Global Resident Evil Village sales have surpassed 8 million copies, publisher Capcom has announced.
The publisher announced the game’s global sales numbers on Twitter today. “Resident Evil Village has just surpassed 8 million units sold”, the tweet reads. “We owe this to all of our amazing fans. Thank you so much!”
Resident Evil Village, or Resident Evil VIII as some call it, launched worldwide in May 2021 for PC and consoles. In July 2021, Capcom reported that over 4.5 million copies of the game were shipped globally. In January 2022, the publisher announced that the game managed to have sold over 5.7 million copies in less than 9 months, thereby becoming the fastest-selling installment in the Resident Evil series. Last year, we wrote that global sales of the game exceeded 6.1 million copies worldwide after Capcom sold roughly 400.000 additional copies in only three months. Fast forward one year and Capcom now reports that it managed to sell 2 million additional copies of its horror title – impressive for sure.
Here’s what we wrote about Resident Evil Village in our 2021 launch review:
“Resident Evil Village picks up with Ethan and Mia Winters now living a life of relative domestic bliss in Europe with their new baby daughter Rose”, our very own Nathan Birch wrote. “Ethan is having trouble forgetting the horrors of the Baker compound, but otherwise, everything seems to be going well – until Chris Redfield shows up, pops a half-dozen caps in Mia over the Winters’ dinner table, and kidnaps Ethan and Rose. Unfortunately (Or fortunately?) Chris’s mysterious scheme goes awry somehow and Ethan awakens alone on the outskirts of a very messed up village overrun by werewolves, vampires, sea monsters, creepy dolls, and other assorted horrors. Ethan doesn’t know what’s going on, but he does know he’s going to get his daughter back.
He added, “Resident Evil Village kicks things off in style, with the game’s intro delivering plenty of mystery, solid character moments, and tension. From there, Capcom weaves a gloriously campy, overheated, Hammer-Horror-meets-Cronenberg epic. Without giving anything away, Village serves up plenty of twists that not only tie the game to the greater RE mythos in interesting ways but challenge what you thought you knew about the world of Resident Evil Village and RE7 before it. No, this isn’t The Last of Us, the story is not high art, but it’s one of the most enjoyable RE yarns to date in its own goofy way.”
Resident Evil Village is available globally now for PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One.
