Capcom announced today that Resident Evil 7, originally released in 2017, has now sold over 10 million copies.
While there aren’t any specific data breakdowns on how many copies went to what system, this sales milestone makes Resident Evil 7 Capcom’s second best-selling game ever, behind only Monster Hunter World, which has sold 17.3 million units.
This also makes Resident Evil 7 the first Resident Evil title to hit such a sales marker without including remakes, remasters, or re-releases, as has happened to most early Resident Evil titles.
Resident Evil 7’s follow-up, this year’s Resident Evil Village, is on track to do just as well if not better in due time. Village sold 4.5 million copies in its first two months.
Such hair-raising profits come from Resident Evil 7’s impressive reinvention of what was at the time a long-in-the-tooth, meandering horror franchise. After Resident Evil 6 struggled under the weight of the series’ lore and an overabundance of action game tropes, Capcom reset the series and retooled it for the first-person perspective. Clearly the new approach has paid off.
Resident Evil 7 is available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
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