Resident Evil 4 Remake reaches over 9 million units sold worldwide – Where’s the next game in the series?

Resident Evil 4 Remake, the most recent entry in the iconic survival horror series, was undoubtedly one of the best and most successful games of 2023. Curiously enough, Capcom just confirmed that this title is still doing quite well sales-wise, even more than a year after its initial release.

Via the official Capcom Dev 1 Twitter/X account, the company revealed that, as of December 19, 2024, Resident Evil 4 Remake has sold over 9 million units worldwide and thanked the 9 million-plus agents (players) for their support. This announcement came with a brand-new, beautiful illustration of some of the game’s antagonists, like Ada Wong, Jack Krauser, Bitores Méndez and Ramón Salazar, playing bingo together.

This new milestone means that Resident Evil 4 Remake is slowly but surely catching up to other incredibly successful games in the series in terms of worldwide sales, including the one that came right before it, 2021’s Resident Evil Village, which hit 10 million units sold in 3 years, and the original Resident Evil 4, which achieved 13.20 million units sold across many platforms during the mid-2000s. Considering that everyone who experienced this survival horror/action masterpiece ended up loving it, there’s no doubt that Resident Evil 4 Remake is going to become one of the best-selling Resident Evil games in the near future.

What’s next after Resident Evil 4 Remake?

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The reveal of the new sales figures for Resident Evil 4 Remake was both surprising and exciting, but it has also left many fans wondering what the next game in the series is going to be and when Capcom might announce it. After all, the company has been consistently pumping out new Resident Evil titles over the last few years, so 2025 seems like the perfect year to reveal (and maybe even release) another one.

It’s important to remember that Capcom has already announced that a new game directed by Koshi Nakanishi (Director of Resident Evil 7) is currently in development. We don’t know much about this project, but it’s very likely that this is going to become Resident Evil 9, or however the company decides to name the follow-up to Resident Evil Village. However, it may take a long time for this game to come out, so it’s always possible that Capcom will try to release other projects before that.

For example, we may also get more remakes before the next mainline entry, and some ideas floating around in the fan base right now include a remake of Resident Evil 5, a polarizing entry from 2009 that never lived up to its predecessor, a remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica, considered by many to be the real third entry in the franchise, or a dual remake of both Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil 0. Regardless of what Capcom ends up going for, I’m sure that it’s going to have the same high quality as all of its recent Resident Evil projects, and it’s also going to sell millions of units worldwide.

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