Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 7 has sold more than 5.1 million units worldwide on all platforms. In addition, Capcom revealed that Resident Evil 7 won the award for Best VR Audio at the 2018 Game Audio Network Guild Awards.
As the press release reads, G.A.N.G. Awards are selected by the game audio industry and members of the Game Audio Network Guild, and recognize achievements in game music and sound effects. Resident Evil 7 was judged against other VR games before winning the award for Best VR Audio, garnering praise for blending creativity with technological prowess via its use of extended technique with string instruments, sound effects recorded at the company’s Foley stage and by utilizing the Yamaha Corporation’s ViReal™ stereophonic sound technology.
Sound design on Resident Evil 7 made use of Capcom’s fully equipped Foley stage to produce sound effects that enhanced the characteristics of enemy characters as well as fear-inducing environmental sounds, and even in composing the game’s musical score. Capcom maintains its development environment at the cutting edge of technology in order to fulfill the company’s commitment to creating the world’s most entertaining games, a stance that lead to developing the REMM (Resident Evil Music Module), a proprietary audio tool that runs on Native Instruments’ Kontakt engine and allows for easier layering of tones and effect control. Further, Capcom is continuing to bolster the quality of its sound production, and in April of 2018 opened a second sound studio at its R&D headquarters in Osaka capable of recording and refining 3D audio.
It’s worth noting that the VR version of Resident Evil 7 is available exclusively on PS4. There were some rumours suggesting that this VR release would be exclusive for a year on Sony’s platform, however Capcom has not announced any plans to bring it to the PC.
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It’s worth noting that the VR version of Resident Evil 7 is available exclusively on PS4 🙁
Wasn’t sure if I should up or down vote that sad sad comment 🙁 🙁 🙁
Capcom used to be one of my favorite developers they have been whoring themselves to Sony so hard this generation I have been a little reluctant to purchase their games. Especially since they’re so DLC heavy also. I didn’t buy this one or M vs C infinite.
Precisely for why I’ve not bought the game.
I imagine Capcom will bring the VR support to PC, but knowing them it’ll either be botched or come at a cost.
That said I was never interested in this Resi title, I’m more concerned on waiting for REmake 2, so not playing 7 and not having VR support doesn’t matter to me.
Well it is a good game. Had a good time. Those that haven’t played it and like horror/tense games should play it.
5.1M copies sold.. meanwhile PC version is 0.5M.. pcpiraterace ftw
So ? Got a problem ?
Hello Kim!
is that bullshit or is there a source? That’s a pretty shocking ratio.
steam spy
558k on Steam. Could have sold more on Windows store though doubtful. It’s not shocking at all. The core audience for RE is on console and always has been and, considering they never released CVX on PC and RE4 was a god awful port by Ubisoft (which they didn’t atone for until URE4HD where they ported the 360 version nearly 10 years later), and RE5 had GFWL and Gold didn’t come out for 6 years on PC, it’s expected. Also PC gaming is dominated by poors, children, and whiners. So they’re not buying anything unless it;s $1, and even then it’s too much.
You’ve also got the fact that Capcom repeatedly lied and betrayed the RE audience for 20 years. I had no intention of buying it but I did so on release day, on a chance, and love it.
And last and probably least, they peeved a lot of AMD losers because they said Phenom IIs and older weren’t supported, but then they patched the demo to support them. Then the full game didn’t, and their PR response was “The specs say it’s not supported.” and so they had to patch it again.
There was also a concerted troll effort to review bomb the game by a lot of punks on Steam forums and reddit, the same as with Wolfenstein TNC, with a lot of these pieces of sh*t flooding the forums and reviews crying about how it’s “Not a true RE game, it’s not original, Silent Hill, PT ripoff, TCM ripoff ” etc etc. None of which was true. It was without question the best REAL RE game since RE2.
funny thing is the latest version has not been cracked. I guess people dont want to buy a horror game for 60 bucks on pc with so many too choose from. Because 5 and 6 have sold over a million.
KKW got a new account huh?
Indeed. He had another account before being KKW, too.
Probably still not enough for you, CAPCOM, huh ?
They should be, lower your costs.
They said last Jan that they expected the game to sell 10 million units, I think. Or 6. Either way, it’s going to underperform and so they’re going to ruin the franchise a 90th time.
Most AAA games do not sell 5+ million. Especially not within 1 year. The only games that ever have are Skyrim, Fallout, CoD and Battlefield, Uncharted and TLOU.
That’s a decidedly incomplete list! GTA V, which you haven’t mentioned, has sold over 90 million units. There are a host of other AAA games you’ve not mentioned that have sold over 5 million units… unless you’re insisting on having a particularly narrow personal definition of what a ‘AAA’ game is. Those two Sony console games you’ve mentioned don’t even rank in the Top 50 best-selling games.
I suggest you learn English.
I said most. I meant most. There may be 154 examples of games that did sell 5 – 120 million. That’s still a tiny fraction of AAA games.
I suggest you learn English.
You said “The only games that ever have are Skyrim, Fallout, CoD and Battlefield, Uncharted and TLOU.”
Welp, then perhaps AAA should get back down to earth with their expectations.
Welp, good thing you are a nobody who can’t choose for us what the series should look like. Go play some more of RE6, you deserve it.
Enjoy your asthma simulator.
NOT ENOUGH NEEDS MORE SALES
Capcom propably.
Probably. That would be EA though.
Yea how about you bring that VR where it belongs, on PC.
You don’t need to change the FOV. And RE5 and 6 are absolutely terrible.
You literally don’t. Grow up. You haven’t played RE, you don’t know what you’re talking about, and you’re wrong.
Yea no you don’t know what you’re talking about.
The gameplay is 100% Resident Evil. It’s RE1 and 2, in first person.
There’s literally less than 20 minutes of “cinematic bs” in a game that realistically takes 10 hours to beat the main campaign the first time.
As much as I enjoyed all Far Cry games Its a bit sad to know that this kind of bold experimentation with the RE IP that gave us a fantastic game sold in its current life time as much as Ubisofts rehearsed formula did in one week , both being great games in their own field
My sentiments exactly.
The low FOV was a deal-breaker for me as well. Capcom’s insistence that they had to take away standard PC gaming options for our own good, as otherwise we’d miss out on their cinematic experience, was a slap in the face.