whole year in exhange for Sony’s money.
That is anti-consumer, whichever way you wish to spin it.
lol, ok chum, tell that to the consumers having fun with it.
Another irrelance to add the laundry list of irrelevancies.
Yep, the majority of consumers are irrelevant.
Another irrelance to add the laundry list of irrelevancies.
Once more, Capcom have deliberately barred all PC gamers with a VR device from playing said mode for a whole year in exhange for Sony’s money. That is anti-consumer, whichever way you wish to spin it.
Do carry on trying to spin things as though you’re a corporate apologist…
“They are being anti consumer because they took money to develop and make a feature for non-standard consumers exclusive for a limited time”
But hey, I’m a corporate apologist so what do I know?
Excellent. We both agree that you’re being a corporate apologist.
Totally, it is what makes more sense. No one can argue against that, no sir.
Reasoning and context? Get out of here!
Indeed. You presented a laundry list of irrelevancies so no valid argument was presented. Glad we agree once more.
Yes, your arguments where totally valid based on you masters degree of bullshitery, can’t beat that. I was totally rekt.
Well done you for having continually embarrassed yourself in this non-debate.
Oh dear me! How can I possibly live with myself without the approval of my opinions by completely random people on the internet?
You can’t?
Oh goody, is this the part where you suicide?
*Grabs the popcorn & lube*
ROCK ON, MAN! 😀
Goodbye cruel world!
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You know, I generally do agree with the argument that console bribes for timed exclusiveness = anti-consumer practices, but holy f*ck you’re just copy/pasting the same paragraph over & over?
Wow, that’s sad.
Other than that; yes, it’s anti-consumer, so-the-f*ck what? VR is a fad, & Sony’s trying to make as much money from it as possible before people get bored of it & move on. Just be grateful they didn’t bribe them enough to keep the entire game as a PS4-exclusive for the next 12 months.
If you ask me, that in itself is a small miracle, really. Also, like 7th said, it’s a ridiculously optional feature that most people don’t even give a f*ck about, not some “must have” PC gaming thing that everyone expects a PC game to have, like, say a FoV slider.
With the 800 euros a VR headset costs i can buy a 6 core cpu with 16 gb ddr 4 3600 mhz or a GTX 1080. Why waste money to buy VR? My pc as it is now(i5 2500k gtx 970 12 gb ram) can run a game like RE7 inVR but you know what? I dont care at all about it. My 24”1440p 60 hz ips monitor has amazing graphics in all games on max settings already as it is now. Why waste my money on soemthing that most games dont use instead of buying new gpu or cpu and ram since this is much more important than VR for games? And that what iam going to do: On March i will buy Amd ryzen 6 or 8 core with new motherboard and ram for about 800 euros. Not even 5% of pc and ps4 gamers own vr headsets
They don’t owe you shi. They don’t have to ever release it on pc for VR if they don’t want to.
7.15 million downloads but only 2.5 million units shipped :
1- The game is not good ?
2- people dislike Denuvo ?
3- There is something else ?
its
4- Not everybody’s cup of tea
2 million shipped includes pc and console retail copies
Most pc gamers buy from steam nt retail
It is a horror game a genre that most of us dont like(that why i havent bought it yet and iam waiting for sale) But i would had bought it day one if it was action like re5 and 6 or if it was a fps or action adventure or hack n slash or a fighter you know a genre that i like to play! But because i know ti is game i will not enjoy i am waiting for sale.
Actually Horror sells just fine. Yes, it sells less than Call of Duty Game #26, but it still generates good numbers, assuming the game itself is good.
Resident Evil doesn’t have much of a positive reputation amongst its fans in recent releases, & even this one is a little bit…… Well, it’s not quite RE4 v2, so it’ll pick up some speed with time, but it won’t be hailed as the next LEGENDARY! Horror game, that’s true.
check steamspy.. 100K copies sold on steam only. shows how PC gamers are so peanuts compared to 2.4M console gamers.
4 – The Demo was free, & didn’t require a pre-order to download (did it?).
This isn’t.
AAA games sell more on console PC peasant
Not really, no, unless it’s by an unpopular publisher, or a newly-PC-ported franchise. Generally, the PC amounts to about 1/3rd of total AAA sales.
Its worth the money i’m sure i hope people didn’t forget about this series all together just over how terrible 6 and 5 was.
“Shipped”
The f*ck does “shipped” even mean these days, considering how many people buy digital downloads? Are those numbers included, or are they completely irrelevant to the amount of copies “shipped” (i.e. physically transported across the globe to various distributors &/or retailers)?
No, seriously, in theory, they shouldn’t be included, but these days the English language is constantly getting aped by people & corporations both purposefully & accidentally using words in a wrong manner in order to [insert] that I really can’t tell, anymore.
Yeah it’s kind of ridiculous, like a lag between the bean counters and reality. I knew for a while they didn’t used to include digital downloads at all in thier numbers. Much like TV ratings didn’t take into account people watching via internet streams, or political polls only called people with land lines. The “Olds” need to get with the information age :p
Guess it’s selling well then, since now steamspy lists 150k units sold only 9 hours after your comment.
Also, read the article, shipped units does not equal sold units.