Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 7 has sold 4 million copies worldwide. However, and while the PC port is arguably a great one, the Resident Evil 7 PC sales are not that strong. According to SteamSpy, the game sold around 500K copies on the PC platform.
What’s really funny here is that Resident Evil 7 the worst performing – sales wise – Resident Evil game on the PC. The game is even behind Resident Evil Revelations, the HD remaster of the first Resident Evil, as well as both Resident Evil 5 and 6.
Truth be told, the game still sits at 49,99€ so we don’t know how things will change once Capcom starts offering it at lower prices. A big discount may also boost overall PC sales. After all, October is the perfect month for such an offer.
Contrary to previous Resident Evil games, Resident Evil 7 is a first-person horror survival title. Resident Evil 7. And even though it did not meet Capcom’s sales expectations, it did recoup its development cost.
Resident Evil 7 will receive a free DLC, Not a Hero, on December 12th!
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Shame… it’s a good game.
How is this bad?
The article specifically stated how it’s one of the worst selling PC versions of RE to date. Way to read the article bro. Ignorance is curable you know?
Its a new game, RE5 came ages ago. The price is high.
blame it on pirate like durka durka
It’s a good game. I really liked it, had fun all along and it’s beautiful/smooth. For people who likes the genre, it’s worth.
Wasn’t it marked down for a little while this past summer? I think around half price. Maybe not, but I bet it will be marked down on the Steam Winter Sale.
Good game.They lost thousands of sales by not including the VR version on PC. The VR market is dying for full fledged AAA titles.
I’m a VR nut but I’m not hyped for a VR port that’s made as an aside or bullet point for the “main” game. Now, if a horror game was made FOR VR from the outset where you use motion controls to naturally interact with the environment by turning door knobs, pulling out shelves, pushing on objects, .etc, then I’d be interested.
Many refused to buy it because it used Denuvo.
Or perhaps they’re just being rational people and waiting for a price drop, like myself.
or the are pirate like durka durka and pirate the s`!t out of it
Probably that. They are why we can’t have nice things.
Waiting for a price drop is the rational thing ? You’re the reason single player games are a dying breed. Have fun in a future where all you can play are multiplayer games with microtransactions everywhere You’ll get value for your money then.
I think you misunderstood. I was stating that dodging a game because of Dunuvo, a DRM that literally has no affect on anyone or anything anywhere, especially after it’s inevitable removable, is silly.
I was also stating that based on sales, most people are probably a bit hessitant to jump into a game from the RE creators after their last couple of duds. For 20-30 bucks, it’s worth trying it out, but not at 60.
I have no issue paying full price for a game I know I’ll like, but this…I’m uncertain.
Indie games are a thing.
blah blah blah they are just pirate and piece of s`1T more excuses from pirates
That and no VR support is why I didn’t personally buy it. I won’t be until they implement VR either.
As someone who owned a Vive, really good horror in VR is practically irresponsible and dangerous. lol That’s kind of a compliment, though, because good horror in VR is beyond terrifying.
Yeah well pc gamers at times can feel like the neglected step child. If was released on PlayStation VR, then it was released specifically without it for pc, which has had VR longer anyway. I refuse to support them for that alone either way, besides it would be fun to watch people freak out in VR with it lol.
Are you hyped for Pimax VR?
I’m not, for one it could be vaporware. I know uploadVR played with it , but the thing is to run the thing the hardware isn’t there yet gpu wise. I think it is brilliant to be about to use your actual hands in VR. Thing is though is that this Kickstarter can’t compete with coporate giants already in the space. i think they’re trying to get purchased more than anything else. I may get the WMR samsung HMD though. I have a Vive currently you can run two games on the same pc with both HMDS I noticed and that is pretty cool
Pimax is already selling VR hardware, actually. They’re not an upstart company.
I’ve spoken to half a dozen people I trust that personally demo’d the Pimax and say that it’s the best headset on the market. I was skeptical at first but now it’s on my must-buy list for when the 8K version becomes commercially available around April.
oh really? I thought they only announced prices. Well we will see the thing looks massive, there is nothing to out to push anything with good quality in 8k that is really affordable you would be doing 4x gtx 1080 TI GPUs then there is support that is another gray area. It looks cool but I don’t think there is anything out that can push 8K at 90fps atm.
No, Pimax has actually been selling VR HMDs for awhile so they have experience in shipping product. They just needed funding for their 5K and 8K models.
Surprisingly, the current V3 of Pimax is LIGHTER than Vive(589gm to Vive’s 725gms, approx.).
And it’s not really “8K”, which is more of a marketing thing. Pimax should call their headset the “4K Duo” or something because it’s really just two 4K screens, not two 8K screens. It’s still a MASSIVE improvement over what we currently have, though. The people I talked to said the Pimax 8K was deceptively light, the expanded FOV ruined other headsets for them; they can’t go back to Rift/Vive, and the resolution makes reading text extremely easy. It’s also modular and compatible with any SteamVR controllers.
You could run a Pimax 8K on a 1080/1080Ti; still a beast rig, but high-end VR is always going to cost more.
I’ll do some more reading on it then. I was interested in WMR because they do away with the sensors, which means I can easily take it to a friend’s instead of breaking down my vive setup. I have a desktop with a 1070 and a laptop with a 1070. I may upgrade to a TI on my desktop if I do i’ll look to pimax then if they have a marketable product.
If by many you mean 1% of PC players who even care or know what denuvo is.
Has anti-consumer Capcom released the timed-exclusive VR mode on PC yet?
Unless they integrated full motion control support and roomscale, I wouldn’t care. The PSVR version is seated/controller/face-forward and I can’t think of anything less immersive than that.
I’d rather have the option of playing a “seated/controller/face-forward” VR mode than no VR at all. Roomscale isn’t a huge deal for me.
I’d think of that more like a 3D game and not really “VR”. Sitting face-forward with a gamepad in your hand isn’t VR; it’s just 3D gaming.
For me, VR means that your body is translated into a virtual space, but you interact with that space the same way you do the real world, hence “virtual reality”. Unless you’re Professor X in a bubble chair with mechanical arms, you don’t click a button to open a shelf; you reach out with your real hand and open the shelf.
We have 3D gaming now and it is the exact same thing as flat gaming… only you wear a peripheral on your face.
True VR is orders of magnitude better than 3D gaming. I’d rather have nothing at all rather than an afterthought of a “VR” port trying to capitalize on what Capcom probably thinks is a gimmick.
I don’t disagree with you there albeit the definitions of the two terms mentioned will naturally be subjective.
For instance, playing the likes of racing games and space combat sims when displayed in VR is a far more immersive experience than playing them when displayed on a monitor (with compatible GPU) featuring stereoscopic 3D. Racing games in VR may be a sit-down/face-forward experience but they mostly also allow for head movement on three concurrent axis in addition to providing 3D depth perception.
Playing racing games and space combat sims in VR is a transformative experience. That of Forza Motorsport 7 lacking a VR mode was a complete deal-breaker for me. That of categorising them as being merely “3D gaming” is to greatly undersell the experience, in my opinion.
I’m certainly not denying that RE7 would benefit from the option of roomscale VR but, for me at least, I’d be happy enough to be playing in VR without it. That said, I prefer the sit-down VR experience because roomscale, despite its obvious advantages, can sometimes feel like one is exercising at the gym! I prefer to relax when playing games rather than getting physically tired out like was the case when having to vigorously waggle and swing the Wii Remote in certain Wii games.
You might honestly be the dumbest person here. 3D gaming vs flat, rofl. You interact with both of your definitions the same way, so there’s no distinction – it would be “flat” gaming.
Enjoy watching your 30 year old fad die a pointless and delayed death, again.
If you think your fat a$$ is going to be playing video games on a mouse/keyboard while looking at a TV in 30 years, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Flat gaming has been one 40-year tech demo leading to virtual reality. A necessary stepping stone. A necessary series of contrivances.
Sitting in one place and clicking physical buttons to play games started to die the minute the first smartphone was released. In 20 years, kids will use gamepads the way people nowadays use typewriters.
Small-minded, no vision-having dummies cannot fathom that their old way of interacting with technology is going to go the way of flip phones and board games. You’ll be buried with your dumb keyboard and mouse. lol
i dont get why people like the hand motion vr YOU CANT MOVE. To me vr would be playing any fps with a headset on, i dont care about the rest.
That’s really 3D gaming, not VR. If you’re not mimicking the movements of your in-experience avatar, it’s not really virtual reality. The main attribute of VR is translating as much of yourself into a digital substrate as possible. That’s why it’s called VIRTUAL REALITY. In the real world(reality) we use our bodies to interact with the environment; it’s what convinces us of the legitimacy of our experiences.
Flat gaming relies on contrived control schemes like gamepads and mouse+keyboard because those interfaces were the best we could do–until now. True VR is really just going back to natural interactions, as it should be.
Unless you’re a paraplegic that uses a gamepad to translate around the real world, using that method of interaction in a virtual would wouldn’t be considered “virtual reality”.
I cannot grasp why people are so married to body-to-computer interface contrivances we’ve only needed for the last 30-40 years when we’ve used our bodies to interact with physical systems for over 100,000 years(as early proto-humans).
True VR just makes contrived controls irrelevant and redundant.
Don’t forget that PS4 version was everywhere.
Added to bundles,vr crap etc.
– PS4 Bundle
– PS4 Pro Bundle
– PS4 VR
– PS4 VR Bundle
– PS4/Pro Separately
Flat gaming is a joke compared to VR.
don’t forgot the pirates who torrented the game
As a lifelong PC gamer, I had no interest in it, but then again I never cared for any RE games.
This is false. Shipped DOES NOT MEAN Sold !!!
yep. DSO is sleepinng today.
Shipped or sold capcom got their money either way. The rest is retailer’s problem.
Retailers sell them back to Capcom if they won’t sell to consumers.
Its shiped sales. Not sold.
that’s like 12.5% from total sales. no fight to consoles at all. what a shame.
Copies shipped does not mean sold, the game is 49.99 if other horror games are doing well you might wanna find out why. Prey sold the most on pc and so did cuphead.
Prey did not sell the most on PC. It only sold 400,000 copies on PC. If it did, though, Prey would have sold the most on PC because it’s a shock-like whose core fans are all on PC. Cuphead sold on PC because it’s the best place for platformers.
blame it on pirates like durka durka and other on this site
if you pirate you are a piece of s~h`t
Piracy is for the unemployed and broke students with the time on their hands. I used to do it in those circumstances. As a responsible adult however I don’t do it. If I want the game I will buy it, if it is too expensive I will wait for discounts.
Pirates don’t buy anything. Not really lost sales.
I ignored it because it was first person. We already have games in first person like Outlast etc.
The other thing is no return of any major resident evil characters. Which is bg minus for resident evil fans. Atleasllt for me.
They should have released the game with different name and it would have sold better.
I am sure they can use the Sony money to recoup the shortage of pc sales for the exclusive VR content.
Long story short they expected 10 million lifetime sales, they’re halfway there, and they’re not going to get closer until the rest of the DLC comes out.
And they’re unrealistically expecting this game to match the sales of RE4, 5, and 6, which took YEARS to sell 7.5 million to 10 million copies. It’s been 9 months. Gtfo, Capcom. They’re ALSO ignoring that 4, ,5, and 6 all got re-released. RE4 had 9 different releases – PC, PC, GC, PS2, PS3, PS4, Wii, Xbox 360, Xbox One.
Not to mention as someone said, Capcom has repeatedly lied to us for 10 years now. They said RE6 would go back to roots, and it was the *worst* game yet. It was the most action Call of Gears of Evil game yet; with offensively bad dialog that lampooned the game and even pointed out how crappy and unlike RE it was (“This is just like Raccoon City!” ring a bell? Every 3 seconds in the first 2 chapters of Leon’s game. It was nothing like Raccoon City, unless you mean the game ORC, which was trash); awful narrative structure on the level of Lost or FF13; straight up third person shooter gameplay; way too much kung fu, etc.
So, no one can be blamed except Capcom, when people finally decided to stop giving them a chance. I did and I’m glad I irrationally changed my mind at the last second because I actually really like RE7 and applaud them for doing something right, for the first time since REmake. Not to mention they keep playing bs exclusivity games – this time with the VR support, and, PC was never a strong Resident Evil fan base anyway. The people may be, like me, but we have always been the last priority for Capcom. It took 12 years to get REmake on PC, as well as 0, it took 9 years to get a non-trash version of RE4, we still don’t have CVX HD, and RE1 through 3 are 90s relics that need to be repackaged and re-released on PC.
They also need to understand that at least 60% of the RE fan base are RE4 fangirls who don’t actually like the real games, or otherwise people who just want to see Chris and Leon and Ada, over and over and over every single time. So if you make a real Resident Evil game, like RE7, those people aren’t going to be as happy.